William A. Darity
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and Business at Duke University. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, and the economics of reparations. In 2005, he launched the subspecialty of stratification economics. Darity is a 2025 member of the ɫӰapp, 2024 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, a 2023 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, a 2023 Distinguished Fellow of the Southern Economic Association, the 2022 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and a 2021 Fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He received the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award from the National Economic Association in 2012. With A. Kirsten Mullen, he is a coauthor of award-winning From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (2020), and they are co-editors with Lucas Hubbard of The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (2023). Darity also coedited the 2022 publication, The Pandemic Divide: How COVID-19 Increased Inequality in America with Gwendolyn Wright and Lucas Hubbard.