Everyday Life. In addition, Anderson has won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was named the Robin M. Williams, Jr., Distinguished Lecturer for 1999-2000 by the Eastern Sociological Society. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Northwestern University. Anderson has served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and as vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications in his field, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the Society of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior. Confederate statues In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anderson argued that Confederate monuments "really impact the psyche of black people." Selected publications The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life" (2011, W.W. Norton)Against the Wall: Poor, Black, and Male (editor, 2008) A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men (2nd ed., 2003)Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States (co-editor with D. Massey, 2001)Code of the street: Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 150-154, .Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community (1990) Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. From series The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595 (September) (co-editor with Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones, 2004) The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Du Bois's Agenda, Then and Now. From series The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', 568 (March) (co-editor with Tukufu Zuberi, 2000). References External links Yale University, Department of Sociology Faculty Page Yale University, Office of Public Affairs and Communication https://web.archive.org/web/20160211133445/http://elijahanderson.com/Home.html Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale Faculty Sociology Faculty: Elijah Anderson A review of Elijah Anderson, "The Code of the Street," The Wagner Review, Spring