#  William Julius Wilson 

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://scholar.harvard.edu/wwilson) 

 

 



 

   
*Research interests*: Sociologist. Urban poverty, neighborhoods, joblessness, concentrated disadvantage, race and inequality, and social policies to address these problems.



 

 

 





 

 

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