Dalton Conley

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Dalton Clark Conley (b. 1969) is an American sociologist. He is professor of sociology and public policy at the New York University and adjunct professor of community medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He is the author of several books including Being Black, Living in the Red (1999), Honky (a sociological memoir; 2001). His latest book is The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (2004). His work has also appeared in Salon.com, Feed Magazine and other outlets.

His op-ed calling for "a man's right to choose" ("If a father is willing to legally commit to raising a child with no help from the mother he should be able to obtain an injunction against the abortion of the fetus he helped create.") appeared in the New York Times. [1][2]

Conley earned a B.A. degree in "General Curriculum-Humanities" from UC Berkeley in 1990. [3] He is married to Natalie Jeremijenko.[4]

Conley has also done a seminar for a high school talking about his early life growing up in an African American Neighborhood in Manhattan and how that history affected the writing of his books, such as Being Black.