Roland Fryer

Professor, Department of Economics

Roland Fryer, Jr., is a professor of economics at Harvard University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a former junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows--one of academia's most prestigious research posts.  In January 2008, at the age of 30, he became the youngest African American to receive tenure from Harvard.  He has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Inaugual Alphonse Fletcher Award ("Guggenheims for race issues").