EXPERT REPORT OF THOMAS J. SUGRUE
Gratz, et al. v. Bollinger, et al., No. 97-75321 (E.D. Mich.)
Grutter, et al. v. Bollinger, et al., No. 97-75928 (E.D. Mich.)
I. STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS
My name is Thomas J. Sugrue. I am Associate Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where I have been a member of the faculty since 1991. I was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1962 and received my primary and secondary education in schools in Detroit and its suburbs. I graduated with a B.A. in history, Summa Cum Laude, from Columbia University in 1984. I received a second B.A. in 1986 from Cambridge University. I was awarded an M.A. degree from Cambridge University in 1990. I earned an A.M. and a Ph.D. degree in history from Harvard University in 1987 and 1992 respectively.
My first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, was published by Princeton University Press in 1996 and has won four major awards, including the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American History. I have co-edited another book and have published more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters. In addition, I have written dozens of reviews, short essays, and professional papers. My research has concentrated on the status of African Americans and their relationship to the larger society. I have written extensively on the topic of race relations, with special attention to the perception and treatment of minorities over the last half century. I have also written about the economic, political, and social roots of racial inequality and poverty in the twentieth-century United States. I have conducted research in archives around the country. My book and a number of my articles discuss race relations and inequality in Michigan, with close attention to metropolitan Detroit. A detailed record of my professional qualifications, including a list of publications, awards, and professional activities, is set forth in the curriculum vita attached as Appendix A.
At the request of attorneys with Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, I have conducted research on the patterns and costs of racial separation and division, past and present, in the United States, with special attention to Michigan. My report is based on my extensive research in the reports of various local, state, and federal government agencies, census and other statistical reports, and relevant scholarly books and articles by historians, sociologists, political scientists, and economists. I also draw material from my own previously published books and articles.
II. INFORMATION CONSIDERED IN FORMING OPINIONS
A bibliography of sources consulted is attached to this report as Appendix B.
III. OTHER EXPERT TESTIMONY; COMPENSATION
I have not testified as an expert at trial or by deposition within the preceding four years. I am being compensated at a rate of $200/hour for this matter.
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