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Roland Fryer
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. (born June 4, 1977) is an American economist and professor at Harvard University.
Fryer joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became one of the youngest professors (economists Jeffrey Sachs and Lawrence H. Summers both received tenure at 28), and the youngest African American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard. He has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2011 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015 -- the field of economics' highest award second only to the Nobel Prize.
Fryer has led research on social issues including social image and segregation, race and ethnicity, and the U.S. racial achievement gap. In 2019, he published an analysis arguing that Black and Hispanic Americans were no more likely than white Americans to be shot by police in a given interaction with police.
Fryer grew up in Lewisville, Texas, where he had moved with his abusive alcoholic father at the age of 4. Fryer's mother left when he was very young, and his father, who beat his son, was convicted of rape, leaving Fryer on his own. He became a "full fledged gangster by his teens."
Fryer attended Lewisville High School, where he started in football and basketball. He earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington for basketball. However, he never actually played for the Texas–Arlington Mavericks; instead he decided to embrace academics, joining the Honors College, whose dean helped find him an academic scholarship. He graduated in 1998 with a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in economics after two-and-a-half years of study while working full time at a McDonald's drive-thru.
Fryer then did doctoral study in economics at Pennsylvania State University, receiving a Ph.D. in 2002.
He then did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago with Nobel laureate economist Gary Becker.
Fryer has collaborated with several other academics, including Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist and author of Freakonomics, Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, and Edward Glaeser, an urban economist at Harvard.
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Roland Fryer
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. (born June 4, 1977) is an American economist and professor at Harvard University.
Fryer joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became one of the youngest professors (economists Jeffrey Sachs and Lawrence H. Summers both received tenure at 28), and the youngest African American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard. He has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2011 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015 -- the field of economics' highest award second only to the Nobel Prize.
Fryer has led research on social issues including social image and segregation, race and ethnicity, and the U.S. racial achievement gap. In 2019, he published an analysis arguing that Black and Hispanic Americans were no more likely than white Americans to be shot by police in a given interaction with police.
Fryer grew up in Lewisville, Texas, where he had moved with his abusive alcoholic father at the age of 4. Fryer's mother left when he was very young, and his father, who beat his son, was convicted of rape, leaving Fryer on his own. He became a "full fledged gangster by his teens."
Fryer attended Lewisville High School, where he started in football and basketball. He earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington for basketball. However, he never actually played for the Texas–Arlington Mavericks; instead he decided to embrace academics, joining the Honors College, whose dean helped find him an academic scholarship. He graduated in 1998 with a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in economics after two-and-a-half years of study while working full time at a McDonald's drive-thru.
Fryer then did doctoral study in economics at Pennsylvania State University, receiving a Ph.D. in 2002.
He then did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago with Nobel laureate economist Gary Becker.
Fryer has collaborated with several other academics, including Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist and author of Freakonomics, Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, and Edward Glaeser, an urban economist at Harvard.
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