Major Colman is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, Labor Studies and Industrial Relations and Political Science, received his J.D. from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1993. He comes to us from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Economics, where he was a postdoctoral scholar. He was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in politics, race and law at Stanford University. His research interests include minority employment and firm performance, the impact of competitive processes on racial equality, law and economics, and affirmative action policy. His is currently completing a manuscript with the University Press of Virginia titled "The Cost of Racial Equality," and conducting analyses of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data.

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