Troy Duster
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Troy Smith Duster (born July 11, 1936) is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. Duster is on the faculty advisor boards of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.[1]
Troy S. Duster | |
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Born | Troy Smith Duster (1936-07-11) July 11, 1936 (age 87) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Northwestern University (BA, PhD) University of California, Los Angeles (MA) |
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Relatives | Ida B. Wells (grandmother), Ferdinand Lee Barnett (grandfather) |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley New York University |
Thesis | The Social Response to Abnormality (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Raymond Mack |
In 1970, Duster published The Legislation of Morality, in which he showed how the moral indignation regarding addiction at the time of the Harrison Narcotic Law (1914) pointed fingers not at the middle- and upper-class users of drugs but at the lower classes of Americans.[2] More recently he contributed to the book White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-blind Society (2005).
From 2004–2005, Duster served as president of the American Sociological Association.[3] He was also a contributing member of the International HapMap Project, an organization that worked to develop the first haplotype map of the human genome.[4]
He is the grandson of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.[3]