FORUM ON PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
WHAT A LIFE! SOCIOLOGY BEYOND THE ACADEMY
Too often we think that the Berkeley PhD is only good for an academic career. Our three panelists put this myth to bed, telling us how they spiraled outward and with what role for sociology. Judy Auerbach left Berkeley in 1986 to take up a series of high level appointments in federal science programs, including ones in the National Institute of Health, National Academy of Sciences, all the way up to the White House. SheÕs now back in the Bay Area with the San Fracisco AIDS Foundation. Her dissertation examined work family relations long before it became the fashion. She has received awards from and has been President of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). Gary Delgado left Berkeley in 1983 to found and direct first the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) and then the Applied Research Center (ARC). He is a nationally famed researcher, lecturer and activist. His dissertation, published as Organizing the Movement, traces the origins and growth of ACORN, the pioneer of community organizing. Mona Younis left Berkeley in 1996 to become a prominent human rights organizer and funder. Her dissertation, published as Liberation and Democratization, explained why the African National Congress was a more successful nationalist movement than the PLO. SheÕs now heading the human rights program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This forum took place on February 15, 2007.
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What a Life! (60 minutes)
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