William A. Darity, Jr.
| Sandy Darity, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 19, 1953 Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution |
University of North Carolina 1983– Duke University |
| Field | Macroeconomics, public economics, analysis of economic stratification |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1978) Brown University(B.A., 1974) |
| Awards | Westerfield Award (2012) |
William A. "Sandy" Darity, Jr. (born April 19, 1953) is an American economist and researcher. He is currently the Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School at Duke University and was the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of North Carolina. Darity was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors in 1984, and from 1989 to 1990 was a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He is a former President of the Southern Economic Association.
His varied research interests have included economic stratification, the African diaspora, the economics of black reparations, group-based post traumatic stress disorder, and social and economic policy as they relate to race and ethnicity.
William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised largely in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father, William A. Darity Sr., was a trustee at the University of North Carolina. Darity Jr. graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1974, where he earned honors in economics and political science. He was named a Marshall Scholar after undergraduate school, and on the scholarship spent two years studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1978 he completed a doctorate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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