William A. Darity Jr.

Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

Sanford School of Public Policy

william.darity@duke.edu

Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0245

238 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

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Credentials
1. Education

Academic Experience
1. Current Appointments & Affiliations
2. Previous Appointments & Affiliations

Expertise
1. Global Scholarship

Research
1. Selected Grants

Publications
1. Selected Publications

Artistic Works / Events

Teaching
1. Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Recognition
1. Awards & Honors
2. In the News

Professional Activities
1. Selected Presentations & Appearances
2. Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

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Selected Grants

An Innovative Model for Examining the Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in Durham

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by City of Durham · 2023 - 2026

An Innovative Model for Examining the Racial Wealth Gap and Small Business Development

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Walmart, Inc · 2022 - 2025

Analyzing the interlocking nature of Inequality: A comprehensive research program for the 21st Century

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPB Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Addressing Structural Barriers to Economic Inclusion for Children and Families - Elevating and Accelerating Promising Approaches

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2023 - 2025

Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) 2022-2025

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2025

An Innovative Model for Examining the Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in Durham

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by City of Durham · 2023 - 2026

An Innovative Model for Examining the Racial Wealth Gap and Small Business Development

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Walmart, Inc · 2022 - 2025

Analyzing the interlocking nature of Inequality: A comprehensive research program for the 21st Century

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPB Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Addressing Structural Barriers to Economic Inclusion for Children and Families - Elevating and Accelerating Promising Approaches

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2023 - 2025

Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) 2022-2025

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2025

General Operating Support

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation · 2021 - 2024

The Role of Wealth in the Social Determinants of Health Disparities

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2021 - 2023

Income Supplements versus Building Wealth

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ford Foundation · 2021 - 2023

Are Gifted Programs Beneficial to Underserved Students? An Examination of Malleable Factors and Conditions Associated with Beneficial Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes for Students.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2019 - 2023

Radcliffe Fellowship

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Harvard University · 2022 - 2023

Samuel DuBois Cook Center Program Grant

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Southern Reconstruction Fund · 2022 - 2023

Making Black Reparations in America

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by William T. Grant Foundation · 2021 - 2023

Religion, Spirituality and CVD Risks: A Focus on African Americans

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2023

Pandemic Divide Conference

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2022 - 2023

Race and Underserved Communities: COVID-19 and its Economic and Social Impact on Black-Owned Small Business in Durham, North Carolina

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPB Foundation · 2021 - 2022

DITE Program Support

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation · 2020 - 2021

Race and Underserved Communities: COVID-19 and its Economic and Social Impact on Businesses in Durham, North Carolina

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPMorgan Chase Foundation · 2020 - 2021

RAPID: Understanding the Disparate Impact of COVID-19

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2021

Evaluating Proposals for a Federal Job Guarantee

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nathan Cummings Foundation · 2018 - 2020

Building a Diverse Community of Entrepreneurs: A Comprehensive Research Program on Race, Gender and Business Ownership

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPMorgan Chase Foundation · 2019 - 2020

We Are: Working to Extend Anti-Racism Education

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust · 2018 - 2020

Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics 2

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2019

AFN Brief: Women and Business Ownership

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Asset Funders Network · 2017 - 2019

Collaborative Research: Identity, Stereotypes and Black College Student Success

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018

A New Research Program on Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Self-Employment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by JPMorgan Chase Foundation · 2017 - 2018

Stratification Economics and a Gendered Analysis Around Closing the Wealth Gap

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nathan Cummings Foundation · 2017 - 2018

Reflections on the Impact of the Reconstruction Amendments: A Research Symposium on the Social and Economic Outcomes of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Phase V

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ford Foundation · 2016 - 2017

The Research Institute for Scholars of Equity (RISE): Conducting Mixed Methods Research to Improve Academic Outcomes among PK-20 African American and Latino/a Children, Youth and Young Adults

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Central University · 2016 - 2017

DC Convening

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Institute of International Education · 2016 - 2017

Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment: From Emancipation to Freedom?

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Kellogg Foundation · 2016 - 2017

Data Extraction from National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association for Enterprise Opportunity · 2016 - 2016

National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Phase IV

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ford Foundation · 2015 - 2016

NASCC in Baltimore

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Annie E. Casey Foundation · 2015 - 2016

Wealth Inequality in America at the City and National Origin Levels

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Russell Sage Foundation · 2015 - 2016

Conference: Dissecting Inequality: Difference and Disparity in the 21st Century

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2016

Asset Scorecard

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ford Foundation · 2013 - 2014

African American Literature and Social History

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEFaculty Associate · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2012 - 2013

Faculty Diversity in Economics

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2012

Young Scholars - Black Scholars Project

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · 2008 - 2009

Race, Genetics, and Health

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2008 - 2009