Robert D. Bullard

Robert Bullard
Born
Robert Doyle Bullard

(1946-12-21) December 21, 1946 (age 77)
EducationAlabama A&M University (BA)
Clark Atlanta University (MA)
Iowa State University (PhD)
SpouseLinda McKeever
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsTexas Southern University
Clark Atlanta University
University of California, Riverside
Thesis Voluntary Participation: Implications for Social Change and Conflict in a Community Decision Organization  (1976)
Doctoral advisorRobert Richards
WebsiteOfficial website

Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and is currently a Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice".[1][2] He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.

  1. ^ Buckley, Cara (September 12, 2022). "At 75, the Father of Environmental Justice Meets the Moment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  2. ^ Dicum, Gregory (March 15, 2006). "Dicum, Gregory. 2006. "Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice," Grist, March 15". Grist.org. Retrieved December 11, 2012.