Tukufu Zuberi Awarded ASA's Oliver Cromwell Cox Prize

Tukufu Zuberi, the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and Chair of the Department of Sociology, has been awarded the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the American Sociological Association for his book White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Zuberi shares the honor with his co-editor, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a professor of sociology at Duke University. The award, which is selected by the ASA's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, recognizes sociologically related books published in the last two years that make a distinguished and significant contribution to the eradication of racism.

A scholar of African and African American studies and race relations, Zuberi is the author or editor of eight books and edited journal conference volumes including Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century, and Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie. He is the series editor of the General Demography of Africa and currently directs the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP), an international collaboration with African nations. A former director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies, Zuberi is also a popular host on the nationally syndicated (PBS) Public Broadcasting System television series The History Detectives.