DALTON CONLEY-INTELLECTUAL & ACADEMIC
Dalton Conley, PhD
DALTON CONLEY, PHD
SOCIOLOGIST
Dalton Conley is a sociologist of considerable fame. He is a University Professor in Sociology at Princeton, the highest designation possible for an endowed chair tenured professor at Princeton University. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing.
Conley’s scholarship has primarily dealt with the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic and health status from parents to children. His published work has explored the impact of parental wealth in explaining racial attainment gaps, within-family stratification processes impact on achievement, and genetics as a driver of social mobility.
CHILDHOOD & EARLY YEARS
“As recalled in Honky , Dalton Conley’s childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes Dalton’s childhood unique.
THE UNIVERSITY ERA
An intellectually gifted child, Conley attended Stuyvesant High School, in Manhattan, a nationally-ranked, specialized magnet school. Stuyvesant High School was established in 1904, and has since its inception required a rigorous admissions exam open to all students from public schools across New York City.
So prestigious is the alumni roster of this college-preparatory high school, commonly called "Stuy" (STY) that it includes four Nobel laureates. In addition to Dalton Conley, ‘STY’ also counts physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, economist Thomas Sowell, mathematician Paul Cohen, chemist Roald Hoffmann, biologist Eric Lander, and chess grandmaster Robert Hessby, among its graduates.
After high school, Dalton Conley was off to California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in humanities. A ‘Public Ivy’ with few peers, he stood out in sea of talented students, at one of the world’s great citadels of scholarly study in the Humanities.
Following Cal Berkeley, he returned to New York City where he earned a Master’s degree in Biology, and went further to secure Ph.D. in biology, focused on Genomics, both from NYU in 2014.
With his credentials from NYU, Dalton Conley joined a great Conley legacy there. He followed Charles Swinger Conley and Charles Cameron Conley, published scholars in their respective fields of law and mathematics.
NOTORIETY THROUGH BOOKS
Beginning in 1999, Dalton would continue his ascent with the publishing of books exploring socioeconomic subjects.
Professor Dalton Conley debates Julian Bond, who was cousin of Conley in-law Thelma Aline Bond Conley of Nashville, Tennessee.
Selected awards and honors
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019).[13]
Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (2018).[14]
Otis Dudley Duncan Award, American Sociological Association (2018).[15]
Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).[16]
Guggenheim Fellow (2011).[17]
Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations (2007).[18]
Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation (2005).[19]
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2001).[20]
Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1999).[21]
Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association (1997).[22]
