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Dr. Henry Allen
Professor of Sociology
On faculty since 1998


Phone: (630) 752-7222
Fax: (630) 752)-5294
Email: Henry.L.Allen@wheaton.edu


Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, IL, 1988
   Dissertation titled, "The Career Mobility of Black College Faculty."

Faculty, B.A., Wheaton College, IL 1977

 
Professional and Personal Interests
Through the years Dr. Allen has been involved with the National Education Association (NEA), providing them with in-depth sociological analysis of current issues in education. Dr. Allen continues to work with several civic organizations that focus on promoting justice and facilitating discussion among African American leaders. He has served in urban churches, social service organizations, school districts, and criminal justice organizations. He has been a regular pulpit speaker and biblical instructor in several cities. Outside of the academic environment, Dr. Allen loves to spend time with his wife and eight children. Some of his hobbies include football, astronomy, and Star Trek.

Courses Taught

Membership in Professional Societies

  • North American Association of Christian Social Workers (NACSW)
  • New York Academy of Sciences
  • The Planetary Society
  • Woodrow Wilson Center of Scholars
  • The North American Association for Computational, Social and Organization Science

Research
Individual: Dr. Allen is currently involved in various research projects focusing on issues of academic organizations and systems, mathematical and computational sociology, and the sociology of science. Dr. Allen is currently working on several research projects for the American Bible Society and the National Education Association. He is involved in several on-going research projects, including a multivariate sociological study of organizational changes affecting 241 institutions of higher education in the Harvard Faculty Appointment and Policy Archive. Dr. Allen is also in the process of writing a book about the use of mathematical and computational models in analyzing academic systems as well as a reprisal of his doctoral dissertation study that focuses on organizational changes in historically black colleges.

With Students: He is supervising student research on the history of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wheaton College. He has served on the departmental committee charged with producing the departmental newsletter, planning special events, and organizing alumni functions.

Papers Published and/or Presented

Below is a sample of some of Dr. Allen's published works. If you are interested in a complete list of all of his works (articles, presentations, etc.), please contact him.

  • Allen, Henry L. "Veblen Revisited: Faculty Wordkload and Productivity in an Era of Privatization and Assessment" In The NEA 2006 Almanac of Higher Education, 81-94. Washington, D.C.: NEA Publishing, 2006.
  • Allen, Henry L. 2002. "The Organizational Demography of Faculty Tenure: 1980-2000." Pp. 59-72 in The NEA 2002 Almanac of Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: NEA Publishing.
  • Allen, Henry L. 2002. "The Quest for Biblical Community: Mixing Oral and Written Cultures." Pp. 167-181 in The Church of the New Millennium - True Unity (Harmony) in the Church, edited by D. Perry. Chicago, IL: Moody Press.
  • Allen, Henry. L. 2000. "Tenure: Why Faculty, and the Nation, Need It." Pp. 95-110 in Thought and Action, Fall 2000: The NEA Higher Education Journal. Washington, D.C.: NEA Publishing.
  • Allen, Henry L. 1999. "Evangelizing Professionals: Workers in the Field." Pp. 169-183 in Evangelism and Discipleship in African-American Churches, edited by L. June. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
  • Allen, Henry. L. 1999. "The Ideology of 'Equal Opportunity' in Modern School Systems." The Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 22(1-2):5-13.


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