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RODERICK J. HARRISON, Ph.D.
Roderick J. Harrison
Senior Research Fellow
Civic Engagement and Governance
Roderick Harrison is the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously, he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations. In 1998, the American Statistical Society awarded him the Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for his work in revising the racial and ethnic classifications used by all federal agencies and efforts in developing new classifications on race and ethnicity for the 2000 Census.
Dr. Harrison held a joint appointment in the Afro-American Studies and Sociology departments at Harvard University and also taught at UCLA. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton and his A.B. from Harvard.
Dr. Harrison is also a Joint Center subject matter expert. Details on his areas of expertise can be viewed here.
