John M. Wallace Jr.

John Mckee Wallace, Jr. is an American sociologist who is the David E. Epperson Chair and Professor, Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh.

[1] In 1991 Wallace was awarded an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, and remained at the University of Michigan, where he was eventually promoted to associate professor.

[8] Working with James Hugley, Wallace showed that Black students were in Pittsburgh were suspended at twice the rate of their white counterparts.

[9][10] Alongside his work on education, Wallace leads an National Institute on Drug Abuse research programme into substance use by American adolescents.

Here he established the ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, agriculture and math) education programme for low-income African American communities.