Orlando Patterson

The Honourable Orlando Patterson OM
Patterson at the University of California, Berkeley
Born	Horace Orlando Patterson (1940-06-05) 5 June 1940 (age 84) Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica
Title	John Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard University
Awards	National Book Award Musgrave Medal Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Academic background
Education	University of the West Indies London School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	David Glass
Academic work
Discipline	Sociologist
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral students	Mabel Berezin, Marion Fourcade
Main interests	Race in the US Economic development Slavery Social death
Notable works	"The Sociology of Slavery" (1967); "Slavery and Social Death" (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991)

Horace Orlando Patterson OM (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.^[1] Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.^[2]