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Uniondale, NY 11553

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Department of American Studies,
State University of New York (SUNY)
College at Old Westbury
Old Westbury, New York 11568-0210
516-876-3402(Voice);516-876-2882 (Fax)

E-MAIL:
awbonn@vzw.blackberry.net
bonnetta@oldwestbury.edu

HIGHER EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School, 1976
M.A., Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada, 1969
B.A., Sociology, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1966
Social Science Research Council, New York, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1977
Certificate, Management Development Program, Harvard University, School of Education, 1988

ACADEMIC FIELDS:
Race and Ethnic Relations, Migration and Development, Post Colonial and Diaspora Studies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

11/99 Ð 01/03
08/94 Ð 06/97

Vice President for Academic Affairs / Dean of Faculty
State University of New York, (SUNY) College at Old Westbury

09/87 Ð 07/94

Dean, College of Social Behavioral Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino, (CSUSB)

09/83 Ð 06/84

CUNY Faculty Fellow in Academic Administration

09/82 Ð 05/83

Presidential Administrative Intern, Hunter College, CUNY

09/80 Ð 07/82

Deputy Executive Officer, Ph.D.* Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY

*Executive offers are analogous to department heads.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor (Tenured), 08/94 to Present
    State University of New York, College at Old Westbury
    Department of American Studies

Professor (Tenured), 07/94 to 09/87
    California State University, San Bernardino
    Department of Sociology

Associate Professor (Tenured), 01/81 to 05/87
    CUNY Graduate School & Hunter College/CUNY
    Department of Sociology

Assistant Professor (Tenured), 01/77 to 12/80
    Hunter College/CUNY
    Department of Sociology

Instructor, 12/76 to 08/72
    Hunter College/CUNY
    Department of Sociology

Medical Sociologist Assistant, 02/79 to 05/83
    Physician Assistant Biomedical Education
    CCNY & Harlem Hospital
    Physician Program

HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (Selected Citations):

Roster of Senior Scholars Fulbright Program

Finalist (one of three) College Presidencies: CUNY, York College (1991); SUNY College at Buffalo, (1996).

Vice Presidential (staff) Member of SUNY TrusteesÕ Overhaul of SUNY- RETHINKING SUNY (1996). See www.suny.edu/SUNYNews/pdf/rethinking_cfm

WhoÕs Who in the West, 1992-93.

Invited to give Keynote address, ÒThe Impact of Migration on Host Societies: Some Theoretical Perspectives,Ó Symposium on the Indo-Asian Diaspora, Sponsored by the University of Warwick, Coventry, England, and July 1990.

Faculty Fellow in Academic Administration, Office of Academic Affairs, Vice Chancellor, City University of New York, 1983-1984.

Associate of the University Seminar on Cultural Pluralism, Columbia University, 1982-1985.

Awarded Shuster Faculty Research Grant, Hunter College, 1981 and 1985.

Awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by Social Science Research Council, New York, to study ÒPsychosocial Adaptation of Black Medical Students,Ó 1977.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora, ed. Aubrey W Bonnett, and Calvin B Holder, University Press of America, Maryland, 2009.

Emerging Perspectives on The Black Diaspora ed. Aubrey W. Bonnett and G. Llewellyn Watson, University Press of America, Maryland, 1990.

Institutional Adaptation of West Indian Immigrants to America: An Analysis of Rotating Credit Associations, Aubrey W. Bonnett, University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 1981.

Group Identification Among Negroes: An Examination of the Soul Concept in the U.S.A., Aubrey W. Bonnett, Century Twenty- One Publisher, California, 1980.

Articles and Opinions (Abridged):

The West Indian Diaspora to the USA: Remittances and Development of the Homeland, in Forum on Public Policy, Summer 2007.

See: http://www.forumonpublicpolicy.com/archivesum07/bonnett.pdf

And reprinted in many academic/professional publications

The West Indian Diaspora to the USA: Remittances and development of The Homeland, Wadabagei: (Vol 12, Number 1, Winter 2009)

West Indian Americans and Black History Month.

See: www.sweetsoca.com/bmp/think/blackhistorymonth.html

Living In America: The Foreign Ð Born Populations and West Indian Americans.

See: www.guyanaca.com/AmericanGuyanese.htm

Culture Rising: Carifesta, Panorama and Identity.

See: www.ecaroh.com/bmp/articles/culture_rising.htm

Nixon Administration, in African - American Encyclopedia, 2nd ed, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Tarrytown, New York, 1999.

Santeria, in Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, edited by Carl L. Bankston 111, Salem Press, Pasadena, California, August, 1999.

Segmented assimilation theory, in Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, edited by Carl L. Bankston 111, Salem Press, Pasadena, California August 1999.

Pan-Africanism, in Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, edited by Carl L. Bankston 111, Salem Press, Pasadena, California, August 1999.

ÒLeading Large Systems: The Delicate BalanceÓ, by Aubrey W. Bonnett and Yolanda T. Moses, in Datatel: leadership Rises to the Challenge, in http://www.internetviz-newsletters.com/datatel/e_article000316563.cfm?x=b11,0

West Indian Americans, Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, edited by Carl L. Bankston 111, Salem Press Inc., Pasadena, California, August 1999, pp. 1037-1039.

The SUSU: A West Indian Financial Tradition, Just for Black Men, No.1, January 1997, pg. 29.

ÒRotating Credit Associations, Caribbean America Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Commercial Banks: An Explanation and AnalysisÓ in The Encyclopedia of African American Business History, Juliet E.K. Walker, ed. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1999,

Post Script for Inward Stretch Outward Reach: A Voice From the Caribbean, Rex Nettleford, Caribbean Diaspora Press Inc., New York, 1995, pp. 197-198.

ÒThe Challenge of Academic Leadership: An Academic Vice PresidentÕs PerspectiveÓ in The Old Westbury Carrel, Vol. IV, No. 1, Fall, 1994, pp. 3-5.

ÒThe New Female West Indian Immigrant: Dilemmas of Coping in the Host Society,Ó In Search of a Better Life: Perspectives on Migration From the Caribbean, ed. Ransford W. Palmer, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1990,138-149. .

ÒWest Indians in the U.S.A.: Some Theoretical and Practical ConsiderationsÓ in Emerging Perspectives on the Black Diaspora, ed. Aubrey W. Bonnett and G.L. Watson, University Press of America, Maryland, 1990, pp. 149-163.

ÒPatterns of Accommodation in the West Indian Community of New York,Ó in Schooling, Job Opportunities and Ethnic Mobility among Caribbean Youth in the United States, ed. A.L. Carrasquillo and E.E. Sandis, Fordham University Press, Spring, 1985, pp. 44-48.

ÒBlack Medical Students in White Medical Schools: An Exploratory Study of Black Medical Students in Predominantly White Medical Schools,Ó Aubrey W. Bonnett and Frank L. Douglas, Social Policy, Summer, 1983, pp. 23-26.

Voluntarism Among West Indian Immigrants in Brooklyn,Ó in The Apple Sliced: Sociological Studies of New York City, ed. Vernon W. Boggs et al, J.F. Bergin and Harvey Publishers Inc., Mass. 1983, pp. 118-130. Re-issued in The Apple Sliced: Sociological Studies of New York City, ed. Boggs et al. by Waveland Press Inc., Illinois, 1988.

ÒStructured Adaptation of Black Migrants from The Caribbean: An Examination of an Indigenous Banking System in Brooklyn,Ó Phylon, Vol. XLII No. 4, 1981, pp. 346-355.

ÒAn Examination of Rotating Credit Association among Black West Indian Immigrants in Brooklyn,Ó in Sourcebook on the New Immigration: Implications for the U.S.A. and the International Community, ed. by R.S. Bryce LaPorte, Transaction Books, New Jersey, 1980, pp. 271-284.

ÒSocial Networks, Retention Costs and The Black Community: A Look at the Black Hypertensive Patient,Ó in Economic Costs of High Blood Pressure in the Black Community: Proceedings of Working Group Session U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institute of Health Publication, 1980, pp. 13-18.

ÒInstrumental and Expressive Voluntary Associations among Black West Indian Immigrants,Ó Journal of Voluntary Action Research, Vol. 6 Nos. 1 & 2, Winter/Spring (January-April 1977), pp. 89-97.

ÒAn Introduction to Educational Institutions,Ó Social Institutions, N. Foote, ed. Kendall-Hunt Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1974, pp. 239-243.

ÒCharisma and Charismatic Leadership,Ó Social Institutions, N. Foote, ed. Kendall-Hunt Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1974, pp. 233-238.

ÒSome Notes on Regional Integration in the West Indies,Ó Carib, Vol. 3, March, 1973, pp. 15-17.

West Indian Americans: Why Do They Hate US, in Caribbean Voice, August 6, 2004.

See http://www.caribvoice.org/Opinions/Aubrey/hate.html

Constructing a cohesive and substantive platform of the Caribbean Diaspora in North America that would contribute to the development of the Caribbean, presented at the Caribbean Development Experts Meeting, December 2, 2005, United Nations Secretariat, New York

Accreditation Service:
Western Association of Schools and Colleges; Middle States Association

Professional Organizations:
Caribbean Studies Association
Association of Black Sociologists
Association forth e Study of African American Life and History

REFERENCES

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The West Indian Diaspora to the USA: Remittances and Development of the Homeland

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Reflections on Decisions 2004: I am in a Gray State of Mind
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