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Dorian Warren
International Affairs Building, Room 1431
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-4659
dorian.warren@sipa.columbia.edu
Fax: 212-854-4782
dw2288@columbia.edu
Teaching and Research Focus:
Dorian T. Warren (PhD, Yale, 2005) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics. He teaches and conducts research on labor organizing and politics, race and ethnic politics, urban politics and policy, American political development, community organizing and social movements, and social science methodology. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Warren spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and spent 2008-2009 as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Education:
BA, University of Illinois
MA, Yale University
PhD, Yale University
Currently:
Institute for Research in African-American Studies, faculty affiliate
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, faculty fellow
Center for Urban Research and Policy Seminar Series, coordinator
Applied Research Center, board member
Center for Community Change, board member
Center for Social and Institutional Change, Columbia Law School, board member
Background:
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, post-doctoral scholar
Research fellowships, Ford Foundation, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies (CUNY), University of Notre Dame, Russell Sage Foundation
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
American Rights at Work
Publications:
“The American Labor Movement in the Age of Obama: The Challenges and Opportunities of a Racialized Political Economy.” Perspectives on Politics, 2010.
“The Politics and Practice of Economic Justice: Community Benefits Agreements As Tactic of the New Accountable Development Movement,” with Virginia Parks. Journal of Community Practice, 2009
Race and American Political Development. Editor, with Joe Lowndes and Julie Novkov. New York: Routledge, 2008
“Race, Gender, and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism,” with Kate Bronfenbrenner. New Labor Forum, 2007.
“New Orleans Is Not the Exception: Re-politicizing the Study of Racial Inequality,” with Paul Frymer and Dara Z. Strolovitch. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2006.
“Wal-Mart Surrounded: Community Alliances & Labor Politics in Chicago.” New Labor Forum, 2005.
“Organizing at the Intersection of Labor and Civil Rights: A Case Study of New Haven,” with Cathy J. Cohen. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 2000.
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