Faculty Bio

Daniel Welliver

Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Daniel Welliver comes to the Juniata faculty in 2006 after a long career in the private sector and state government. He earned bachelor's degree in sociology in 1979 from Juniata College and went on to earn a master's degree in community psychology in 1990 from Penn State University. He is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Welliver's previous job was as director of education and community services and coordinator of the Pennsylvania Inter-agency Task Force on Civil Tension at the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission, a post he held from 1998 to 2006. He was executive director of the Neighborhood Center of the United Methodist Church in Harrisburg, Pa. from 1988 to 1998. He also worked as a researcher and statistician for the Harrisburg Fair Housing Council from 1987 to 1988.

He has mixed a growing educational career with his administrative duties, serving as an adjunct faculty member in sociology at Harrisburg Area Community College from 2005 to 2006. Welliver also continues to serve as a Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellow at the Education Policy Leadership Center in Harrisburg and at the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C., a fellowship he has held since 2003.

Welliver began his professional career in Huntingdon, Pa. as a family day care home coordinator for Huntingdon County Child development, a local social services agency.

He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the academic honor society, and he received the 1995 Hileman Award from the Methodist Federation for Social Action. He also was recognized by Penn State Harrisburg for Distinguished Service in Community Psychology in 1994.

His current research interests focus on white, anti-racist identity formation and maintenance. He also served on a variety of committees, including the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Task Force and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania student advisory council. He has written and edited a wide range of educational publications, including 'Police Response to Hate Crimes in Pennsylvania,' ''A Citizen's Guide to Hate Crime in Pennsylvania' and 'Effective Law Enforcement in Diverse and Changing Communities.'