The Blalock Lecture Series and the Getting To Know ISR series are pleased to co-present Dr. Robert Taylor and David Thomas in a talk on ISR's Program for Research on Black Americans and the associated data archived at ICPSR.

Robert Joseph Taylor, MSW, Ph.D., is the Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor and the Harold Johnson Endowed Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. He is the Director of the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently on the editorial board of Society and Mental Health and Race and Social Problems and has served on the editorial boards of Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Family Relations. Professor Taylor has published 3 books and over 175 journal articles in two major areas—African American family social support networks and African American religious participation. He has been Principal Investigator of several grants from the National Institute on Aging which examine the role of religion in the lives of Black and White elderly adults. He has been Co-Principal Investigator with James Jackson on several grants from the National Institute of Mental Health on the correlates of mental health and mental illness among Black Americans including the only major national probability surveys of Black Americans (The National Survey of Black Americans and the National Survey of American Life). He has been selected as one of the 250 Highly Cited researchers in the General Social Science Category by ISIHighlyCited.com (Creators of the Citation Index and Current Contents). The selection of a researcher is based on the total number of citations received by that individual as recorded in the ISI database between 1981-1999.

David Thomas supervises staff in both the General Archive and Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD). He began his ICPSR career by processing ABC News/Washington Post and CBS News/New York Times polls. Now, his team is responsible for processing public opinion polls for ICPSR. In addition to polling data, his team processes the National Election Pool data, the American National Election Survey data, American Community Survey, and the Latino National Survey for ICPSR.


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Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. The lecture series is held in honor of Tad Blalock, a distinguished statistician and sociologist who was an Official Representative to the Consortium and a member of its Executive Council.

Co-sponsored with ISR's Perspectives Committee as part of the Getting to Know ISR series.

These lectures are all FREE to join and open to the public.