Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University and a leading scholar of racial theory and structural inequality. Trained as a class analyst, political sociologist, and sociologist of development, his work over the past two decades has centered on socio-racial theory and the structural foundations of racial domination.

He has published extensively on racial theory and methodology, color-blind racism, racial grammar, race and human rights, race and citizenship, Historically White Colleges and Universities, and the evolving nature of racial stratification in the United States. His scholarship advances the argument that racism is fundamentally a system of racial domination, a collective and structural phenomenon embedded in social institutions rather than merely individual prejudice. His seminal 1997 American Sociological Review article laid critical groundwork for this line of inquiry.

Dr. Bonilla-Silva is a Founder of the Institute for Public and Social Good (IPSG) and serves as Founding President of the Board. In this capacity, he brings decades of theoretical and methodological expertise to guide IPSG’s research architecture and institutional development.

For a full curriculum vitae or additional materials, please contact Dr. Bonilla-Silva at Institute for the Public and Social Good (IPSG) via hello@theipsg.org.