DALTON CONLEY IS CURRENTLY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED SOCIAL
Research (CASSR) and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Prior to joining the faculty of NYU, he taught in the Departments of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. He has also been a visiting faculty member at both Yale and Princeton. His scholarly research focuses on how socio-economic status is transmitted across generations and the public policies which affect that process. In this vein, he studies racial inequalities, the measurement of class and social status, and how health and biology affect (and are affected by) social position. He has written or edited several books and numerous articles on these topics.

In addition to academic journals, Conley has written for The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation, Urban Latino Magazine, Salon, Feed Magazine, and various other trade publications. In these essays, he has addressed some of the same themes that emerge in his academic work; he has also written personal essays, opinion pieces and straightforward reporting. In addition to his research-related writing, he has authored a memoir, entitled, Honky. He is currently at work on a book entitled The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed, Which Don’t and Why to be published by Pantheon (cloth) and Vintage Books (paper) tentatively in the Fall of 2003.