Robert D. Bullard
Robert Bullard | |
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Born | Robert Doyle Bullard December 21, 1946 Elba, Alabama, U.S. |
Education | Alabama A&M University (BA) Clark Atlanta University (MA) Iowa State University (PhD) |
Spouse | Linda McKeever |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | Texas Southern University Clark Atlanta University University of California, Riverside |
Thesis | Voluntary Participation: Implications for Social Change and Conflict in a Community Decision Organization (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Richards |
Website | Official website |
Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former Dean of the
Early life and education
Born in Elba, Alabama, Bullard is the son of Nehemiah and Myrtle Brundidge Bullard; he was the fourth of five children.[3] He graduated from Elba's Mulberry Heights High School as class salutatorian in 1964.[4]
Continuing his education, Bullard received a bachelor's degree in government at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, in 1968. Upon graduating from college, he served two years in the United States Marine Corps, at an "air control station in North Carolina".[4]
Bullard's M.A. in sociology was earned at Clark Atlanta University in 1972. Bullard obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University in 1976, under the supervision of urban sociologist Robert ("Bob") O. Richards.[4][5]
Environmental justice work
Bean v. Southwestern Waste Management, Inc.
In 1979 Bullard's wife, attorney Linda McKeever Bullard, represented Margaret Bean and other Houston residents in their struggle against a plan that would locate a municipal landfill next to their homes.
Early work
Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole
Advocacy
In 1990 Bullard (then at the University of California-Riverside) became one leader of a group of prominent academics, later known as the Michigan Group, including
Bullard also played a key role in the organising of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991. Starting out with a list of only 30 people of color groups working on environmental issues, Bullard expanded the list to over 300 groups by calling the leaders he knew personally and gathering information on other groups they had come across. It was these groups that attended the Leadership Summit in October 1991, at which a list of seventeen 'Principles of Environmental Justice' was adopted.[9] Bullard's expanded list eventually included groups from outside the United States, including Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico, and has been published as the "People of Color Environmental Group Directory" by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.[7] In 1994
Bullard continued to act on behalf of struggling African American groups across the U.S. It was his expert testimony that won the case of Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT) v. Louisiana Energy Services (LES) for the environmental justice group, directly causing the federal government's decision to deny the LES's permit for a uranium enrichment plant in Forest Grove and Center Springs, Louisiana.[10] In 2006 when asked what keeps him going in his quest for environmental justice, Bullard answered, "People who fight... People who do not let the garbage trucks and the landfills and the petrochemical plants roll over them. That has kept me in this movement for the last 25 years. And in the last 10 years, we've been winning: lawsuits are being won, reparations are being paid, apologies are being made. These companies have been put on notice that they can't do this anymore, anywhere."[2]
Academic career
- Associate/ Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, 1976-88[5]
- Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, 1987–88
- Associate Professor/ Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, 1988–89
- Professor/ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside, 1989–94
- Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994-2011
- Dean, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University, 2011–present[11]
Awards and recognition
- Conservation Achievement Award, National Wildlife Federation, 1990
- One of thirteen "Environmental Leaders of the Century", Newsweek, 2008
- Building Economic Alternatives Award, Co-op America, 2008[12]
- John Muir Award, Sierra Club, 2013[13]
- American Bar Association, Award for Excellence in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Stewardship, 2015
- Iowa State University Alumni Association, Alumni Merit Award, 2015
- Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, 2019[14]
- 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award (Champions of the Earth)[15]
- Member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, 2021[16]
- University of California Berkeley Ecology Law Quarterly, Environmental Leadership Award, Environmental Leadership Award, 2022[17]
- The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022.[18]
- University of Johannesburg, Honorary Doctorate, 2022[19]
- Georgetown University, Honorary Doctorate, 2022[20]
- Membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2022[21]
Selected publications
- Bullard, RD (1983). Solid waste sites and the black Houston community. Sociological Inquiry 53, pp. 273–288.
- Bullard, RD, ed (1983). Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston: South End Press.
- Bullard, RD (1987). Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust. College Station Texas A&M University Press.
- Bullard, RD (1989). In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- Bullard, RD, ed (2000a). [1990]. ISBN 978-0813367927
- Bullard, RD, ed (1994). Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- Bullard, RD, Grigsby, JE, III, & Lee, C (1994). "Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies.
- Bullard, RD, & Johnson, GS, eds (1997). Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
- Bullard, RD, Johnson, GS, & Wright, BH (1997). Confronting environmental injustice: It's the right thing to do. Environmentalism and Race, Gender, Class Issues. Race Gender and Class 5 (1), pp. 63–79.
- Bullard, RD, & Johnson, GS (1998). Environmental and economic justice: Implications for public policy. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy 4 (4), pp. 137–148.
- Bullard, RD, Johnson, GS, & Torres, AO (1999, Fall). Atlanta: Megasprawl. Forum: For Applied Research and Public Policy 14 (3), pp. 17–23.
- Bullard, RD, Johnson, GS, & Torres, AO, eds (2000). Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press.
- Bullard, RD, Johnson, GS, & Torres, AO (2000, February/March). Dismantling transportation apartheid through environmental justice. Progress: Surface Transportation Policy Project 10 (1), pp. 4–5
- Bullard, RD (2000b). "People of Color Environmental Groups Directory." Flint, MI: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
- Bullard, RD, ed (2003). Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Bullard, RD (2004). Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity. Boston: South End Press.
- Bullard, RD (2005). The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- Bullard, RD (2007). Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Bullard, RD (2007). The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race and the Politics of Place. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Bullard, RD (2009). Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
See also
- History of African-Americans in Houston
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
- ^ a b c Dicum, Gregory (March 15, 2006). "Dicum, Gregory. 2006. "Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice," Grist, March 15". Grist.org. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ^ "Robert D. Bullard", Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Institute (MELDI), University of Michigan, n.d. Accessed: December 11, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Robert Bullard," The History Makers, April 12, 2011 (video). Accessed: June 16, 2012.
- ^ a b Robert D. Bullard, Curriculum Vitae. Accessed: May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Robert Bullard: Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
It was in Texas that Bullard met his future wife, Linda McKeever. In 1978, Bullard was asked by Linda to collect data for a lawsuit, Bean v. Southwestern Waste Corporation she had filed in federal court involving the placement of garbage facilities in mostly black Houston neighborhoods. This was the first lawsuit that charged environmental discrimination using federal civil rights laws.
- ^ a b Johnson, Glenn S. (n.d.) "Robert Bullard", Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University Accessed: December 11, 2012.
- ^ Cole & Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement, (New York University Press, New York & London), 2001
- ^ "Principles of Environmental Justice". WEACT.org. October 27, 1991. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ^ 'In The Matter Of Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.', Decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, May 1, 1997
- ^ TSU, "Message from the Dean". Accessed: May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Robert D. Bullard". Weact.org. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ^ Mock, Brentin. (2013, September 24). "Robert Bullard, pioneer in environmental justice, is honored by the Sierra Club," WashingtonPost.com. Accessed: September 25, 2013.
- ^ "Dr. Robert Bullard: The Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication". Eventbrite.
- ^ Programme, UN Environment (November 26, 2020). "Lifetime Achievement". Champions of the Earth.
- ^ "White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council | Environmental Justice". The White House. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Ecology Law Quarterly (ELQ) 50th Anniversary Celebration and Environmental Leadership Awards Banquet". Berkeley Law. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner". The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. December 7, 2022. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Prof Robert Bullard a defender of environmental and climate justice receives honorary doctorate from UJ, Faculty of Humanities". University of Johannesburg. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients". Governance. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Texas Southern University | TSU's "Father of Environmental Justice" selected to join American Academy of Arts & Sciences". www.tsu.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
External links
- "Robert Bullard," The History Makers, April 12, 2011 (videos)
- Dicum, Gregory. 2006. "Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice," Grist, March 15
- "Robert Doyle Bullard," DoOneThing.org
- Official Dr. Robert Bullard Website
- Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
- Robert D. Bullard Dean's Page at Texas Southern University
- Marathon for Justice Film, 2016