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Omar Wasow
Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970) is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science. He is co-founder of the social networking website BlackPlanet.
Wasow grew up in a multi-ethnic family. His father, Bernard, is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother, Eileen, is African-American. Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi. Wasow's paternal grandfather was the mathematician Wolfgang R. Wasow. Both Wolfgang Wasow and Omar Wasow's paternal grandmother are of German Jewish heritage.[citation needed]
Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was president of the student union. He then graduated in 1992 from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in race and ethnic relations.
Wasow earned a PhD in African-American studies, an MA in government and an MA in statistics, all from Harvard University in 2012.
In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace."
In 1999 he created BlackPlanet, one of the first major social networking sites. In 2008, the company was sold for $38 million.
Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University in 2013.
Wasow’s work centers on race and ethnic politics and social movements and protests. His paper was published four days before the murder of George Floyd, in American Political Science Review paper on violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s. The paper was widely discussed in international media coverage of the George Floyd protests.
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Omar Wasow
Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970) is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science. He is co-founder of the social networking website BlackPlanet.
Wasow grew up in a multi-ethnic family. His father, Bernard, is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother, Eileen, is African-American. Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi. Wasow's paternal grandfather was the mathematician Wolfgang R. Wasow. Both Wolfgang Wasow and Omar Wasow's paternal grandmother are of German Jewish heritage.[citation needed]
Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was president of the student union. He then graduated in 1992 from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in race and ethnic relations.
Wasow earned a PhD in African-American studies, an MA in government and an MA in statistics, all from Harvard University in 2012.
In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace."
In 1999 he created BlackPlanet, one of the first major social networking sites. In 2008, the company was sold for $38 million.
Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University in 2013.
Wasow’s work centers on race and ethnic politics and social movements and protests. His paper was published four days before the murder of George Floyd, in American Political Science Review paper on violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s. The paper was widely discussed in international media coverage of the George Floyd protests.
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