W. Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

W. Allison Davis was a pioneering anthropologist and professor at the University of Chicago where, in 1942, he became the first African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university. Professor Davis devoted his life to studying systems of stratification and segregation between and within racial and ethnic groups in the United States. He was committed to rigorous inquiry documenting the effects of social stratification and segregation on family life, language use, educational attainment and the development of personality and character of children and adolescents in American minority groups. He aimed at discovering social policies and practices that promised to promote the healthy development of all children and youth.

In his honor, the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in the Division of the Social Sciences and the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago will grant the W. Allison Davis Graduate Research Award to doctoral students who propose to conduct outstanding research on these questions.

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