Yale University Professor Donald Green is a leading expert on hate crimes. In 1994, the National Science Foundation granted him a five-year Young Investigator Award to study hate crime in America. In 1995, the Russell Sage Foundation provided funding to organize a policy conference at Yale on hate crime and in 1996, he received an award from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation to examine links between hate crime and white supremacist activity.

Professor Green has studied hate crime patterns in New York City, Germany and the prewar South. His studies debunk the idea that hate crime surges when economic performance is poor, showing instead the importance of intergroup contact and police deterrence. Professor Green's analysis of crossburnings in the South for the first time finds a statistical link between hate crime and white supremacist activities.

Last year, he was named Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, which recently was named co-recipient of a million dollar COPS grant for training in the area of community based policing.

A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA (1983), he went on to ear PhD (1988) in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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