Vincent N. Parrillo  Vincent N. Parrillo is a professor of sociology at William Paterson University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Liège, Belgium (2010), the University of Pisa, Italy (2006 and 1998), and Roehampton University, London (2005). As a Fulbright scholar in the Czech Republic in 2000, he lectured at Charles University (Prague) and Palacký University (Olomouc). Raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Parrillo attended a richly diverse Paterson Central High School. He is the executive producer and writer of five award- winning PBS television documentaries: "Silk City Artists and Musicians" (2017), "Paterson and Its People" (2015),"Gaetano Federici: The Sculptor Laureate of Paterson "(2013), "Smokestacks and Steeples: A Portrait of Paterson" (1992), and "Ellis Island: Gateway to America" (1991). He is the author of eight books, editor of three others, and General Editor of the two-volume, multidisciplinary "Encyclopedia of Social Problems" (Sage, 2008). His scholarly articles and essays have appeared in such journals as "Sociological Forum, Social Science Journal, Journal of Comparative Family Studies", and "Small Group Behavior", and his various writings have been published in one of eight languages (Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Romanian). He served as Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society in 2008-2009, and was honored as its Robin M. Williams, Jr. Distinguished Lecturer for 2005-2006. Parrillo coined the term Dillingham Flaw, which refers to inaccurate comparisons of immigrants—whether in the past, present, or future—that are based on simplistic categorizations and anachronistic observations. He is also the principal investigator and senior author of two of the largest national studies ever conducted on social distance. Parrillo has gone on numerous assignments for the State Department's former U.S. Information Agency (USIA) and current Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) to give public lectures and to confer with national leaders in Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Sweden on issues relating to immigration and intergroup tensions. He has conducted numerous diversity training sessions for various corporations and for NCOs and senior army officers at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) at Patrick Air Force Base (Florida) and at various military bases.