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Overview
Faculty
Majors
Sociology
Anthropology
Courses
Special
Resources
Opportunities
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Professional and Personal Interests
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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.
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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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.
Faculty continued: Professor Kersten Bayt Priest
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