Mary Pattillo

Mary Pattillo
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Residence Chicago, Illinois
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Columbia University
University of Chicago
Occupation Sociologist
Employer Northwestern University
Notable work Black Picket Fences
Black on the Block
Title Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies

Mary Pattillo is Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. As of 2016, she has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in African American Studies and has been a Faculty Associate in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research since 2004.[1] She has formerly served as chair of the Northwestern University Department of Sociology.[1]

Early life

Mary Pattillo was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to parents who grew up in Louisiana during segregation; Louisiana State University paid for her father to attend medical school out of state rather than enroll a black student.[2] By contrast, in high school, post-Civil Rights Movement, Pattillo was part of a busing program to desegregate Milwaukee-area schools, a sign of the movement's significant gains; yet Pattillo also noticed continuing housing discrimination and protests against police brutality that called into question the success of the movement, a topic that became central to her scholarship.[2]

Pattillo attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, majoring in urban studies and sociology, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1991. Pattillo then earned a Master of Arts in 1994 and Ph.D. from University of Chicago in sociology[3] in 1997.[2]

Career

Research

Pattillo is an ethnographer whose research focuses on the Black middle class, the intersections of race and public policy, and urban communities, particularly in Chicago. Some of her other research interests include race and ethnicity in the United States and Latin America, class stratification, school choice, criminal justice, qualitative methodologies, and African American studies.[3]

Pattillo's experiences growing up in a middle-class Black family were formative to her research and teaching. Living in a Black community in Milwaukee and moving from a segregated elementary school to being bused into a wealthy white suburban high school generated Pattillo's interest in sociology and provided her with some of the research questions she continues to answer in her studies.[4] As Milwaukee and her current residence of Chicago are located in close proximity to each other in the Midwest, both have large, diverse, and vibrant African American communities, and both are hypersegregated, Pattillo often draws parallels between the two in writings and interviews.[2][5][4]

Teaching

Pattillo's undergraduate and graduate African American Studies and Sociology courses include Introduction to Sociology, Cities in Society, Field Methods, Urban Ethnography, The Obama Effect, Social Meaning of Race, Housing, Community and Public Policy, Introduction to Black Social and Political Life, Researching Black Communities, Urban Poverty, and Race, Politics, Society, and Culture.[3][6]

Civic engagement

Pattillo is a founding board member and current Board Vice-Chair at Urban Prep Academies, a charter high school network for boys in Chicago that educates a predominantly Black student body.[7] She also serves as a Board Member of The Chicago Community Trust's African American Legacy Initiative and is on the Advisory Committee of the National Public Housing Museum.[1][4]

Publications

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, New York University School of Law[1]
  • Faculty Appreciation Award, from For Members Only: Northwestern University's Black Student Alliance, 2009[1]
  • Northwestern Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll, 2008[1]
  • Visiting Professor, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC), Sciences Po, Paris, France, 2008[1]
  • Winner of the Robert Park Best Book Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for Black on the Block, 2007[1]
  • Honorable Mention, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Race, Class, Gender Section of the American Sociological Association for Black on the Block, 2007[1]
  • "Favorite Books of 2007," Chicago Tribune for Black on the Block[3] Received City of Chicago Resolution in honor of Black on the Block, 2007[1]
  • Received Columbia College Alumna Achievement Award, 2004[1]
  • Named Northwestern University Arthur Andersen Research and Teaching Professor in 2004[3]
  • Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program, Brazil, 2003[1]
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago, 2002-2003[1]
  • Faculty Affiliate, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 2000-2001[1]
  • Outstanding Academic Book Award, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 2000[3]
  • Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association for Black Picket Fences, 2000[1]
  • Honorable Mention, Robert Park Award for Distinguished Book Publication, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, for Black Picket Fences, 2000[1]
  • Visiting Minority Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 2000[1]
  • Distinguished Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1999[1]
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poverty, the Underclass, and Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1997-1998[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Mary Pattillo's CV" (PDF).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Fenstermaker, Sarah; Jones, Nikki (2011-04-27). Sociologists Backstage: Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do. Routledge. ISBN 9781136891076.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Mary Pattillo: Department of African American Studies - Northwestern University". www.afam.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Faculty Spotlight: Mary Pattillo: Institute for Policy Research". www.ipr.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  5. ↑ Pattillo, Mary (1999). Black Picket Fences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226021195.
  6. ↑ "Mary Pattillo: Department of Sociology". www.sociology.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  7. ↑ "Is That a Choice? – South Side Weekly". southsideweekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  8. ↑ Silverman, Robert Mark (2001-03-01). "Book Review: Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, by Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999". Critical Sociology. 27 (2): 282–284. doi:10.1177/08969205010270020601. ISSN 0896-9205.
  9. ↑ A., Gregory, Toni (1999-10-01). "Black Picket Fences: Privileges and Peril among the Black Middle Class". The Journal of Negro Education. 68 (4). ISSN 0022-2984.
  10. ↑ Edwards, Erica (2002-01-01). "Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class". Transforming Anthropology. 11 (1): 69–70. doi:10.1525/tran.2002.11.1.69. ISSN 1548-7466.
  11. ↑ Baldwin, Davarian (2011-03-03). "Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (review)". American Studies. 50 (1): 245–246. doi:10.1353/ams.2011.0017. ISSN 2153-6856.
  12. ↑ Wennerström, Ulla-Britt (2010-03-01). "Book Review: Mary Pattillo Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 387 pp". Acta Sociologica. 53 (1): 92–94. doi:10.1177/00016993100530010108. ISSN 0001-6993.
  13. ↑ Bennett, Larry (2010-03-01). "Book Review: Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, by Mary Pattillo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 400 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper)". Urban Affairs Review. 45 (4): 570–572. doi:10.1177/1078087409335066. ISSN 1078-0874.
  14. ↑ Small, Mario Luis (2008). "Review of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City". American Journal of Sociology. 113 (4): 1183–1185. doi:10.1086/533552. JSTOR 10.1086/533552.
  15. ↑ Henderson, Harold (June 14, 2007). "The Mixed-Income Myth". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  16. ↑ Babb, Dr Tracie N. (2009-10-01). "Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City—A New Perspective of Middle Class". Review of Communication. 9 (4): 330–331. doi:10.1080/15358590903151203.
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