John M. Wallace Jr.
{{short description|American sociologist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = John Mckee Wallace, Jr.
| alma_mater = University of Chicago
University of Michigan
| workplaces = University of Pittsburgh
University of Michigan
| thesis_title = Black-White differences in adolescents' cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use.
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/105812
| thesis_year = 1991
}}
John Mckee Wallace, Jr. is an American sociologist who is the David E. Epperson Chair and Professor, Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity at the University of Pittsburgh.
Education and early career
Wallace completed his undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Chicago. He moved to the University of Michigan for his graduate studies, where he earned a doctoral degree in 1991. His doctoral research considered differences between the cigarette, alcohol and marijuana use of young people and how this was influenced by ethnicity.{{Cite thesis|title=Black-White differences in adolescents' cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use.|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/105812|access-date=2020-07-13|website=deepblue.lib.umich.edu|date=1991 |hdl=2027.42/105812|type=Thesis |last1=Wallace |first1=John Mckee }} In 1991 Wallace was awarded an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, and remained at the University of Michigan, where he was eventually promoted to associate professor.{{Cite web|title=John Wallace, Jr. {{!}} University of Michigan Youth and Social Issues Program (YSI)|url=http://youthandsocialissues.com/people/john-wallace-jr/|access-date=2020-07-13|language=en-US}}
Research and career
Wallace joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Center on Race and Social Problems Comm-Univer-City of Pittsburgh project, which combines research, teaching and social work to ameliorate social problems that disproportionately impact people who are economically disadvantaged.{{Cite web|title=John M. Wallace, Jr., Ph.D. {{!}} Center on Race and Social Problems {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://crsp.pitt.edu/person/john-m-wallace-jr-phd|access-date=2020-07-12|website=crsp.pitt.edu}} As part of this effort, Wallace coordinates the Pitt Assisted Communities and Schools (PACS) project, which promotes community engagement of students and staff from the University of Pittsburgh with children and young people in Homewood.{{Cite web|title=Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools {{!}} University of Pittsburgh {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://pittpacs.pitt.edu/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=pittpacs.pitt.edu}} PACS looks to improve the physical and mental health of children and families, as well as developing their social and economic capacity.{{Cite web|title=About PACS {{!}} Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://pittpacs.pitt.edu/about-pacs|access-date=2020-07-13|website=pittpacs.pitt.edu}} They run three main research streams, including the (i) African American parenting project, which looks to engage parents in their children's academic success,{{Cite web|title=African American Parenting Project {{!}} Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://pittpacs.pitt.edu/programs-and-research/african-american-parenting-project|access-date=2020-07-13|website=pittpacs.pitt.edu}} (ii) Just Discipline project, which uses an evidence-based approach to reduce exclusionary discipline in school{{Cite web|title=Just Discipline Project {{!}} Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://pittpacs.pitt.edu/justdiscipline|access-date=2020-07-13|website=pittpacs.pitt.edu}} and (iii) Justice Scholars project, which educates adolescents about social justice.{{Cite web|title=Justice Scholars {{!}} Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=http://pittpacs.pitt.edu/programs-and-research/justice-scholars|access-date=2020-07-13|website=pittpacs.pitt.edu}} Working with James Hugley, Wallace showed that Black students were in Pittsburgh were suspended at twice the rate of their white counterparts.{{Cite web|last=O'Toole|first=Bill|date=2018-08-21|title=Pitt study looks at disparities in school suspensions|url=https://nextpittsburgh.com/latest-news/pitt-study-looks-at-disparities-in-school-suspensions/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=NEXTpittsburgh|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Pitt report highlights racial disparities in school discipline in Allegheny County|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2018/08/22/University-Pittsburgh-report-racial-disparities-school-discipline-Heinz-endowments-allegheny-county/stories/201808210249|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|language=en}}
Alongside his work on education, Wallace leads an National Institute on Drug Abuse research programme into substance use by American adolescents.{{Cite web|title=Wallace, John {{!}} Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion {{!}} Baylor University|url=https://www.baylorisr.org/scholars/w/john-wallace/|access-date=2020-07-13|language=en-US}} The project, Monitoring the Future, has studied the relationship between ethnicity and American adolescent substance use.{{Cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Yonette F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aon2DAAAQBAJ&q=National+Institute+on+Drug+Abuse+john+wallace+jr&pg=PA105|title=Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth|last2=Price|first2=LeShawndra N.|date=2016-09-01|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-94-017-7491-8|language=en}}
In 2015 Wallace was made a professor of business at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. Here he established the ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, agriculture and math) education programme for low-income African American communities.{{Cite web|title=John Wallace Named Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development|url=http://pittwire.pitt.edu/news/john-wallace-named-vice-provost-faculty-diversity-and-development|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Pittwire|language=en}} In 2020 Wallace was named Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Development.
Awards and honours
- 2012 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award{{Cite web|title=Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award|url=https://urbanaffairsassociation.org/awards/marilyn-j-gittell-activist-scholar-award/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Urban Affairs Association|language=en-US}}
- 2015 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Public Service Award{{Cite web|title=Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching, Research, and Public Service Awards Announced {{!}} Pitt Chronicle {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=https://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/story/chancellor%E2%80%99s-distinguished-teaching-research-and-public-service-awards-announced|access-date=2020-07-12|website=www.chronicle.pitt.edu}}
- 2016 YWCA Racial Justice Award{{Cite web|title=ALCOSAN Executive Director Honored by YWCA|url=https://www.alcosan.org/news-and-events/featured-news/news/2016/11/17/alcosan-executive-director-honored-by-ywca|access-date=2020-07-12|website=Alcosan|language=en}}
- 2017 Martin Luther King Distinguished Individual Leadership Award{{Cite web|title=John Wallace {{!}} School of Social Work {{!}} University of Pittsburgh|url=https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/john-wallace|access-date=2020-07-12|website=www.socialwork.pitt.edu}}
- 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare{{Cite web|title=John M. Wallace|url=https://aaswsw.org/member/john-m-wallace/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare|date=29 January 2019 |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite journal|last1=Wallace|first1=John M.|last2=Goodkind|first2=Sara|last3=Wallace|first3=Cynthia M.|last4=Bachman|first4=Jerald G.|date=2008|title=Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in School Discipline among U.S. High School Students: 1991-2005|journal=The Negro Educational Review|volume=59|issue=1–2|pages=47–62|issn=0548-1457|pmc=2678799|pmid=19430541}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Bachman|first1=J. G.|last2=Wallace|first2=J. M.|last3=O'Malley|first3=P. M.|last4=Johnston|first4=L. D.|last5=Kurth|first5=C. L.|last6=Neighbors|first6=H. W.|date=1998-12-01|title=Racial/Ethnic differences in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American high school seniors, 1976-89|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=81|issue=3|pages=372–377|doi=10.2105/ajph.81.3.372|issn=0090-0036|pmc=1405013|pmid=1994746}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Wallace|first1=John M.|last2=Bachman|first2=Jerald G.|last3=O'Malley|first3=Patrick M.|last4=Schulenberg|first4=John E.|last5=Cooper|first5=Shauna M.|author-link5=Shauna Cooper|last6=Johnston|first6=Lloyd D.|date=2003|title=Gender and ethnic differences in smoking, drinking and illicit drug use among American 8th, 10th and 12th grade students, 1976–2000|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00282.x|journal=Addiction|language=en|volume=98|issue=2|pages=225–234|doi=10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00282.x|pmid=12534428|hdl=2027.42/73026|issn=1360-0443|via=|hdl-access=free}}
Personal life
Wallace is married with four children.{{Cite web|last=Baron|first=Jennifer|date=2018-08-15|title=NEXT Up: John Wallace on why you should get to know one of Pittsburgh's "greatest neighborhoods"|url=https://nextpittsburgh.com/neighborhoods/homewood/next-up-john-wallace-on-why-you-should-get-to-know-one-of-pittsburghs-greatest-neighborhoods/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=NEXTpittsburgh|language=en-US}} Since 2004 Wallace has served as Senior Pastor of the Bible Center Church.{{Cite web|title=/ccpa/|url=https://archive.triblive.com/ccpa/?page=/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/homewood-cafe-hopes-to-create-bridge-between-neighborhoods/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=TribLIVE.com|language=en-US}} The church was founded by his grandparents, Elder Ralph and Mother Groce, in 1956.{{Cite web|title=Bible Center Church {{!}} ABOUT|url=https://www.biblecenterpgh.org/about|access-date=2020-07-13|website=www.biblecenterpgh.org}} Through the church, Wallace leads Own Our Own, a start-up hub for African-American entrepreneurs.{{Cite web|title=People|url=https://www.ownourown.org/people|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Own Our Own|language=en}} He is President of the Board of Directors of Operation Better Block, an organisation that looks to support the Homewood community through strategising and organising.{{Cite web|title=Mission / Vision|url=https://www.obbinc.org/mission-vision/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=www.obbinc.org|archive-date=2020-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715123040/https://www.obbinc.org/mission-vision/|url-status=dead}} In 2016, Wallace opened the Everyday Cafe, which looks to bring together the Homewood community.{{Cite web|title=Homewood cafe hopes to create bridge between neighborhoods – Homewood Community Development Collaborative|url=https://homewood-collaborative.org/2016/11/homewood-cafe-hopes-to-create-bridge-between-neighborhoods/|access-date=2020-07-13|language=en-US}}
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