Dalton Conley
Chair, Department of Sociology and Professor of the Social Sciences (NYU Department of Sociology)
Dalton Conley is Dean of Social Sciences and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. He holds appointments in NYU's Sociology Department and Wagner School of Public Service , as an Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER ). In 2005, Conley became the first sociologist to win the NSF's Alan T. Waterman Award. His research focuses on how socio-economic status is transmitted across generations and on the public policies that affect that process. In this vein, he studies sibling differences in socioeconomic success; racial inequalities; the measurement of class and social status; and how health and biology affect (and are affected by) social position.
