Harris, David R
Deputy Provostresearch
research and scholarship focus
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social Inequality
- Identity
- Social Demography
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Sociology (SOC) | Cornell department
administrative appointment
- Office of the Provost | administrative office
member of graduate field
- Sociology | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) | research center
- Cornell Population Program (CPP) | research program
- Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) | research institute
- University Diversity Council | committee
service
event participant
background
educational background
- Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University, 1997. Dissertation: “Race, Class, and Social Problems: Determinants of White Residential Mobility”
- B.S. Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1991.
professional background
- Interim Provost, Cornell University. 2008 -
- Deputy Provost, Cornell University. 2007 - 2008
- Vice Provost for Social Sciences, Cornell University. 2005 -2007
- Robert S. Harrison Executive Director, The Institute for the Social Sciences,
Cornell University. 2004 - 2005 - Associate Chair. Department of Sociology, University of Michigan. 2002 - 2003
- Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Michigan, 1996 - 2003
- Assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research, 1996 - 2003
- Postdoctoral Fellow. Program on Poverty, the Underclass, and Public Policy,
University of Michigan. 1996 - 1997 - Serves on the Board of Overseers for the General Social Survey
- Consultant for the National Research Council Committee (Census Evaluation)
- Consultant for the National Research Council Committee on Measuring Discrimination
awards and distinctions
- The Center for the Study of Inequality Distinguished Paper Award (2002-2003)
for "Who is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race." - Fellowship to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | 2000
- National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship | 1991-1994
- The Robert F. Winch Memorial Award for Outstanding Second Year Paper,
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University | 1993 - National Merit Scholarship | 1987-1991
featured in
- Andrew and Ann Tisch give $35 million for faculty recruitment and retention | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Conference focuses on critical diversity issue: What happens to blacks, Latinos once they reach college? | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell forms University Diversity Council to create a more inclusive campus | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell global expert offers clues to why grinding poverty in Africa persists - and keeps rising | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell launches Center for Comparative and Population Genomics | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell provides insights into results from new poll partnership with New York Times and NY1 | Cornell Chronicle feature
- David Harris is named Cornell vice provost for social sciences | Cornell Chronicle feature
- David Harris named to new position of deputy provost | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Deputy Provost David Harris to present seminars on social inequality to alumni | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Expert panel meets to discuss health care and immigration, but massive bailout is on minds of most | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Experts to dissect Obama-McCain domestic policies | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Funding isn't linked to student success, but parents' education and income are: CU sociologist | Cornell Chronicle feature
- How equal is opportunity? Seminars engage alumni in social sciences research | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Incoming freshman class more diverse, but achievement rates still lacking, says deputy provost | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Interim Provost Harris muses on his new 'trickle up' job | Cornell Chronicle feature
- New book dissects race-based disadvantage | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Population center and its demographic research boosted by $1.15 million grant | Cornell Chronicle feature
- President Skorton announces formation of Provost Search Committee and names interim provost | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Prison Education Program expands its offerings | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
I. Books
- Lin, Ann Chih and David R. Harris (editors). 2008. The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Harris, David R. and Hiromi Ono. 2004. "How Many Interracial Marriages Would There Be if All Groups Were of Equal Size in All Places? A New Look at National Estimates of Interracial Marriage." Social Science Research 236-251.
- Harris, David R. and Jeremiah Joseph Sim. 2002. "Who is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race." American Sociological Review 67: 614-627.
- Harris, David R. 2001. "Why Are Whites and Blacks Averse to Black Neighbors?" Social Science Research 30: 100-116.
- Harris, David R. 1999. "Property Values Drop When Blacks Move In, Because?: Racial and Socioeconomic Determinants of Neighborhood Desirability." American Sociological Review 64: 461-479.
- Harris, David. 1995. "Exploring the Determinants of Adult Black Identity: Context and Process." Social Forces 74: 225-239.
- Harris, David. 1994. "The 1990 Census Count of American Indians: What Do the Numbers Really Mean?" Social Science Quarterly 75: 580-593.
- Harris, David R. 2002. "Does It Matter How We Measure? Racial Classification and the Characteristics of Multiracial Youth," Pp. 62-101 in The New Race Question, edited by Joel Perlmann and Mary Waters. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Harris, David R. 2002. "Poverty Research and Antipoverty Policy After the Technological Revolution," Pp. 454-462 in Understanding Poverty, edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Fernandez, Roberto M. and David Harris. 1992. "Social Isolation and the Underclass." Pp. 257-293 in Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity, edited by Adele V. Harrell and George E. Peterson. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
- Harris, David. R. 2003. Review of Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America, by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002), Social Forces 82: 436-437.
- Harris, David. 1997. Review of Divided By Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals, by Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), American Journal of Sociology 102: 1749-1751.
- Harris, David. 1997. Review of Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination, by John Yinger (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995), Contemporary Sociology 26: 155-156.
- Harris, David R. 2003. "Racist History Lives Today." Detroit Free Press (January 23).
- Harris, David R. 2001. "The Multiracial Count." Washington Post (March 24) A21. (reprinted in Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, and Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
- Harris, David R. 2000. "What's the Internet Got To Do with It" Housing Discrimination in the 21st Century.? Focus 21, 2: 63-64.
- Harris, David R. 2000. "Demography's Race Problem." Visions of the Future: A Town Meeting on Future Directions in Population Research. Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/sp/index.htm.