Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. Receives AEA Distinguished Scholar Award

Last year Founding director, William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr., was named a 2024 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association (AEA). On January 5th, 2025 he received the award at the ASSA Annual Meeting.

Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, is one of just four scholars to receive this honor in 2024. Fewer than 200 economists have been named an AEA Distinguished Fellow since the award began in 1965.

Learn more about the award here: AEA Distinguished Fellows

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