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John H. Stanfield II, PhD (2006*)
Indianapolis, IN. STM (Masters of Sacred Theology), Boston University School of Theology, 2005; MA, PhD, Northwestern University, 1977; BA magna cum laude, summa cum laude in Sociology (entered as an Equal Opportunity Program Student), California State University Fresno, 1973.

Selected Publications:

• Philanthropy and Jim Crow in American social science, Greenwood Press. (1985). Nominated for the 1985 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association and for the C.Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
• (Editor) Charles S. Johnson's Bitter Canaan: The story of the negro republic. Transaction Books. (1987).
• A history of race relations research: First generation recollections. Sage Publications. (1993). Winner of 1994 Meyer Center Award for Best Book on Racial Intolerance in North America), with Rutledge M. Dennis.
• (Co-Editor) Race and ethnicity in research methods. Sage Publications. (1993).
• (Editor) Building functional and productive multiethnic societies. The American behavioral scientist, with Rutledge Dennis.
• (Co-Editor) Myths and realities: African Americans and the measurement of human abilities. Journal of negro education, Vol.64. (1995).
• (Editor) Teaching sociology: Teaching sociology in HBCUS. (2003).
• (Editor) Hylan Lewis' Blackways of Kent, forthcoming, University of South Carolina Press.
• (Founding Editor) Sage International Series on Race and Ethnic Relations. (1988-1995). At least eleven volumes.
• (Founding Editor) Research in social policy, five volumes.

Key Articles and Book Chapters:

• The ethnocentric basis of knowledge production. Review of educational research. Ethnic modeling in qualitative research. In (Eds.) N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln, Handbook on qualitative methods. Sage. (1985).
• Slipping through the front door: Social science evaluation research in the people of color century. (1999).
• Throw away populations and the socially responsible university. American Journal of Evaluation; April, 2002. Distinguished lecture published by the School of Social Work, University of Illinois, Chicago. (2003).
• Psychoanalytic ethnography and the transformation of racially wounded communities. The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. (2006).
• The restorative justice functions of qualitative research methods. The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. (2006).
• Ethnicity and race as resource mobilization in American civic life and participation: Traditional and emerging concerns. Handbook on Community Movements and Local Organizations, Chapter 18. (2006). Springer Publishers.
• Forthcoming- The gospel of feel good sociology of race relations as pseudoscience and the decline in relevance of American academic sociology in the 21st Century. In E. B. Silva & T. Zuberi (Eds.) White methods, white logic. Rowman and Littlefield.
  

Awards: Grants and fellowships from Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, National Academy of Education, National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Fulbright Senior Scholar (Sierre Leone-1989-90), Salzburg, Austria Seminar Participant (twice), Edwin and Frances Cummings Professorship, College of William and Mary (1988-93), Avalon Professorship, Morehouse College (1998-2002). Mellon Visiting Scholar, Teachers College Columbia Urban Institute on Minority Education, 2002-03. 2000 Joseph Himes Career Award, National Association of Black Sociologists.2007- 2008 Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American Studies, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 2008 Research Leave Supplement Award, Indiana University Bloomington Office of the Vice President for Research.

Memberships: Action, Action Research, and Process Management Association, American Sociological Association, Interuniversity Seminar on the Armed Forces and Society, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action,Salzburg Seminar Alumni Association; editorial board memberships: The Encyclopedia on the African Diaspora; The Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Race and Public Policy

Related Professional Activities: Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies with senior faculty status in American Studies, Philanthropic Studies and Sociology Indiana University Bloomington; Founding Chair, The African Diaspora Seminar; Associated Faculty Member, Postgraduate Programme on Diversity, Institute on Diversity, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; President and Principal Consultant, Stanfield Consultants International, LLC; President and CEO, God's Gathering Place; President, Faith and Justice in Community and Society, Inc: A Grassroot Social and Behavorial Science Institute, Think Tank, and Down to Top Public Policy Center Utilizing Ecumenical and Interfaith Solutions to Societal Challenges; President and CEO, A-Z Personal Concierge Services, LLC: Employing and Empowering the Vulnerable.

Special Interests: Spiritual , biographical, epistemological, structural, cultural, economic, and political contexts of knowledge and the social constructions, stabilizations, and transformations of realities; American and cross national studies of micro/macro dimensions of personal and structural transformations in culturally and socially divided institutions, communities and societies as civic norms, values, and private and public identities and as life practices ; spirituality in human development , community ,and organizational studies, and the epistemologies, theories, and methods of justice social sciences and humanities.