Robert D. Bullard
American sociologist, activist, and university administrator (born 1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the United States Army general, see Robert Lee Bullard.
Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and currently Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice".[1][2] He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.
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Born | Robert Doyle Bullard (1946-12-21) December 21, 1946 (age 77) Elba, Alabama, U.S. |
Education | Alabama A&M University (BA) Clark Atlanta University (MA) Iowa State University (PhD) |
Spouse | Linda McKeever |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | Texas Southern University Clark Atlanta University University of California, Riverside |
Thesis | Voluntary Participation: Implications for Social Change and Conflict in a Community Decision Organization (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Richards |
Website | Official website |
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