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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
THOMAS F. PETTIGREW
Office Address: Home Address:
Psychology Dept., Social Sciences II 524 Van Ness Avenue
University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 U.S.A. U.S.A.
(831) 459-2560
E-Mail:
Degrees: B.A. in Psychology, University of Virginia, 1952.
M.A. in Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1955.
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1956.
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Governors State University (IL), 1979.
Honorary Doctor in the Natural Sciences, Philipps University, Marburg,
Germany, 2008.
Appointments:
Research Professor of Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994-.
Professor of Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1980-1994.
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands), 1986-1991.
Professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, Harvard University, 1974-80.
Professor of Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1968-74.
Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1964-68.
Lecturer in Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1962-64.
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Harvard University, 1957-62.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1956-57.
Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Natal (Durban, South
Africa), 1956.
Teaching Fellow and Resident Tutor, Dunster House, Harvard University, 1953-56.
General Information:
Born in Richmond, Virginia, USA, March 14, 1931.
Married in 1956 to Ann Hallman (B.A. in Biology, Radcliffe College, Harvard University
1956; M.D., Boston University, 1960; and M.P.H., Harvard University, 1966).
One child, Mark Fraser Pettigrew (born Feb. 8, 1966; B.A., Magna Cum Laude with
Highest Honors in Anthropology, Harvard University, 1990; M.A., Ph.D. in Near
Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1998, 2005.
Chief Research Areas:
Social psychological and structural factors in intergroup relations; prejudice;
meta-analyses of intergroup contact and relative deprivation research.
Honors and Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa (University of Virginia, 1952).
Raven Honor Society (University of Virginia, 1952).
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Fellowship (for South African travel), 1956.
Honored guest, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 1965.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967-68.
U.S. Office of Education Grant for the Study of School Desegregation, 1968-1971.
Senior Scientist Fellowship (National Science Foundation), Strathclyde University,
Glasgow, Scotland, 1974.
Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
1975-1976.
The Sydney Spivack Fellowship for Race Relations Research (awarded by American
Sociological Association), 1978.
Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, The Netherlands,
1984-85.
The Kurt Lewin Award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI),
1987.
(with Joanne Martin) The Gordon W. Allport Intergroup Research Prize (awarded
by SPSSI), 1988.
Annual Faculty Research Award for UCSC campus, 1989.
Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center,
Bellagio, Italy, 1991.
Visiting Professor of Social Psychology, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet,
Muenster, Germany, 1993.
Norman Munn Distinguished Scholar, The Flinders University of South Australia,
1997.
Distinguished Service Award of SPSSI, 1998.
National Science Foundation Research Grant for a Meta-Analytic Study of Intergroup
Contact and Prejudice, 1999-2002.
Deutche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Society] Guest Professor of Psychology, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, 2000.
Visiting Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and
Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2001-2002.
Invited Presidential Lecturer, American Psychological Association Annual Convention,
Chicago, IL, 2002.
Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 2002.
New Century Scholar, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, 2003.
(with Linda Tropp) The Gordon W. Allport Intergroup Research Prize (awarded by
SPSSI), 2003.
The Lynn Stuart Weiss Lecturer of the American Psychological Foundation, American
Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, 2003.
Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty Award, University of California,
Santa Cruz, 2008.
Glynn Scholar in Residence, Washington and Lee University, 2008.
Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Academy for Intercultural Research,
2009.
The University of California systemwide Constantine Panunzio Award for outstanding research by an emeritus professor, 2009.
Ralph K. White Lifetime Achievement Award, the Society for the Study of Peace,
Conflict and Violence, 2010.
Harold Lasswell Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Society of Political Psychology, 2010.
William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award, Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2011.
The Career Contribution Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
2012.
The Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Contributions to Social Psychology of
the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association,
2014.
The Jos Jaspars Memorial Lecturer, Oxford University, 2015.
Professional Affiliations and Activities:
Memberships and Elected Organizational Offices Held
President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1967-68;
Council Member, 1962-67; currently a life member.
Council Member, Amer. Sociological Association, 1979-82; currently a life member.
Chair, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association,
1985-1986.
Fellow, Amer. Psychological Association (Divisions 8, 9); currently a life member.
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science.
Member of Society of Experimental Social Psychology; and the European
Association of Experimental Social Psychology.
Honorary Fellow, International Academy for Intercultural Research.
Appointed Editorial Posts on Professional Journals
Associate Editor, American Sociological Review, 1963-65.
Editorial or Advisory Board Member of:
The Journal of Social Issues, 1959-1964.
Integrated Education, 1963-1984.
Phylon, 1965-1992.
Education & Urban Society, 1968-1990.
Race (UK), 1972-1974.
Social Psychological Quarterly, 1977-1980.
Policy Studies Review Annual (Vols. 1-4), 1977-80.
Political Behavior, 1978-1988.
Ethnic and Racial Studies (UK), 1978-1995.
Review of Personality & Social Psychology, 1980-85.
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 1988-2002.
The Individual and Politics (Belgium), 1989-1993.
21st Century Afro Review, 1994-.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (UK), 1994-.
Actualidades en Psicologia (Costa Rica), 2006-.
International Journal of Conflict and Violence (Germany), 2006-.
Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Diversity (Spain), 2012.
Other Positions
Chair, Episcopal Presiding Bishop's Advisory Commission on Race Relations,
1961-1963.
Vice-President, Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, 1962-1963.
Member, Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, 1962-1964.
Member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Office of Education's national study, Equal
Educational Opportunity (The Coleman Report), 1965-1966.
Member, White House Task Force on Education, 1967.
Member, Advisory Committee, ERIC Informational Retrieval
Center on the Disadvantaged, Yeshiva University, 1967-68.
Member, Board of the Race Relations Information Center, Nashville, TN, 1969-1972.
Member, Research Advisory Committee of the Children's Television Workshop
(Sesame St., Electric Company, etc.), 1970-78.
Member, Emerson Book Award Committee of Phi Beta Kappa, 1971-1973.
Member, Advisory Board of the Harvard Health Careers Summer Program, 1972-1980.
Member, National Task Force on Desegregation Strategies, Education Commission
of the States, 1977-1979.
Member, Board of Trustees, Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, Boston, MA, 1978-80.
Member, Advisory Board of the Women and Social Change Project, Smith College,
1978-1985.
Chair, Allport Prize Committee of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues, 1979-80, 1997-1998.
Member (1981-82) and Chair (1982-83), the Universitywide Faculty Senate Committee
on Affirmative Action, The University of California, 1981-1983.
Adjunct Fellow, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC,
1982-present.
Member, Selection Panel, Rockefeller Research Fellowship
Program for Minority-Group Scholars, 1983-87.
Member, Publications Committee of the Society for the Study of Social Problems,
1984-1985.
Member, Committee on the Status of Black Americans, National Research Council
of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1985-1989.
Member, Advisory Board of the Women's Studies Program, Princeton University,
1985-2001.
Member, Panel of Experts, Common Destiny Alliance, 1992-2010.
Member, German Government Scientific Advisory Committee on Intercultural
Conflicts and Social Integration, 2003-2007.
Consulting:
Social Science Consultant to the U.S. Office of Education (1966-68); and U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights (1966-71).
State Educational Departments: California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, South
Carolina, Virginia & Washington.
Public School Systems: Arlington County, VA, Chattanooga, TN, Chicago, IL, Denver,
CO, Detroit, MI, Glendale, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, Minneapolis, MN, New York, NY,
Norfolk, VA, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Pontiac, MI, Richmond, VA,
San Diego, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, Shaker Heights, OH.
Various Organizations - e.g., Abt Associates (Cambridge, MA); California Energy
Commission (Sacramento, CA); California Public Utilities Commission (San Francisco, CA); Coca-Cola Inc. (Houston, TX); Education Commission of the
States (Denver, CO); Educational Testing Service (Princeton, NJ); A. D. Little (Cambridge, MA); Rand Corp. (Santa Monica, CA); System Development Corp. (Santa Monica, CA); and Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. (New York, NY).
Campus Colloquia
Allegheny College; Amsterdam Univ. (Netherlands); Arizona State Univ.; Atlanta Univ., Auburn Univ.; Bielefeld Univ. (Germany); Brandeis Univ.; Bremen Univ. (Germany); Brown Univ.; Boston College; Boston Univ.; Bowling Green Univ.; California State Univ.'s at Bakersfield, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles & San Jose; California Institute of Technology; Cambridge Univ. (U.K.); Carnegie-Mellon Univ.; Case-Western Reserve Univ.; Catholic Univ. of Nijmegen (Netherlands); City Univ. of New York; Claremont Graduate School; Claremont-McKinna College; Cleveland State Univ.; College of the Virgin Islands; Cologne Univ. (Germany); Columbia Univ.; Cornell Univ.; Dartmouth College; Drake Univ.; Duke Univ.; East Carolina Univ.; Emory Univ.; Erasmus Univ. (Netherlands); Flinders Univ. (Australia), Fisk Univ.; Florida A & M Univ.; Florida State Univ.; Georgetown Univ.; Georgia State Univ., Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; Governors' State Univ (Illinois); Groningen Univ. (Netherlands); Hartford Univ.; Haverford College; Holy Cross Univ.; Howard Univ.; Jackson State Univ.; Johnson C. Smith College; Kent Univ.(Canterbury, U.K.); LaMoyne Univ.; Latrobe Univ. (Australia), Leiden Univ. (Netherlands); London Univ. (Goldsmiths' College, U.K.); Longwood College; Loyola Univ. (Chicago); Loyola Univ. (New Orleans); Mass. Institute of Technology; Madison Univ.; Michigan State Univ.; Millsaps College; Morehouse College; Morris College; New York Univ.; Murdoch Univ. (Australia), Norfolk State College; North Florida Univ.; Oregon State Univ.; Oxford Univ. (St. Anthony's College, U.K.); Penn. State Univ.; Philipps University, Marburg, Germany; Princeton Univ.; Purdue Univ.; Radford Univ.; Rider College; Ripon College; St. Augustine College; St. Cloud State College; St. John's College (Minnesota); St. Olaf College; Smith College; Southern Univ.; South Florida Univ.; Stanford Univ.; State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Cortland, Oswego, Plattsburgh & Pottsdam; Syracuse Univ.; Texas A & M; Tilburg Univ. (Netherlands); Trinity College (Hartford); Tufts Univ.; Tulane Univ.; Union College; Univ. of California at Berkeley, Irvine, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara & Santa Cruz; the Universities of Adelaide (Australia), Akron, Bielefeld (Germany), Bremen (Germany), Cape Town (South Africa), Chemnitz (Germany), Chicago, Cincinnati, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Denver, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Heidelberg (Germany), Houston, Illinois at Chicago, Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Indiana, Jena (Germany), Kansas, Kiel (Germany), KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), Marburg (Germany), Maryland, Massachusetts at Boston & Amherst, Miami (FL), Michigan at Ann Arbor and Flint, Minnesota, Missouri at Columbia, Muenster (Germany), Nebraska at Lincoln & Omaha, Nevada at Reno, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Osnabrueck (Germany), Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, Richmond, Toledo, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (St. Louis), Washington (Seattle), Wisconsin at Madison & Milwaukee; Witwatersrand (South Africa), and Wuerzburg (Germany), Vassar College; Virginia Commonwealth Univ.; Virginia State Univ.; Virginia Union Univ.; Washington & Lee University; Wellesley College; Wheaton College (MA); Willamette College; Williams College; Wisconsin State Univ. at River Falls; Wichita State Univ.; & Yale University.
Expert Testimony:
Witness before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the U.S. Senate, May 13, 1970; the Subcommittee on Education of the U.S. Senate, March 18, 1971; the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives, May 3,
1972; and the Committee on the Judiciary of the U. S. Senate, November 11, 1975.
Expert witness in public school desegregation cases:
Brewer v. School Board of Springfield, MA, 1965;
Brewer et al. v. School Board of Norfolk, VA 1969;
Bradley et al. v. School Board of Richmond, VA, 1971.
Court expert appointed by Judge Paul Egly in the racial desegregation case involving
the Los Angeles public schools: Crawford v. L.A. Unified School District, 1978-80.
Biographical Listings:
Who's Who in the World (Ed. 18, etc.)
Who's Who in America (Eds. 38-69)
Who’s Who in American Education (Ed. 6)
Who’s Who in Education (2011/12 Ed., etc.)
Who's Who in the East (Ed. 14, etc.)
Who's Who in the West (Ed. 19, etc.)
Who's Who in California (Ed. 16, etc.)
Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare (Ed. 5, etc.).
Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals (Ed. 1, etc.)
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Ed. 11, etc.)
American Men and Women of Science, The Social and
Behavioral Sciences, (Eds. 1, 2, 3, etc.)
Contemporary Authors (Ed. 33, etc.)
The Writers Directory
Dictionary of International Biography (Ed. 1, etc.)
The International Authors and Writers Who's Who (Ed. 10, etc.)
The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership (Ed. 6)
The Directory of Distinguished Americans (Ed. 3, etc.)
Men of Achievement (Ed. 5, etc.)
5000 Personalities of the World (Ed. 5, etc.)
2000 Notable American Men
Who's Who Among Human Service Professionals (Ed. 3, etc.)
International Who's Who of Professionals
The Blue Book: Leaders of the English Speaking World
Directory of American Scholars
Who's Who Among America's Teachers
Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare (ed. 7, etc.)
Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (ed. 11, etc.)
Thomas Pettigrew: Brown to Bakke, American Psychological
Association Monitor, 1979, 10 (9 & 10), 4-5.
A prejudice against prejudice, Psychology Today, 1986 (Dec.), 20 (12), 46-52.
Racism in the 1990s: Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew researches
the subtle forms of prejudice that have replaced blatant bigotry. University
of California, Santa Cruz Review, 1990 (Summer), 15 (2), 8-12.
Thomas F. Pettigrew, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
2008. Second edition. Pp. 234-235.
Cherry. F. (2008). Thomas F. Pettigrew (1931- ): Building on the scholar/activist
tradition in social psychology. In U. Wagner, L. Tropp, G. Finchilescu, &
C. Tredoux (Eds.). Improving intergroup relations - Building on the legacy
of Thomas F. Pettigrew. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Completed Books and Monographs:
Campbell, E. Q., & Pettigrew, T. F. Christians in racial crisis: A study of the
Little Rock ministry. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1959.
Pettigrew, T. F. Epitaph for Jim Crow. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1963.
Pettigrew, T. F. A profile of the Negro American. New York: Van Nostrand, 1964.