Juan J. Battle, PhD. is a Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.   He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist with a focus on race, sexuality, and social justice. He is a recent president of the Association of Black Sociologists and a former Senior Research consultant at the Arcus Foundation. He currently serves on the board of his local YMCA and the board of the scholarship fund of Camp Shohola for Boys..

Prof. Battle is currently heading a large Ford Foundation-funded research project examining Black American sexuality. He is also an organizer of Race/Sex/Power: New Movements in Black and Latina/o Sexualities – a national conference recently held in Chicago, IL.  He is the organizer of a group of academics and activists dedicated to building and broadening the field examining the intersections of race and sexuality. That project is being sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.

On a national level, he is a co-investigator on a project entitled “Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Urban Health Research.” This NIH-funded project is developing an interdisciplinary curriculum to educate researchers to deal more effectively with health issues specific to individuals living in urban areas.   And, on a more local level, he is a researcher with R.E.A.L. M.E.N. (Returning Educated African American and Latino Men to Empowered Neighborhoods) – a project targeting over 500 16- to 19-year old men who are leaving Riker's Island (the local jail in New York City) and returning to communities in New York City. Further, Prof. Battle recently completed a study – funded by four Ford Foundation offices around the world – researching social justice philanthropy in Kenya, India, Indonesia, Peru, and the United States.
  
Professor Battle's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ford Foundation, the Arcus Foundation, as well as a number of state and local government agencies and foundations.   He is on the editorial boards of and serves as a reviewer for several academic journals, including Contemporary Sociology, Journal of African American Studies, Sociological Quarterly, Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Negro Education, and the Journal of Poverty.  He also the lead co-editor of Free At Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century (2006).

In addition to publishing in many academic journals, his work has been highlighted in popular national magazines, radio shows, and newspapers; among these have been Black Entertainment Television (BET), Essence magazine, and The Advocate magazine.  He was also selected as one of the top "Ten Black Men Transforming the World."

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