Education
Ph.D., Social Policy and Social Research, Florence Heller School of Brandeis University, 1964
Research Focus
African American families, including the influence of the Black church
Career Highlights
- Author of seven books, including: The Black Church and Social
Reform (1999); Climbing Jacob's Ladder (1992); Black
Families in White America (1968, 1988); The Evolution of the
Black Family (1974); Children of the Storm: Black Children
in American Child Welfare (1971).
- Author of three major grants totaling $700,000 from the Ford Foundation
and the Lilly Endowment.
- Recipient of numerous professional awards including: Community Leadership
Award (1988) from the National Council of Negro Women; Marie Peters
Award from the National Council on Family Relations (1989); DuBois,
Johnson, Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association (1992);
Distinguished Scholar Award (1991) and Pioneer Sociologist Award (1993)
from the Association of Black Sociologists.
- Co-chair of Task Force on Children of the National Black Leadership
Commission on AIDS; Advisory Board Member of the National Parenting
Association, the National Institute of Responsible Fatherhood, and the
Program Center of the National Council of Negro Women.
- President and Professor of Sociology, Morgan State University, Baltimore,
Maryland.
- Vice President for Academic Affairs, Howard University, Washington,
D.C.
Selected Publications
Billingsley, A. (1999). Mighty like a river: The Black church and
social reform. New York: Oxford University Press.
Billingsley, A. (1998). "Introduction" to Robert B. Hill: The strengths
of African American families: Twenty five years later. Washington, DC:
R & B Publishing.
Rubin, R. H., Billingsley, A., & Caldwell, C. H. (1995). The Black church and
youth-at-risk for incarceration. Monograph on Youth in the 1990s, 4,
61-74.
Billingsley, A., & Caldwell, C. H. (1994). The social relevance of the contemporary
Black church. National Journal of Sociology, 8(1-2), 1-24.
Billingsley, A. (1992). Climbing Jacob's ladder: The enduring legacy of
African American families. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Billingsley, A. (1988). Black families in White America. New York:
Simon & Schuster.