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John Major Eason, Sr. is the 2007-2008 Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago.  He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago whose interests include urban sociology, sociology of punishment, social control, race/ethnicity, and social change.  In 2006, he received the Robert E. Park Lectureship in the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology to teach undergraduate and graduate students about the intersection of race, punishment and inequality.


John, a native of Evanston, Illinois received a B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and a M.P.P. from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in 2002.  Before entering graduate school, John worked as a church-based community organizer around criminal justice issues.  He also served as a political organizer most notably for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. 





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Center for the Study of Race, Poverty, and Culture

University of Chicago

5733 South University Avenue

Chicago, Illinois 60637

T (773) 702-8063

F (773) 834-2000


 

Links to:

 

The University of Chicago

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CSRPC

csrpc.uchicago.edu/


The Chicago School of Sociology

sociology.uchicago.edu

 

Harris School of Public Policy

harrisschool.uchicago.edu

 

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

uiuc.edu

 

 

Last updated August 2007

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