Title:

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor

Affiliation:

Harvard University

John F. Kennedy School of Government

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02138 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Behavioral and Social Science

Award Year:

1998

Citation:

"For his innovative approach to studying urban poverty, his dedication to the proposition that rigorous social science change will improve his fellow American's lives, and his advocacy of policies which reflect more accurately what we have learned from research and which therefore take a broader point of view with respect to the interactions of race, class, and location."

Presented by President William Jefferson Clinton at a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, April 27, 1999.