Walter Allen

Dr. John Hope Franklin Award, 2020
National Academy of Education Member, 2018
AERA Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award, 2016
Career Achievement Award, Recognized for career contributions to education, Stovall Uplift Education Foundation, 2011
Nominated for President, Association for Study of Higher Education, 2010
AERA Fellows Award, Distinguished research career, American Educational Research Association, 2009
Presidential Citation, American Educational Research Association, 2008
Finalist for President, American Educational Research Association, 2003
Special Merit Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2002
DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association, 2002
Finalist for President, American Sociological Association, 1997
Ellis Joseph Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Dayton, 1997
Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1996
Outstanding Community Service Award, Drew/RAND Center on Health and Aging, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 1996
Distinguished Career Award, Association of Black Sociologists, 1995
Research Excellence Award, American Educational Research Association, 1993

Postdoctoral Study, Psycho-Social Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1979
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1975
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1973
B.A., Sociology, Beloit College (Wisconsin), 1971

Huerta, A. H., McDonough, P. M., Venegas, K. M., & Allen, W. R. (2020). “College is…: focusing on the college knowledge of gang-associated Latino young men.” Urban Education, 0042085920934854.
Trevon L. Fuller, Paul R. Sesink Clee, Kevin Y. Njabo, Anthony Tróchez, Katy Morgan, Demetrio Bocuma Meñe, Nicola M. Anthony, Mary Katherine Gonder, Walter R. Allen, Rachid Hanna, Thomas B. Smith, “Climate warming causes declines in crop yields and lowers school attendance rates in Central Africa,” Science of The Total Environment, 610–611, 503-510, 2018
Huerta, A.H., McDonough, P.M. & Allen, W.R. ‘“You can go to college’: Employing a Developmental Perspective to Examine How Young Men of Color Construct a College-Going Identity”. Urban Rev 50, 713–734, 2018
Allen, W. R., McLewis, C., Jones, C., & Harris, D. (2018). “From Bakke to Fisher: African American students in US higher education over forty years.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(6), 41-72.

Vue, R., Haslerig, S. J., & Allen, W. R. (2017). “Affirming race, diversity, and equity through Black and Latinx students’ lived experiences.” American Educational Research Journal, 54(5), 868-903.
Haslerig, S., Bernhard, L. M., Fuentes, M. V., Panter, A. T., Daye, C. E., & Allen, W. R. “A compelling interest: Activating the benefits of classroom-level diversity,” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6, 3, 158-173, 2013
Uma Jayakumar, Rican Vue, Walter Allen “Pathways to College for Young Black Scholars: A Community Cultural Wealth Perspective,” Harvard Educational Review, 83, 4, 551–579, 2013
Daye, C. E., Panter, A. T., Allen, W. R., & Wightman, L. F. “Does race matter in educational diversity? A legal and empirical analysis,” Rutgers Race & The Law Review, 13, 2, 75-S-192-S. 2012
Newman, C.B., Mmeje, K. and Allen, W.R., “African American men at predominantly white institutions of higher education. Black males in postsecondary education: Examining their experiences in diverse institutional contexts,” Historical Legacy, Ongoing Reality, 89-106, 2012