Dear RSF:

Please join us for a Zoom seminar Wednesday, May 6, presented by Visiting Scholar Frank Dobbin: “Do Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 Universities, 1993-2015.”  This seminar will begin at 11:00.

Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.  He received his BA in Sociology from Oberlin College and his PhD in Sociology from Stanford University.

His evidence-based research on corporate diversity programs (with Alexandra Kalev) reveals that mentoring programs, diversity taskforces, and special recruitment programs have helped to promote diversity by engaging managers, while diversity training and diversity performance evaluations have thwarted progress by stigmatizing managers. Dobbin has published numerous books studying the social construction of economic rationality, including Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (1994) and The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy (2008), as well as Inventing Equal Opportunity (2009).