| November 30, 1999 |
Dalton Conley, the author of Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety, is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of the Social Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University. He also holds appointments at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, as an Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In 2005, he became the first sociologist to win the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award. Previous books have included Being Black, Living in the Red; Honky; The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances; and The Pecking Order.
His work has also appeared in Salon.com, Feed Magazine and other media outlets. He has written several op-ed pieces for the New York Times and is frequently interviewed for articles on race, family, and socioeconomic status.
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