CURRICULUM VITA

JOHN L. MCKNIGHT

Co-Director, Asset-Based Community Development Institute

Professor of Human Development and Social Policy,
School of Education and Social Policy,
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60208-4100

(847) 491-3214
(847) 467-4140 (fax)
email: j-mcknight@northwestern.edu

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1965-69 Director, Midwest Office,

United States Commission on Civil Rights

1963-65 Chief, Midwest Equal Employment Opportunity Office

Army Materiel Command

1960-63 Executive Director, Illinois Division,

American Civil Liberties Union

1956-60 Human Relations Officer,

Chicago Commission on Human Relations

1953-56 Supply Corps Officer, U.S. Navy

PUBLICATIONS

“Defining Community,” Network, Summer 2001, Canadian Mental

Health Association, Toronto, Canada

“Rationale for a Community Approach to Health Improvement” in

Community-Based Public Health: A Partnership Model, ed. T. Bruce
and S.U. McKane, American Public Health Association, Washington,
DC, 2000

“Professionalized Services: Disabling Help for Communities and

Citizens” in The Essential Civil Society Reader, ed. D. Eberly, Rowan
and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2000
“Saude Comunitaria numa Favela de Chicago” in Saude e Educacao, Ed.
V. Valla, De Paulo Editoria Ltda, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

New Community Tools for Improving Child Health: A Pediatrician’s

Guide to Local Associations (with Pandak, C. A.), American Academy of
Pediatrics, Chicago, IL, 1999

A Guide to Mapping and Mobilizing the Associations In Local

Neighborhoods (with Turner, N. and Kretzmann, J.P.), ACTA
Publications, Chicago, IL, 1999

Newspapers and Neighborhoods: Strategies for Achieving Responsible

Coverage in Local Neighborhoods (with Kretzmann, J. and Puntenney,
D.), ACTA Publications, Chicago, IL, 1999

“Two Tools for Well Being” in Journal of Perinatology, Vol. 19, Number
6, Part 2, September 1999

“Regenerating Community” in Building A Framework for Support, Ed.

J. Trainor, E. Pomeroy, B. Pape, Canadian Mental Health association,
Toronto, Canada, 1999

“Why Adult Educators Should Be Concerned with Civil Society” (with

Hall, B. and Pandak C.) in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Adult
Education Research Conference, LEPS Press, DeKalb, Illinois, 1999.

“Regenerating Community in Social Work Processes,” Compton, B. and

Galaway, B., Brooks Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA, 1999

“La Resilience Des Communautés,” in L’Agora, Vol. 7, Number 1,

October-November, 1999, Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec, Canada

“Philanthropy and The Church In The City,” in The Church In The City,
Ed. Cistone, J.F. and Reichard, E.T., Catholic Archdiocese of Cleveland,
1999 “Regenerating Community” in Social Work Processes, Beulah
Compton and Burt Galaway, Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, 1998

“Turning Communities Around,” CANADIAN HOUSING, Spring 1998,

Vol. 15, No. 1.

"Two Tools for Wellbeing" and "Mapping Community Capacity" (with

John Kretzmann) in Community Organizing and Community Building
for Health, Meredith Minkler (ed.), Rutgers University Press, New
Brunswick, 1997.

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"A Twenty-First Century Map for Healthy Communities and Families,"
Families In Society, The Journal of Contemporary Human Services,
March-April 1997, Vol. 78, Number 2.

"John Deere and the Bereavement Counsellor" in People, Land and

Community, Hildegarde Hannum (ed.), Yale University Press, New
Haven, 1977.

"Redefining Community," Kettering Review, Summer 1996.

"Mapping Community Assets," Community Oriented Primary Care,

University of Texas — Houston Health Service Center, April 1996.

"Do No Harm," The Community Journal, Fall/Winter 1996, Vol. 2, Issue

3.

"Support for Governments for Community Building," (with John

Kretzmann) Minnesota Cities, League of Minnesota Cities, November
1996, Vol. 81, No. 11.

"Counting In Those Who Have Been Counted Out," Eagle News, Logan
Square Neighborhood Association, Fall 1996.

"Artists As Assets for Community Building," (with John Kretzmann)

Stone Soup, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Summer 1996,
Vol. 14, No. 4.

"A Revolution of the Senses," The Other Side, September/October 1996,

Vol. 32, No. 5.

The Careless Society, Basic Books, New York, 1995.

"Regenerating Community," Social Policy, Summer 1995, vol 25,

no. 4.

"Is The Helping Hand Really Helping," Front and Center, Voice of
Canada's Charitable, Voluntary Community, September 1995, vol. 2, no.
4.

"Community: Will We Know It When We See It," Wingspread Journal,

1995.

"Why Servanthood Is Bad," The Other Side, November-December 1995,

vol. 31, no. 6.

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"Building Communities From The Inside Out," Health and Development,
1995, vol. 15, no. 4.

Building Communities From the Inside Out, with John Kretzmann,

Center for Urban Affairs, Evanston, 1994

"Two Tools for Well-Being: Health Systems and Communities," in

MEDICINE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, American Journal of
Preventive Medicine, Supplement to Vol. 10, No. 3, May/June, 1994

"Hospitals and the Health of Their Communities," HOSPITALS AND

HEALTH NETWORKS, American Hospital Association, January 5, 1994,
Vol. 68, No. 1

"Hospitals and Communities Create Wise Environments," TRUSTEE,

American Hospital Association, February, 1994, Vol. 47, No. 2

"Stone Walls, Iron Bars," Op-Ed Page, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, June 21,
1994, Section 1, pg. 17

"Do No Harm," in Social Work Processes, Compton and Galloway,

Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1994

"University and Community" in Health and Community, Mike Money

Ed., Green Books, Divon, England, 1993

"Politicizing Health Care" in The Sociology of Health and Illness (4th

edition), Peter Conrad and Rochelle Kern, Ed., St. Martin's Press, New
York, 1993

"Taking Charge of Health In a Chicago Neighborhood" in A New Dawn

In Guatemala, Richard Luecke, Ed., Waveland Press, Prospect Heights,
Illinois, 1993

"Investing In Democratic Initiatives," STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPIC

INITIATIVES, Winter 1993, Volume 1, No. 3.

"A Sampling of Ideas for Involving Schools In Community

Revitalization," EQUITY AND CHOICE, Winter 1993, Volume 9, No. 2

"Control in the Mask of Care," THE VOICE OF DISABILITY RIGHTS, May-

June 1993, Volume 4, No. 1

"The Good Works Box," THE VOICE OF DISABILITY RIGHTS, September-

October 1993, Volume 4, No. 3

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"Redefining Community," SOCIAL POLICY, Winter 1992, Volume 23, No.
2

"Diagnosis and the Health of Community," Sun Valley Forum, 1992

"Two Tools for Well-Being: Health Systems and Communities,"

Annenberg Health Forum, 1992

"On Good Works and Good Work," THE CITIZEN ADVOCACY FORUM,
October-December, 1992

"The Need for Oldness," Journal of the National Association of Temple

Administrators, Fall/Winter 1992, Volume 31, No. 1

"Mapping Community Capacity," NEW DESIGNS FOR YOUTH

DEVELOPMENT, Winter 1992, Volume 10, No. 1

"Literacy and Inclusion," Inclusion Press, Toronto, Canada

"Professionalized Service and Disabling Help," in Disabling Professions,

Shinhyoron, Tokyo, 1992 (in Japanese)

"Do No Harm" in Paul J. Baker Social Problems: A Critical Thinking

Approach. Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991

"John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor," the whole community

catalog, Communitas, Manchester, Connecticut, 1991

"Services Are Bad for People," ORGANIZING, Spring/Summer 1991,

Volume 3, Number 2

Mapping Community Capacity with John Kretzmann, Center for Urban

Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
1990.

"Politicizing Health Care" in Peter Conrad (ed.) The Sociology of Health and
Illness, St. Martins Press, New York, 1990.

"John Deere and the Bereavement Counsellor" in Gareth Morgan (ed.)

Creative Organization Theory, Sage Publications, New York, 1989.

"Why Servanthood is Bad," THE OTHER SIDE, January/February 1989, Volume

25, Number 1.

"Regenerating Community," in Deborah Gold and Judith McGill (eds.) The

Pursuit of Leisure. G. Allan Roeher Institute, Downsview, Ontario, Canada,
1988.
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"Building Healthy Communities," NATIONAL, Canadian Mental Health
Association, Fall 1988.

"The Elderly Need Servants, Not Services," THE DOCTOR'S PEOPLE, Volume 1,
Number 3.

"Centerpiece," URBAN AFFAIRS NEWS, Winter 1988, Volume 12, Number 2.

The Future of Low-Income Neighborhoods and the People Who Reside

There, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern
University, 1987.

A Story That I Heard, John McKnight, David Schwartz, Michael Kendrick

(eds.), Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, 1987.

"Communities That Help People," PASSAGES 2000, Special Edition, The

Spokesman, April 1987, Alberta, Canada.

"Redrawing the Social Policy Map," JUBILEE, Spring 1987, Volume 4, Number
1.

"Where Can Health Communication Be Found?," PROCEEDINGS OF A SUMMER

CONFERENCE ON HEALTH COMMUNICATION, August 15-17, 1985, Department
of Communication Studies, School of Speech, Northwestern University
(published 1986).

"Demedicalization and Possibilities for Health" in Paul Ekins (ed.) The Living
Economy. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.

"Looking at Capacity, Not Deficiency" in Marc Lipsitz (ed.) Revitalizing Our

Cities. Washington, D.C.: The Fund for an American Renaissance and the
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, 1986.

"Well-being: The New Threshold to the Old Medicine," HEALTH PROMOTION,

1986, Volume1, Number 1; BULLETIN OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
SOCIETY, 1986, Volume 6, Number 1.

"Thinking About Crime, Community and Sacrifice," AUGUSTUS: A JOURNAL

OF PROGRESSIVE HUMAN SERVICES, 1986, Volume 9, Number 8.

"Regenerating Community" in Kathryn Church From Consumer to Citizen.

Toronto, Canada: The Canadian Mental Health Association, 1986.

"The Need for Oldness," CENTER ON AGING, McGaw Medical Center for
Northwestern University, Fall 1986, Volume 2, Number 3.

"A Nation of Clients," THE MINNEAPOLIS CATHOLIC WORKER, September

1986, Volume 10, Number 6.

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"Community Organizing In the Eighties," PARTNER, (with John Kretzmann),
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, summer 1986.

"Things Go Better with Neighbors" (interview by Mary O'Connell), SALT,

June 1986, Volume 6, Number 6.

"Organizers Talk About What They Do," FORUM, The Donors Forum of
Chicago, Spring 1986, Volume 4, Number 3.

"Family Alone Is Like a Sun Without Planets," PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE, March
15, 1986.

"Social Services and the Poor," UTNE READER, February/March 1986, Number
14.

"Telling It to Studs Terkel" (interview by Studs Terkel) HEALTH AND

MEDICINE, Winter 1986, Volume 4, Number 1.

"A Reconsideration of the Crisis of the Welfare State," SOCIAL POLICY,

Summer 1985, Volume 16, Number 1.

"Ideology and Injury Prevention," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH

SERVICES, (with Steven Whitman), Volume 15, Number 1, 1985.

"Health and Empowerment," CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH,

May/June 1985, Volume 76, Supplement 1; RADICAL COMMUNITY MEDICINE,
Quarterly Journal of the Politics of Public Health, Summer 1985, Number 22.

"Self Help vs. Professional Help," EPILEPSY NEWSLETTER, May/June 1985.

"Prevention and Poverty," HEALTH AND MEDICINE, Journal of the Health and
Medicine Policy Research Group, Spring 1985, Volume 3, Number 2 and 3.

"Politizar La Atencion a la Salud," EL GALLO, Seminario de EL DIA, 17 February

1985.

"Service Technology," PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE, 3 January 1985.

"Sweden at the Crossroads: Crisis In the Social Welfare State," HEALTH AND
MEDICINE, Journal of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Winter
1985, Volume 3, No. 1.

"LaReforma Radical de la Concepcion de la Salud," EL GALLO, Seminario de EL

DIA, 3 June 1984.

"Community Organizing in the 80's: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda," SOCIAL

POLICY, (with John Kretzmann), Winter 1984, Volume 14, Number 3.

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"Optimum Tools for Community Health," BULLETIN OF SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, Volume 4, Pergamon Press, 1984.

"John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor," BULLETIN OF SCIENCE,

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, Volume 4, Pergamon Press 1984; INSTITUTIONS,
ETC., Journal of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives,
February 1985, Volume 8, Number 2; RAIN, Journal of the Center for Urban
Education, September/October 1985, Volume 11, Number 6; COPING, Maine
Association of Handicapped Persons, June 1985, Volume 6, Number 7.

"The Other America," RESURGENCE, January/February 1983, Volume 13,

Number 6.

"On Being a Citizen" in Richard Poethig (ed.) Community Organization.

Chicago: Institute on the Church in Urban-Industrial Society, 1982.

"University and Community," RESURGENCE, November/December 1982,

Volume 13, Number 5

"Impoverishment," HEALTH AND MEDICINE, Journal of the Health and

Medicine Policy Research Group, Summer/Fall 1982, Volume 1, Number 3.

"The Two Views," RESURGENCE, May/June 1982, Volume 13, Number 2.

"Survival of the Family," INSTITUTIONS, Journal of the National Center on

Institutions and Alternatives, April 1982, Volume 5, Number 4.

"Health In The Post Medical Era," HEALTH AND MEDICINE, Journal of the
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Winter 1982, Volume 1, Number
1.

"Prologue" to Partners, Ranae Hanson and John McNamara. Minneapolis,

MN: Dayton Hudson Foundation, 1981.

"The University Consortium for Neighborhood Research and Development:

A Prospectus," Neighborhood Research Issues in the 1980's, Evanston, Illinois:
Northwestern University Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, 1981.

"Structural Disinvestment: A Problem in Search of a Policy," John McKnight

et.al., in Robert E. Friedman (ed.) Expanding the Opportunity to Produce.
Washington, D.C.: The Corporation for Enterprise Development, 1981.

"Politicizing Health Care," in Peter Conrad and Rochelle Kern (eds.) The
Sociology of Health and Illness. New York: St. Martins Press, 1981.

"Service Growth Changing Society," CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Perspective Section,

January 2, 1981.

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"Neighborhood Organization, Community Development and the
Assumption of Scarcity," in Paula Dubeck and Zane L. Miller (eds.) Urban
Professionals and the Future of the Metropolis. Port Washington, NY:
Kennicat Press, 1980.

"Institutions for Neighborhood Self Development" (with L. Masotti, S. Hallett

and F. DuBow) in David Morley, Stuart Proudfoot and Robert Burns (eds.)
Making Cities Work. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980.

"A Nation of Clients?" PUBLIC WELFARE, Volume 38, Number 4, Fall 1980.

"Cities' Futures in a Service Economy," THE JOURNAL OF INTERGROUP

RELATIONS, Volume 8, Number 3, Autumn 1980.

"Are We Really Interested in Health, or Is Medical Care More Important?"

Proceedings of the National Conference on Community Health and the
Hospital, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, 1979.

"The Economy of Work: Race, Cities and Services," CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE
RESEARCH NOTES, Volume 1, Number 1.

"The Professional Problem," INSTITUTIONS, Journal of the National Center on

Institutions and Alternatives, September 1979, Volume 2, Number 9;
GRANTSMANSHIP CENTER NEWS, January/February 1981, Volume 9, Number
1; THE LEARNING CONNECTION, Journal of the Free University Network,
Winter 1981, Volume 2, Number 1; RESURGENCE, March/April 1980, Volume
11, Number 1.

"Making Age A Profitable Problem," Perspective page, CHICAGO TRIBUNE,

July 23, 1979.

"Old Isn't a Problem," CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Summer, 1979; WITNESS,

May 1980, Volume 63, Number 5.

"Die Unheimlich Bediente Gescellschaft," DIE ZEIT, February 9, 1979.

"The Need for Oldness," ST. CROIX REVIEW, February 1979, Volume 12,
Number 1; special publication of the National Center for Action on
Institutions and Alternatives, 1979; QUARTERLY, Ontario Association of
Homes for the Aged, August 1979, Volume 15, Number 3; RESURGENCE,
July/August 1979, Volume 10, Number 2; THE FRYING PAN, September 1979;
ISSUES FOR THE DOMESTIC CHURCH, Catholic Charities of Chicago, 1978.

"Politicizing Health Care," SOCIAL POLICY, November/December 1978,

Volume 9, Number 3.

"Big Brother In the Box," NEW ECOLOGIST, (with Andrew Gordon, et.al.),
September/October 1978.

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"Something New: Limited Horizons," CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, March 6, 1978.

"Medical Colonialism," RESURGENCE, November/December 1978, Volume 9,

Number 5.

"Organizing for Community Health," SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE,

November/December 1978, Volume 10, Number 6.

Disabling Professions, John McKnight et.al. London: Marion Boyars Inc.,

1978.
Published in Dutch as De Deskundge: Vriend of Vijand, Het
Wereldvenster Baarn, 1978.
Published in Italian as Le Professioni Mutilanti, Cittadella
Editrice, 1978.

"A Cancerous Health Development: The Case of American Medicine,"

DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE, Journal of the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation,
1978:1.

"Community Health In A Chicago Slum," DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE, Journal

of the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1978:1; HEALTH/PAC BULLETIN,
July/August 1980, Volume 11, Number 6.

"The Politics of Medicine," THE NEW ECOLOGIST, Journal of the Post Industrial
Age, July/August, 1978.

"Good Work and Good Works," Op Ed Page, NEW YORK TIMES, November
16, 1977; JOURNAL OF PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, Spring 1978, Volume 4,
Number 3; CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, October 7, 1977, pp. 13; NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERISITY MEMORANDUM, May/June 1978.

"The Medicalization of Politics," THE NEW PHYSICIAN, Journal of the American

Medical Student Association, January 1978, Volume 27, Number 1.

"Servicios Professionalizados y Ayuda Inhabilitante," translated by Alberto

Matin Baro, TECHNO-POLITICA, CIDOC Dossier, 1978.

"Le Professionalisme Dans Les Services: Un Secours Abrutissant,"

SOCIOLOGIE ET SOCIETIES, April 1977, Volume 9, Number 1.

"The Professional Service Business," SOCIAL POLICY, November/December

1977, Volume 8, Number 3; in Lenore Borzak (ed.) Field Study. Beverly Hills,
CA: Sage Publications, 1981; in Alan Gartner, Colin Greer, Frank Riessman
(ed.) Consumer Education in the Human Services. New York, Pergamon
Press, 1979.

"Valuable Deficiencies," CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Fall 1977, Issues 15;

FUTURES CONDITIONAL, Northwest Regional Foundation, November 1977,

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 Volume 5, Number 3; ALTERNATIVES, Trent University, Spring 1979, Volume
8, Number 2.

"The Medicalization of Politics" in Medizin Statt Gesundheit. Zurich: Gottlieb

Duttweiler Institute, 1975; CHRISTIAN CENTURY, September 17, 1975.

"Hospitals Must Change Their Image," HOSPITALS, Journal of the American

Hospital Association, May 16, 1975, Volume 49, Number 10.

"Beyond Need: Toward a Serviced Society," (with Andrew Gordon, et.al), in

L. Basaglia (ed.) The Crime of Peace. Turin: New Politechnic, 1975.

"National Health Insurance and the People's Health," (with Ivan Illich and
Robert Mendelsohn), JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PEDIATRICS, June 1973, Volume
12, Number 6; VIEWPOINTS, Journal of the Social Concerns Coordinating
Committee, American Lutheran Church, 1978.

"Attitudes of Chicago Suburban Influentials Toward the Prospect of Low and

Moderate Income Housing in Their Communities," (with Charles R. Berger
and Michael H. Cohen), Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research,
Northwestern University, 1973.

"Race and Class Differences in Per Pupil Staffing Expenditures in Chicago

Elementary Schools," (with Richard Berk and Raymond Mack), Center for
Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1971.

"Government and Educational Equality," TOWARD A MODEL OF RELEVANT

INCLUSION, Center for Inner City Studies, Northeastern Illinois State College,
1969.

"Community Action," in Eli Ginzberg (ed.) Business Leadership and the

Negro Crisis. New York: McGraw Hill, 1968.

"Housing Programs and Discrimination," in Sol Tax (ed.) The People vs. the
System. Chicago: Acme Press, 1968.

"Destiny Control and Ghetto Progress," THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIGEST, U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, September 1967.

Research Project Director for the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group directing the
following studies published by the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research,
Northwestern University:

"Discretion and Juvenile Justice," Ralph Knoohuizen and Sheldon Zenner,

1975.

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"Women in Police Work in Chicago," Ralph Knoohuizen, 1974.

"The Question of Police Discipline in Chicago: An Analysis of the Proposed

Office of Professional Standards," Ralph Knoohuizen, 1974.

"Public Access to Police Information in Chicago," Ralph Knoohuizen, 1974.

"The Chicago Police Board," Ralph Knoohuizen, 1973.

"The Selection and Hiring of Chicago Policemen," Ralph Knoohuizen and

William Bailey, 1973.

"The Police and Their Use of Fatal Force in Chicago," Deborah J. Palmer,
Ralph Knoohuizen and Andrew C. Gordon, 1972.

"An Inquest on the Cook County Coroner," Richard P. Fahey and Deborah J.
Palmer, 1971.

"Legal Materials on Police Misconduct and Civil Damage Actions in the

Federal Courts," Ralph Knoohuizen, Thomas R. Meites and Deborah J.
Palmer, 1972.

"The Chicago Police Department: Access to Information, Personnel Practices

and Internal Control -- A Review of Major Reports," Barbara Caulfield, 1972.

"Trial of Juveniles as Adults Under the Illinois Criminal Code," Shelley Mercer
and Richard P. Fahey, 1971.

"Release on Bond and Legal Representatives of Criminal Defendants Arrested

in Evanston, Illinois During 1970," Shelley Mercer, Andrew Gordon and
Richard Fahey, 1971.

"The Administration of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Grants in

Illinois, 1960-70," Scott Lassar, 1971.

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Project Director, Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group, Center for Urban
Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1970-1975.

Co-director (with Louis Masotti) of the Evanston Project, a study of social and
public service systems in Evanston, Illinois, 1972.

Research Associate, study of publicly sponsored racially and economically

integrated housing, Illinois Housing Development Authority, (with Andrew
Gordon), 1972.

Co-Director, study of determinants of community health, 1973-present.

Research Associate, study of urban disinvestment and metropolitan

development (with Leonard Rubinowitz), 1973-1975.

Research Associate, evaluation of deinstitutionalized child welfare services

(with Andrew Gordon), 1973-1976.

Research Associate, study of doctor-patient interactions, Evanston Hospital

Ambulatory Pediatrics Clinic (with Paul Arntson), 1975.

Research Associate, study of efficacy of police anti-crime programs (with

Fredric DuBow), 1974-1975.

Research Associate, study of the effects of the perception of crime upon

community responses (with Fredric DuBow), 1975.

Research Associate, study of tools and society (with Stanley Hallett),

1974-78.

Principal Investigator, study of the causes and prevention of epilepsy among

urban populations, 1977-85.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Gordon), Computers for People

Project, 1981-83.

Principal Investigator, study of environmental determinants of neighborhood

health status, 1981-1989.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Gordon), Affirmative Neighborhood

Information Project, 1983-present.

Principal Investigator, design of systems to identify capacities of residents of

low income neighborhoods, 1985-1989.
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 Principal Investigator, Community Building Project, 1988-1991.

Co-Director, Chicago Innovations Forum, 1987-1994.

Principal Investigator, Neighborhood Innovations Network, 1989-1994.

Principal Investigator, Asset-Based Community Development Institute,

1994-present.

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

Member, Board of Directors:

Better Government Association

Gamaliel Foundation
National Peoples Action

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