Orlando Patterson Receives MLK Jr. Social Justice Award

Faculty Associate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, is the recipient of the twenty-fourth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award for his extensive research into Jamaican slavery. The award is given by the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania to highlight an individual with “influential scholarship and commitment to social justice.” Patterson gave a lecture prior to receiving the award the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.