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Henry Lee Allen is Professor of Sociology (and Chairperson) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wheaton College. He has earned graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. Before his current appointment, Professor Allen held faculty positions at Bethel College (MN), Calvin College (MI), the Margaret S. Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester (NY), and the Rochester Institute of Technology (NY). He has published numerous articles about sociology, ethnicity (diversity), and American higher education. His most recent publications have investigated the organizational dynamics of workload and productivity issues for the next generation of faculty in higher education. Dr. Allen’s major research interests include the sociology of higher education, complex organizations, criminology, and mathematical sociology. A member of the Oxford Round Table, Hank has also held professional memberships with the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Mathematical Association, the Game Theory Society, and the Mathematical Association of America, among others. Moreover, Professor Allen has been associated with a variety of national and regional agencies, including the National Education Association, FBI Academy and other law enforcement venues, the American Bible Society (studies in the sociology of religion), various school systems, the Aspen Institute, the Kettering Foundation, New England Complex Systems Institute, and Wolfram Research (Mathematica).
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- 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
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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.
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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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