Vitae

JOHN SIBLEY BUTLER

Professor of Management and Sociology

Director, The IC² Institute and the Herb Kelleher

Center for Entrepreneurship Growth and Renewal

The Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship

(Graduate School of Business, Management)

The Sam Barshop Centennial Fellow (The IC² Institute)

The University of Texas, Austin

ADDRESS:

Department of Management

Graduate School of Business 4.202

Austin, Texas 78712

(512) 471-4788

john.butler@mccombs.utexas.edu

Department of Sociology

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas 78712

(512) 471-1122

EDUCATION:

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)

Bachelor of Liberal Arts (1969)

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Ph.D. in Sociology, 1974 (Organizational Behavior/Methods and Statistics)

VETERAN STATUS:

Vietnam Veteran (Bronze Star for Valor in Combat)

PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT:

Appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Bush on September 23, 2003 for a term ending on September 22, 2006.

Reappointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Bush, January 8, 2007

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS: 

• Kappa Kappa Psi, Sigma Pi Phi, Omigron Nu, Phi Delta Kappa

• Fellow for Social Change, Northwestern University, 1971-1974

• Summer Fellow, Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University, 1972

• Visiting Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research, McClean, Virginia, 1974

• Presidential “Think Tank” on The All-Volunteer Military, Washington, D.C., 1975

• Alpha Kappa Delta Teaching Excellence Award, 1978

• International “Think Tank” on Military Institutions around the World, Colorado

• Springs, Colorado, 1986

• Visiting Lecture Quantitative Research Skills Institute, the American Sociological Association’s UCLA, 1980

• “Think Tank” on Testing and American Organizations, The University of California at Berkeley, 1988

• Selected as chief scientist by DoD study of Leadership, Cohesion and Values in the Military

• The Eyes of Texas Award, 1985 (For Service to Students and the Community)

• President, American Association of Black Sociologists, 1980-1981 (Elected)

• Executive Board, The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, 1989-present (Elected)

• Selected to Lecture in the Ph.D. Program in Entrepreneurship, Mexico, City, Mexico, 1992-1993 (Cooperative Program, Graduate School of Business and ITESM-CCM)

• Selected to appear before the President’s Commission on The Assignment of Women in The Armed Forces Dallas, Texas, 1992

• Awarded the “Distinguished Scholar Award” by The American Association of Black Sociologists, 1992

• W.E.B. Dubois Excellence in Research Award: Austin Independent School District. 1995.

• The Booker T. Washington Legacy Award, 2006

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