{"id":995,"date":"2020-06-23T23:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=995"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:14:45","slug":"edwin-dorn","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/edwin-dorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Dorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edwin Dorn teaches defense policy and courses about the relationship between race and immigration policy. He was dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs from 1997 to 2005. Prior to that, Dr. Dorn spent 20 years in Washington, DC. He worked on civil rights and education policy in the Carter administration and served as undersecretary of defense (Personnel &amp; Readiness) in the Clinton administration. During the 1980s, he was affiliated with two Washington think tanks: the Joint Center for Political Studies and the Brookings Institution. A native Texan, he graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (Phi Beta Kappa). After serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale University.&nbsp;Dr. Dorn\u2019s major publications include \u201cRules and Racial Equality\u201d (Yale University Press) and \u201cWho Defends America?\u201d which he edited (Joint Center for Political Studies Press). He was an adviser to the PBS documentary \u201cEyes on the Prize: America\u2019s Civil Rights Years.\u201d He is chairman of the board of the Kettering Foundation and serves on the boards of the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Seton Family of Hospitals. He also participates in the Dartmouth Conferences, an ongoing series of \u201cback channel\u201d meetings between prominent citizens of the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":997,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-995","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Dorn","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/995\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}