William T. Bielby

William T. Bielby is Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the President of the American Sociological Association in 2002-2003. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was on the faculty of University of California, Santa Barbara from 1977 to 2004 where he served as chair of the Department of Sociology for six years. From 2005 to 2007 he was Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

External links

* [http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=William+T.+Bielby&section=Presidents Profile of William T. Bielby by the American Sociological Association]
* [http://www.uicsociology.org/william-bielby.html William Bielby, Ph.D.: Professor of Sociology] - University of Illinois at Chicago faculty page
* [http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2006/05/white_men_cant.php Business Week article about Bielby's expert testimony]
* [http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2002/September23/rockin.html Bielby's band, Thin Vitae, at the American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2003]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TZUjaaQJM Thin Vitae, performing at The Trash Bar in Brooklyn, NY in August 2007]