Harvard Univ. professor Charles V. Willie named distinguished lecturer

Jet, April 11, 1994

Dr. Charles V. Willie, professor of Education and Urban Studies at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, has been named the Robin M. Williams,

Jr. Distinguished Lecturer for the 1994-95 year by the Eastern Sociological Society.

The award was presented to Willie at the Society's annual meeting held recently in Baltimore, MD.

As distinguished lecturer, Dr. Willie will visit several college and university campuses in the East and also present a lecture at the Society's annual meeting in 1995.

Dr. Willie is former president of the Eastern Sociological Society. A 1948 sociology graduate of Morehouse College, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the sociologist earned his Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University, where he later served as chairman of the sociology department and vice president of academic affairs.

Dr. Willie identifies himself as an. applied sociologist who is concerned with solving social problems. He has been a court appointed master and has served as an expert witness or consultant in several school desegregation cases. In addition, he has authored or edited 23 books and more than 100 articles and chapters in books. His most well known book, A New Look at Black Families, was first published in 1976 and is now in its fourth edition.