Previously, he served as Chief of Racial Statistics at the U.S. Census Bureau, where he greatly increased the number and depth of the Bureau’s publications on minority populations, and as Director of DataBank at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He received the American Statistical Society‘s 1998 Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for co-chairing the Research Subcommittee that helped revise the federal classification system for race and ethnicity. A Harvard graduate, Dr. Harrison earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton, and has served on the faculties of Harvard University and UCLA. He has been a DC resident since 1990.