Walter Allen

About

Walter Allen is a Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology, and African American Studies at UCLA, holding the Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, a postdoctoral study in Psycho-Social Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in Sociology from Beloit College. His research focuses on higher education, international and comparative education, organizational change, race and ethnic studies. Allen has made significant contributions to understanding the experiences of African American students in higher education, examining issues of diversity, equity, and access, and exploring the social and organizational dynamics within educational institutions. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award, membership in the National Academy of Education, and recognition from the American Educational Research Association for his distinguished research career.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Medical education
• Medicine
• Geography
• Physics
• Psychology
• Pedagogy
• Law
• Astronomy

Selected publications

• ‘You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands!’: campus culture, Black misandric microaggressions, and racial battle fatigue

  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · 2016-09-14 · 252 citations

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  Black males are scarce on White campuses. Still, they experience hypervisibility and are targets of hypersurveillance. This study used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to examine the experiences of 36 Black male students attending seven ‘elite’ historically White Research I institutions. Two themes emerged: (a) anti-Black male stereotyping and marginality and (b) hypersurveillance and control directed at Black men by Whites. Participants reported stereotyping and increased surveillanc…

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• From Bakke to Fisher: African American Students in U.S. Higher Education over Forty Years

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2018-09-01 · 60 citations

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  Walter R. Allen, Channel McLewis, Chantal Jones, Daniel Harris, From Bakke to Fisher: African American Students in U.S. Higher Education over Forty Years, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 6, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report (September 2018), pp. 41-72

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• “You can go to college”: Employing a Developmental Perspective to Examine How Young Men of Color Construct a College-Going Identity

  The Urban Review · 2018-07-12 · 44 citations

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• Affirming Race, Diversity, and Equity Through Black and Latinx Students’ Lived Experiences

  American Educational Research Journal · 2017-05-24 · 43 citations

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  Immediately after President Obama's successful campaign, many hypothesized that the United States had entered a post-racial era. This study uses critical race theory to examine how high-achieving Black and Latinx college students make meaning of and navigate affirmative action policy discourses in an era of colorblind racial politics. Semi-structured interviews with 46 alumni of two race-conscious college access programs illustrate how participants employ a race-conscious framework that affirms…

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• Assessing the impact of China's timber industry on Congo Basin land use change

  Area · 2018-06-27 · 35 citations

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  Through the rise of global commodity chains, consumer demand in China and the USA has given rise to the extraction of natural resources in the Congo Basin. The Chinese market for high‐valued animal products such as elephant ivory and pangolin scales has encouraged poaching, exploitation and trafficking of these goods in Africa. Chinese demand for other African commodities, however, remains less well known. Using data across a 15‐year period (2001–2015), we analysed the relationship between Chine…

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Frequent coauthors

• Grace Carroll

  25 shared

• Daniel Solóranzo

  University of California, Berkeley

  25 shared

• Charles E. Daye

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  13 shared

• Robert T. Teranishi

  University of California, Los Angeles

  13 shared

• Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth

  University of California, Irvine

  12 shared

• A. T. Panter

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  11 shared

• Linda F. Wightman

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  11 shared

• Kimberly A. Griffin

  10 shared

Awards & honors

• Dr. John Hope Franklin Award (2020)
• National Academy of Education Member (2018)
• AERA Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Awa…
• Career Achievement Award, Recognized for career contribution…
• AERA Fellows Award, Distinguished research career, American…

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