Robert D. Bullard

Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and is currently a Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University.Upon graduating from college, he served two years in the United States Marine Corps, at an "air control station in North Carolina".Bullard obtained his Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University in 1976, under the supervision of urban sociologist Robert ("Bob") O.Entitled 'Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community', the study was the first comprehensive account of ecoracism in the United States."[2] Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.It was his expert testimony that won the case of Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT) v. Louisiana Energy Services (LES) for the environmental justice group, directly causing the federal government's decision to deny the LES's permit for a uranium enrichment plant in Forest Grove and Center Springs, Louisiana.
Robert Lee BullardElba, AlabamaAlabama A&M UniversityClark Atlanta UniversityIowa State UniversitySociologyTexas Southern UniversityUniversity of California, RiversideThesisDoctoral advisorBarbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairsenvironmental justiceenvironmental racismHuntsvillecivil rightsmiddle-classgarbage dumpexpert witnesstoxic wasteblack peoplepeople of colorAmerican SouthDallas, TexasInstitute, West VirginiaEmelle, Alabamagrassroots movementcivil rights movementenvironmental movementBunyan Bryantthe University of MichiganUnited Church of ChristLouis SullivanU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesWilliam ReillyEnvironmental Protection Agencyadvocacy groupCarol BrownerPuerto RicoCharles Stewart Mott FoundationPresident Bill ClintonExecutive OrderNational Environmental Justice Advisory Counciluranium enrichmentHoustonUniversity of TennesseeUniversity of California at BerkeleyUniversity of California-RiversideClark-Atlanta UniversityAtlanta, GeorgiaNational Wildlife FederationNewsweekCo-op AmericaJohn Muir AwardSierra ClubChampions of the EarthSociological InquirySouth End PressBoom and BustTexas A&M University PressUniversity of AlabamaDumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental QualitySierra Club BooksGabriola Islandpublic policyMIT PressHuman RightsGulf CoastHistory of African-Americans in HoustonNuclear Regulatory Commission