Mark R. Warren
Associate Professor of Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Address:
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Gutman 447
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.5960
Email: mark_warren@gse.harvard.edu
Courses
A-106 Social Capital, Schools, and Democracy
Biography
Mark Warren is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He studies efforts to strengthen institutions that anchor inner-city communities--churches, schools, and other community-based organizations--and to build broad-based alliances among these institutions and across race and social class. Warren is interested in the development of community leaders through involvement in multiracial political action as well as the outcomes of such efforts in fostering community development, social justice, and school transformation; and is committed to using the results of scholarly research to advance democratic practice. He is the author of Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy and is co-author of Faith-Based Community Organizing: The State of the Field. In 1999, he co-organized a national conference on the role of social capital-based strategies in combating poverty sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He is co-editor of the volume published from the conference papers entitled Social Capital and Poor Communities. Additionally, he was a fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard in 2002, where he worked on a project studying white Americans who are active in the struggle for racial justice and equality.