But, im going to try to introduce soon. To catch you from the remarkable and lengthy biography the Communications Director broke from a. It was hardly a brief. If i used all the info he provided me i would be speaking longer than the minutes assigned to bill himself. So i cut it down considerably. Bill has a 56 page cv. Its not packed with anything trivial. Ill come back to his scholarly him policy contributions. I miss start with a few of his titles and honors. Sociologist is the louis p and london kaiser professor at harvard. At the time of his appointment in 1995 National Media covered his addition to harvard stream team of africanamerican intellectuals including skip gates. I met bill when he was at the university of chicago and a major force there as he has been everywhere. I was a slightly younger scholar than and he was incredibly supportive as he is. As a mentor. He started his teaching in 1965 at the university of massachusetts amherst. Charlotte before completing his phd in s