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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2002 - Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Walter R. Allen is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Education, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including Higher Education Research Studies, Critical Race Theory in Education, Race, History, and American Society, Education Discipline and Inequality, Global Educational Policies and Reforms, Higher Education Practices and Engagement, and Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies.

Recent publications by Walter R. Allen include the following papers:

  • "College Is...: Focusing on the College Knowledge of Gang-Associated Latino Young Men" (2020) in Urban Education
  • "Hidden in Plain Sight: Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America" (2020) in Quaderni di Sociologia
  • "8. Doctoral Pathways via Racial Health Equity: Bridging the Apartheid of Knowledge with California State University Alumni" (2023) in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Walter R. Allen are:

  • Channel C. McLewis
  • Chantal Jones
  • Gadise Regassa
  • Audrey Devost
  • Cymone Mack

Their publications have appeared in venues such as Quaderni di Sociologia, Urban Education, and Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education.

Walter R. Allen has been recognized with awards including the Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008, and the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association in 2002.

Best Publications

  • The Color of Success: African-American College Student Outcomes at Predominantly White and Historically Black Public Colleges and Universities

    Walter R. Allen

  • Enhancing Campus Climates for Racial/Ethnic Diversity: Educational Policy and Practice

    Sylvia Hurtado;Jeffrey F. Milem;Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen;Walter R. Allen

  • “Assume the Position . . . You Fit the Description”: Psychosocial Experiences and Racial Battle Fatigue Among African American Male College Students

    William A. Smith;Walter R. Allen;Lynette L. Danley

  • The color line and the quality of life in America

    Reynolds Farley;Walter Recharde Allen

  • Sociodemographic and environmental correlates of racial socialization by Black parents.

    Michael C. Thornton;Linda M. Chatters;Robert Joseph Taylor;Walter R. Allen

  • Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Climate for Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education. ERIC Digest.

    Sylvia Hurtado;Jeffrey Milem;Alma Clayton-Pedersen;Walter Allen

  • Black student, White campus: Structural, interpersonal, and psychological correlates of success.

    Walter R. Allen

  • A Backward Glance Forward: Past, Present and Future Perspectives on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    Walter Recharde Allen;Joseph O. Jewell

  • Racial Privilege in the Professoriate: An Exploration of Campus Climate, Retention, and Satisfaction

    Uma M. Jayakumar;Tyrone C. Howard;Walter R. Allen;June C. Han

  • College in Black and White: African American students in predominantly White and in historically Black public universities.

    Walter Recharde Allen;Edgar G. Epps;Nesha Z. Haniff

  • Keeping Race in Place: Racial Microaggressions and Campus Racial Climate at the University of California, Berkeley

    Daniel Solóranzo;Walter R. Allen;Grace Carroll

  • Black Colleges Vs. White Colleges

    Walter R. Allen

  • Beginnings: The Social and Affective Development of Black Children

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Geraldine Kearse Brookins;Walter Recharde Allen

  • ‘You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands!’: campus culture, Black misandric microaggressions, and racial battle fatigue

    William A. Smith;Jalil Bishop Mustaffa;Chantal M. Jones;Tommy J. Curry

  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Honoring the Past, Engaging the Present, Touching the Future.

    Walter R. Allen;Joseph O. Jewell;Kimberly A. Griffin;De'Sha S. Wolf

  • The College-Choice Process for Asian Pacific Americans: Ethnicity and SocioEconomic Class in Context

    Robert T. Teranishi;Miguel Ceja;Anthony Lising Antonio;Walter Recharde Allen

  • The Black Academic: Faculty Status among African Americans in U.S. Higher Education

    Walter R. Allen;Edgar G. Epps;Elizabeth A. Guillory;Susan A. Suh

  • The Search for Applicable Theories of Black Family Life.

    Walter R. Allen

  • Achieving the College Dream? Examining Disparities in Access to College Information Among High Achieving and Non-High Achieving Latina Students

    Erin Kimura-Walsh;Erica K. Yamamura;Kimberly A. Griffin;Walter R. Allen

  • Affirmative Action, Educational Equity and Campus Racial Climate: A Case Study of the University of Michigan Law School

    Walter R. Allen;Daniel Solorzano

Frequent Co-Authors

Reynolds Farley
Reynolds Farley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hector F. Myers
Hector F. Myers Vanderbilt University
Sylvia Hurtado
Sylvia Hurtado University of California, Los Angeles
Marcelo Knobel
Marcelo Knobel State University of Campinas
Robert Joseph Taylor
Robert Joseph Taylor University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stacey Sinclair
Stacey Sinclair Princeton University
Linda M. Chatters
Linda M. Chatters University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen F. Heinemann
Stephen F. Heinemann Salk Institute for Biological Studies
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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