Bruce Daniel Haynes

Bruce Daniel Haynes, Ph.D. Sociologist Dr. Bruce D. Haynes is professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis where he held affiliations in Geography, Jewish Studies, African American Studies, Community Development, and Religious Studies. 

A native Harlemite, Haynes earned his B.A. in Sociology from Manhattanville College and went on to conduct applied research under the tutelage of sociologist Jay Schulman, selecting juries for high publicity civil rights cases like the Howard Beach and Bensonhurst trials in New York.  

After earning his doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York (1995), Haynes was appointed assistant professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University. He joined the UC Davis sociology faculty in 2001. 

Haynes has appeared on Capital Public Radio and NPR's  KQED. He has also appeared on PBS numerous times, and written for both ESPN and The Forward. His most recent book, The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America, won the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions. 

An expert on race and urban communities, Haynes's publications also include Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (co-author Syma Solovitch), and Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb, and The Ghetto: Contemporary Issues and Controversies.