Dr. Darnell Hunt: Director of Bunche Center for African-American Studies @ UCLA

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Leshell Hatley in Places of Scholarly Work, Scholarly Celebrations

Dr. Darnell Hunt, Professor of Sociology, has been the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies at UCLA since 2001. The Center is nationally renowned for the research it conducts and publishes on all aspects of the African American experience. Dr. Hunt’s research interests include race, media, and cultural studies. As Director of the Bunche Center, he and his colleagues have conducted research in a wide variety of areas from student enrollment and success in California Universities to exploring the representations of African Americans in prime time television.

Dr. Darnell Hunt, UCLA

He was featured on NPR in 2006 with the findings of on Black Student Enrollment at UCLA. In 2006, Dr. Hunt and others called UCLA’s admission policies racist. His continued coverage of the issue appeared in a 2008 LA Times article entitled, UCLA’s New Admission Policy Rights a Wrong.

He is the author of: Screening the Los Angeles “Riots:” Race, Seeing, and Resistance, O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality, and Representing “Los Angeles:” Media, Space, and Place in the anthology “From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory” edited by Michael Dear.

EDUCATION

June 1994 Ph. D in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
December 1991 M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
June 1988 M.B.A., Georgetown University
December 1984 A.B. in Journalism, University of Southern California

He is featured in this USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) discussion exploring the future of civil rights and equity in America (@ ~minute 35).

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