Dorian Warren
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
- Organizer, Center for Urban Research and Policy Seminar Series
Research
Dorian T. Warren is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and coordinates the Center for Urban Research & Policy Seminar Series. Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His research and teaching interests include labor organizing & politics, race and ethnic politics, urban politics, American political development, public policy, and social science methodology.
A native Chicagoan, Warren received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has been a Post-Doctoral Scholar and Visiting Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and has received research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, the University of Notre Dame and the Russell Sage Foundation. He has also worked with several national and local organizations including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, American Rights at Work, UNITE-HERE, SEIU, Steelworkers, NGLTF Policy Institute, and Jobs with Justice. He currently serves on the boards of the Applied Research Center and the Center for Community Change.
Selected Work:
*2008. Race and American Political Development. Editor, with Joe Lowndes and Julie Novkov. New York: Routledge.
*2007. "Race, Gender, and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism." New Labor Forum. v. 16, no. 3: 142-148. with Kate Bronfenbrenner.
*2006. "New Orleans Is Not the Exception: Re-politicizing the Study of Racial Inequality." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. v. 3, no. 1, Spring. with Paul Frymer and Dara Z. Strolovitch.
*2005. "Wal-Mart Surrounded: Community Alliances & Labor Politics in Chicago." New Labor Forum. v. 14, no. 3: 8-15.
*2000. "Organizing at the Intersection of Labor and Civil Rights: A Case Study of New Haven." With Cathy J. Cohen. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law. vol. 2, no. 4, Spring: 629-655.
