D. AUGUSTUS ANDERSON 1155 Tremont St #9065, Boston, MA 02120 646.519.1186 (c) daanders@email.unc.edu EDUCATION University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Ph.D. City and Regional Planning Expected Date of Graduation: May 2015 Dissertation: Blacks Head South For A New El Dorado: A Study of Micro and Macro Level Factors in Southern Locational Attainment, 1970-2010 Committee: Kyle Crowder, Ted Mouw, Mai Nguyen (chair), T. William Lester, Bill Rohe Dissertation Exams: Neighborhood Stratification, Migration and Mobility Howard University, Washington, DC Masters of Arts in History, May 2006 Thesis: Booker T. Washington and African Development: Pragmatic Partnership and Influence, 1890-1915 Howard University, Washington, DC Bachelors of Arts in History, May 2004 Magnum cum laude AREAS OF INTEREST Housing and Community Development, Housing and Residential Characteristics, Segregation and Mobility, Racial and Ethnic Inequality, Demography ACADEMIC AFFILIATION Special Sworn Status Research Associate at the Center for Economic Studies, Boston Research Data Center of the U.S. Bureau of Census and NBER, 2012-present RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Assessment of New Affordable Housing Strategies in Washington, DC. Ford Foundation and the Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Summer 2011 Tracing the Causes of Racial Wealth Disparity. Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Spring 2011
Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities (NSF funded project). Institute of the Environment, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Living Cities Project: Cleveland Workforce Development. Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill December 2009 August 2010 Reality Education and Assets Partnership (REAP) Project. Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill August 2008 December 2009 Historically Black College and University-Community Partnerships. Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill May 2008 August 2008 Charlotte Health and Housing Project. Center for Urban Regional Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill May 2008 July 2008 Warriors Project: American Indian and Black interaction in the 19 th century American West. National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Fall 2002 Summer 2004 To Protect and Secure: The Buffalo Soldiers and Lincoln County War Ronald E. McNair Research Program, Howard University October 2002 July 2003 Egyptian and Stoic Cosmology: Cultural Diffusion or Independent Origination? Ronald E. McNair Research Program, Howard University October 2001 July 2002. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Fall 2008 - Spring 2010; Fall 2013 Spring 2014. Theory of Planning, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Adjunct Faculty, Spring 2011 and Fall 2011. World Civilization since 1615, Department of History, Government and Public Policy, St Augustine s College, Raleigh, NC. Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2010. World Civilization to 1615, Department of Social Science, Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C. Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2010.
World Civilization to 1615, Department of History, Government and Public Policy, St Augustine s College, Raleigh, NC. Guest Lecturer: Race, Sex, and Place in America, September 30, 2010. Lecture title: Residential Segregation in the United States. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Guest Lecturer: Theory of Planning, November 30 and December 2, 2009. Lecture title: Race and Multiculturalism: The Making of the Underclass. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Guest Lecturer: Theory of Planning, November 4 and November 9, 2009. Lecture title: American Dream/American Nightmare: The Urbanization of America. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006. African-American Women: Online Course, Department of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C. PROFESSIONAL/WORK EXPERIENCE Research Associate, Fall 2014-Present HUD Multi-Disciplinary Research Team (MDRT), Washington, DC. Research Consultant/Assistant Project Manager, Fall 2011-Present Urban Green Partners: A Real Estate Development and Energy Firm, Washington, DC Research Consultant, Summer 2013 Urban Farming Institute/City Growers (A For-Profit Urban Farming Company), Boston, MA Statistics Lab Consultant, Fall 2010-Summer 2011. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Presidential Intern, August 2008 July 2009. Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C. Served as an assistant for the President of Bennett College. Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience Mentor, May 2008 July 2008. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Served as a mentor for minority college students preparing to pursue advanced graduate degrees. Survey Manager, August 2007 August 2008. Operation Bull s Eye: Community Development in Northeast-Central Durham, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Archivist, 2002-2006. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C. HONORS & AWARDS CES Dissertation Mentorship Program, Fall 2012 Present Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau Washington, D.C. William N. Reynolds Fellowship, Fall 2012 Spring 2014 Graduate School, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 William N. Reynolds Fellowship, Fall 2007-Spring 2009, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Graduate School, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Summer Research Grant, Summer 2010 Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Middlebury Summer Language School Scholarship, Summer 2006 Spanish Language School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT The Ronald E. McNair (Graduate Assistantship), Fall 2004 Spring 2006 Graduate School, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Study Abroad Grant, Winter 2002 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Middlebury Summer Language School Scholarship, Summer 2002 French Language School, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Research Scholarship, Summer 2002 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Deans List, 2001-2004 Howard University, Washington, D.C. College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, 2001-2004 Howard University, Washington, D.C. Howard University Freshman Legacy Scholarship, 2000-2004 Office of Financial Aid, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC SERVICE Co-President, 2010. Black Graduate and Professional Student Association (BGPSA), UNC-Chapel Hill. PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS Anderson, Augustus. Blacks Head South For A New El Dorado: A Study of Micro and Macro Level Factors in Locational Attainment, 1970-2010, Population Association of America, Boston, MA, May 2014. Anderson, Augustus. Black Residential Mobility in the South: Metropolitan Determinants of Migration, Mobility and Residential Stability, 1970-2010, Urban Affairs Association, San Antonio, TX, March 2014. Anderson, Augustus. West Indians and the Residential Landscape in Traditional and Emerging Destinations, 2000-2009, under review. Anderson, Augustus. Black Residential Mobility in the South: Metropolitan Determinants of Migration, Mobility, and Residential Stability, 1970-2010, in preparation. Anderson, Augustus. Black Locational Attainment in the U.S. and the Role of Middle Class Neighborhoods in the Post-Civil Rights Era, 1970-2010, in preparation. Anderson, Augustus. "The New El Dorado: Black Locational Attainment in the South, 1970-2010," in preparation. Anderson, Augustus and Sabrina Pendergrass. Black Reverse Migration: The Role of Family Dynamics, in preparation. Anderson, Augustus. West Indians and the Residential Landscape in Established and Emerging Destinations, 2000-2009, Research and Resistance: Race Across the Disciplines, Triangle Race Conference, Duke University, March 2011. Anderson, Augustus. West Indians and the Residential Landscape in Established and Emerging Destinations, 2000-2009, Ford Foundation Conference, Santa Ana, CA, October 2011. Anderson, Augustus. Segregation in Post-Civil Rights North Carolina, The Southern Research Circle of the Center for the Study of the American South Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2011. Nguyen, Mai Thi and Augustus Anderson. "Do Housing Choice Voucher Recipients Trade Neighborhood Quality for Social Capital and Neighborhood Amenities and Services?", The 51st Annual Meeting of the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Minneapolis Minnesota, October 2010. McDaniel, Mark, Jessica Dorance, and Augustus Anderson. The Reality Education and Assets
Partnership: Assessing the Feasibility of On Campus Money Management Programs at Minority Serving Institutions in North Carolina, Center for Community Capital, UNC-Chapel Hill, December 2009. Augustus Anderson. Uterine Fibroids: the Effect of Medicaid Insurance on Surgical Treatment Choice, Poster presentation at the Minority Health Conference, UNC- Chapel Hill, February 2009. Anderson, Augustus. Booker T. Washington and African Development: Pragmatic Partnership and Influence, 1890-1915, Master s Thesis, Department of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 2006. Augustus Anderson. To Protect and Secure: The Buffalo Soldiers and Lincoln County War, Poster presentation at the Ronald E. McNair Conference, Howard University, June 2003. Augustus Anderson. To Protect and Secure: The Buffalo Soldiers and Lincoln County War, Poster presentation at the Ronald E. McNair Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2003. Anderson, Augustus. To Protect and Secure: The Buffalo Soldiers and Lincoln County War, McNair Journal of Research, Vol. VIII, Howard University, 2002-2003. Augustus Anderson. Egyptian and Stoic Cosmology: Cultural Diffusion or Independent Origination?, Poster presentation at the Ronald E. McNair Conference, Howard University, June 2002. Anderson, Augustus. Egyptian and Stoic Cosmology: Cultural Diffusion or Independent Origination? McNair Journal of Research, Vol. VII, Howard University, 2001-2002. MEMBERSHIPS American Planning Association, American Sociological Association, Association of American Geographers, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Eastern Sociological Society, Population Affairs Association, Urban Affairs Association SKILLS Computer: MS Excel, MS Access, STATA, SPSS, SAS, ArcGIS, Mplus Language: Portuguese