Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research. He received his PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 1995. Warren is the author of Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy (Princeton University Press), which has been critically received as a foundational contribution to the study of community organizing in its modern form. Warren is coeditor of a book on social capital-based strategies for combating poverty, Social Capital and Poor Communities (Russell Sage Foundation Press) and the author of Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice (Oxford University Press). Warren has also published a lead article in the Harvard Educational Review on the relationship between community development and school improvement, entitled “Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform.”