Roland G. Fryer Jr
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Roland G. Fryer Jr. is a 28 year-old professor of economics at Harvard University, currently a junior fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows. In addition to being affiliated with Harvard University and the Society of Fellows, he maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Fryer is widely regarded to be one of Black America and Harvard's rising stars, having published numerous papers of high quality in the past few years. The New York Times ran an extensive profile of Fryer, entitled "Toward a Unified Theory of Black America" in March of 2005 that dealt extensively with Fryer's rough upbringing: Fryer's mother left when he was very young, and his father, who beat his son, was convicted of rape, effectively leaving Roland to fend for himself.
A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, which Fryer attended on an athletic scholarship and from where he graduated in 2.5 years while holding down a full-time job, Fryer pursued his Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University. He has published several papers with Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist and author of Freakonomics, as well as with Glenn Loury, one of the most prominent black economists in the nation.
It is expected that with the completion of his three years with the Society of Fellows at the end of this academic year (2005-2006), Fryer will take on a professorship - with a teaching responsibility - at Harvard University. He would most likely join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which instructs both Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Science.
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