Bobo is the second of three sons born to Joseph R. Bobo Sr.,a graduate of Meharry Medical College and once the chief of minor trauma at USC County Medical Hospital in Los Angeles,California,and Joyce Cooper Bobo,a longtime teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
His maternal grandmother was Ann Nixon Cooper,the 106-year-old Atlanta woman Barack Obama mentioned in his victory speech in Grant Park,Chicago,upon his election as president in 2008.[2] Bobo wrote of his relationship with her in a blog post for The Root at the time of her death.[3]
In June 2024,Bobo authored a Harvard Crimson op-ed arguing that Harvard should sanction faculty members who "excoriate University leadership,faculty,staff,or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business".[10] His essay was widely criticized by faculty at Harvard and other universities,the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression,and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.[11][12][13] Ten members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard responded to Bobo in another Crimson op-ed,calling his arguments "downright alarming" and "clear infringements on academic freedom".[14][15]
They lived in the Brattle District of Cambridge,Massachusetts,in a home originally designed by Lois Howe in 1898.[17] Bobo and Morgan remodeled the home,contracting with architect Mary Ann Thompson[18] and consulting on the kitchen design with chefs Jody Adams and Aaron Sanchez. The remodeled Victorian has received recognition[19] and awards.[20]
Awards and honors
Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research,The Roper Center,University of Connecticut (2021)[21]
Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement,American Association for Public Opinion Research (2020)[22]
Phi Beta Kappa (Alumni Member),Omega Chapter of California,Loyola Marymount University (2020)[23]
Outstanding Book Award,American Association for Public Opinion Research (for Prejudice in Politics) (2018)[24]
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow,American Association of Political and Social Science (2017)[25]
Charles Horton Cooley-George Herbert Mead Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Social Psychology,American Sociological Association (2012)[26]
Outstanding Book Award,American Association for Public Opinion Research (for Racial Attitudes in America) (2005)[27]
Bobo, Lawrence D.; Smith, Ryan A. (1994), "Antipoverty policy, affirmative action and racial attitudes", in Danziger, Sheldon H.; Sandefur, Gary D.; Weinberg, Daniel H. (eds.), Confronting poverty: prescriptions for change, New York Cambridge, Massachusetts: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press, pp.365–395, ISBN9780674160811.
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