William Julius Wilson is the William T. Grant Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he holds the John J. McCloy Chair in Urban Economics. He also is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control Policy at the university's Kennedy School of Government, and teaches at both institutions
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He was elected president of the American Sociological Association in 1998, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Wilson has received honorary degrees from several universities around the world, including Oxford (D.Litt.), Georgetown (D.Sc.), Yale (D.Sc.), Cambridge (D.Phil.), Amherst (LL.D.), and Wesleyan (LL.D.).