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Joseph Wilson is the director of the Graduate Center for Worker Education and selected the site and helped build the Center new 44,000 sq. ft. state-of-the art teaching facilities in lower Manhattan. A political science professor and labor scholar, Professor Wilson is the founder of Brooklyn College's Center for Diversity and author of the College's first Diversity Plan. He holds leadership positions on CUNY's Affirmative Action Committee, the Diversity Grant Committee, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Professional Staff Congress, PSC-CUNY Grants Research Executive Committee and the Presidential Search-Board of Trustee Committees for CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College. Professor Wilson received a dual master in philosophy and politics from Columbia University in addition to a Ph.D. in political science, where he was a National Science Fellow. His publications include: Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy, Tearing Down the Color Bar, The Re-education of the American Working Class; Black Labor in America: An Annotated Bibliography, and was a major contributor to the PBS documentary A. Philip Randolph: Peace and Jobs. Professor Wilson has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Social Movements, The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers at Stanford Universityand as Schomburg Fellow founded the African American Labor Archives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This oral, video and documentary history collection is currently housed at the New York Public Library. Professor Wilson serves as senior editor and board chair of Working USA: Journal of Labor and Society. As a race and labor scholar, he has won numerous teaching awards including Tow Professor (1993-95), Intel Mentor Award (1998-1999), Faculty Appreciation Awards, Excelsior Favorite Teacher in Political Science (1997, 1998, & 2000) and Broeklundian Award, (1998 & 2000). Education: Books and Publications: Awards, Honors and Fellowships: Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Professional Leadership: |