Robert D. Bullard

Robert D. Bullard "is the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. Professor Bullard has served as an expert witness and testified on dozens of civil rights and environmental justice lawsuits and hearings.  He is the author of twelve books that address environmental justice, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community health, neighborhood reinvestment, housing, transportation, suburban sprawl, smart growth, and regional equity.  He co-edited with Charles Lee (Commission for Racial Justice) and J. Eugene Grigsby (UCLA) Residential Apartheid:  The American Legacy (UCLA, 1994).  He also co-edited with Glenn S. Johnson Just Transportation:  Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (New Society Publishers, 1997) and Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres Sprawl City: Race, Politics and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press, 2000). His most recent books are entitled Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Earthscan/MIT Press, 2003) and Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity (South End Press, 2004)."


 * Co-Chair, African American Forum on Race and Regionalism