Victor Ray

Victor Ray was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD from Duke University and BA from Vassar. Dr. Ray is a Carr Center Fellow at Harvard University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research has been funded by the Ford Foundation and published in journals such as the American Sociological Review and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. As an active public scholar, he has written social and critical commentary for outlets such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, and Boston Review. Dr. Ray currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.