IFDTC Conference

Sunday, May 17 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Delray Beach Marriott
10 North Ocean Blvd
Delray Beach, FL 33483
Phone 561-274-3200

Registration fee $380 before April 10, 2009
after April 10th $480 and on a space available basis

2009 Program
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2009 Presentations
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Keynote Speaker

Lawrence D. Bobo, Ph.D.LAWRENCE D. BOBO is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies.  He has held tenured appointments at the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and Stanford where he was Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

He has written widely on the intersection of social inequality, politics, and race. Among other works, he is co-author of the award winning book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (with H. Schuman, C. Steeh, and M. Krysan) and his most recent book, Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute (with M. Tuan), was a finalist for the 2007 C. Wright Mills Award. He is currently working on the “Race, Crime, and Public Opinion” project.

Professor Bobo is an elected member of the National Academy of Science as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alphonse M. Fletcher Sr. Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar.