Judith R. Blau was born Judith Rae Fritz on April 27, 1942 in Lansing, Michigan to Harold W. Fritz and Theda Fritz. On July 31, 1968 she became Judith R. Blau when she married the late sociologist Peter M. Blau. Together they have one child, Reve T. Blau. Judith Blau went to the University of Chicago for her undergraduate studies. She went on to earn her BA in 1964 and earned her MA in 1967. After this, Judith Blau earned the title of Dr. Judith R. Blau by completing doctoral studies from Northwestern University in 1972.
Dr. Blau currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Blau is also the current President of Sociologists Without Borders- US Chapter and is a member of several sociological organizations. She has also held position of editor and has been on many editorial and advisory boards for various publications put out by these organizations she is a member of and has been on the receiving end of several awards, honors and nominations.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
21 April, 2007
The Road to Academia for Judith Blau
As a junior in college Judith Blau decided to focus her studies on sociology when she realized that “sociologists did everything, from environmental studies to sociology of science.” Judith Blau earned her Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1964 and earned her Master's Degree in Sociology in 1967 from the same university. In 1972 Judith Blau earned her doctorate from Northwestern University and wrote “The structure of science” for her dissertation. Since then Dr. Blau has had many teaching and fellowship opportunities, but currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recently Dr. Blau has been working with Alberto Moncada, who is from Spain, publishing a series of books on human rights and co-editing the journal, Societies Without Borders, for INGO Sociologist without Borders, of which they are Presidents for in their respective counties. In working along side Moncada she says that “it is helpful having a European collaborator.”
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Recently Dr. Blau has been working with Alberto Moncada, who is from Spain, publishing a series of books on human rights and co-editing the journal, Societies Without Borders, for INGO Sociologist without Borders, of which they are Presidents for in their respective counties. In working along side Moncada she says that “it is helpful having a European collaborator.”
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Teaching
Judith Blau currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is a Professor of Sociology and serves as the Chair of the Undergraduate Minor in Social and Economic Justice (SEJ), which she organized. She created the SEJ minor in 2003 to take a closer look at human rights, racial, ethnic, and fender equality, economic justice, democratic participation, sustainable development, diversity and peace. Another reason was so students who wanted to work in advocacy roles in nonprofit organizations, local communities or governmental organizations would have the opportunity to focus on topics that would later help them.
Dr. Blau’s favorite class to teach is Social and Economic Justice, which is the fundamental class for the SEJ minor. The texts she uses for this class include Human Rights: Concept and Context (Broadview Press, 2002) by Brian Orend and The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 1968) by Franz Fanon. She has also written the book Social Contracts and Economic Markets (New York: Plenum, 1993) and many other books about human rights, also one of her research interests is human rights. In this course Dr. Blau requires her students to participate in an APPLES (Assissting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service) Service-learning Project. Her Philosophy behind service-learning is her belief that "learning and practice go hand in hand." APPLES is designed for students to actively attend to the needs of North Carolina Communities. Service-learning is used in calssrooms to enhance what is learned over the course of the semester through reflection in order to connect the service project to the course objectives. Along with APPLES, Dr. Blau assigns an art/poetry project in an effort to "promtoe utopian thinking in the class." Though hands on learning is an important aspect of her SEJ course, Dr. Blau strongly encourages discussion on the "universal needs, capabilities and rights" of humans to motivate critical thinking on "practices that maintain the status quo, inequality and oppression." Dr. Blau also giver her students a list of websites to help with the course work. The website topics include: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Uganda; The Freedom of Expression Institute, South Africa; Third World Networl, Africa (free trade); The Ethiopian Constitution; Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties; Musicians for Peace and Derechos Human Rights.
Other courses she teaches at UNC includes: Human Societies, Sociology of Politics, Citizenship, Sociological Theory, Human Ecology, Sociology of Culture, Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy, The City and Urbanization and The Labor Force. These courses are offered either at the undergraduate level or at the graduate level.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007
http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Course Descriptions for Undergraduates.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/courses/programs/undergrad/coursedescriptions
“Graduate Courses.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/programs/grad/courses
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
Dr. Blau’s favorite class to teach is Social and Economic Justice, which is the fundamental class for the SEJ minor. The texts she uses for this class include Human Rights: Concept and Context (Broadview Press, 2002) by Brian Orend and The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 1968) by Franz Fanon. She has also written the book Social Contracts and Economic Markets (New York: Plenum, 1993) and many other books about human rights, also one of her research interests is human rights. In this course Dr. Blau requires her students to participate in an APPLES (Assissting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service) Service-learning Project. Her Philosophy behind service-learning is her belief that "learning and practice go hand in hand." APPLES is designed for students to actively attend to the needs of North Carolina Communities. Service-learning is used in calssrooms to enhance what is learned over the course of the semester through reflection in order to connect the service project to the course objectives. Along with APPLES, Dr. Blau assigns an art/poetry project in an effort to "promtoe utopian thinking in the class." Though hands on learning is an important aspect of her SEJ course, Dr. Blau strongly encourages discussion on the "universal needs, capabilities and rights" of humans to motivate critical thinking on "practices that maintain the status quo, inequality and oppression." Dr. Blau also giver her students a list of websites to help with the course work. The website topics include: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Uganda; The Freedom of Expression Institute, South Africa; Third World Networl, Africa (free trade); The Ethiopian Constitution; Artists for Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties; Musicians for Peace and Derechos Human Rights.
Other courses she teaches at UNC includes: Human Societies, Sociology of Politics, Citizenship, Sociological Theory, Human Ecology, Sociology of Culture, Formal Organizations and Bureaucracy, The City and Urbanization and The Labor Force. These courses are offered either at the undergraduate level or at the graduate level.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007
http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Course Descriptions for Undergraduates.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/courses/programs/undergrad/coursedescriptions
“Graduate Courses.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/programs/grad/courses
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
Community Involement and Activism
Not soon after Judith Blau accepted the Southern Sociological Society gravel or more formally after she took over as President of the SSS Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Region of the United States. New Orleans was scheduled to play host to the annual meetings of the SSS, but with much concern for hosting the meetings in such a devastated area Judith along with fellow program chair, David Brunsma traveled to New Orleans to see if it would still be a suitable site. What they found was that New Orleans needed their meetings to be there. David Brunsma captures the reaction of New Orleanians in his “Spring 2006 SSS Meetings” article of Winter 2006 issue of The Southern Sociologist, “‘Thank you for being here,’ ‘We really appreciate you coming to support our city,’ ‘Good for you, deciding to come to New Orleans, thanks for the support!,’ ‘We need people!’ These are the words from a French Quarter bartender, a Mid-City store owner, a waitress, and a staff member of the family-owned Hotel Monteleone.” In the next article of the same issue of TSS titled “After Hurricane Katrina- Doing Public Sociology” Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Jennifer Day, who both teach at Tulane University in New Orleans, discuss the effects of the hurricane on New Orleans and Judith’s response to it:
Not only did Judith insist that the SSS hold their meetings at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, but also devoted her President’s Column in TSS to discussing how one could help sociologists and students affected by Hurricane Katrina by donating money to the fund set up by the SSS Executive Committee. By holding their meetings in New Orleans the SSS not only helped the city economically on the road to recovery, but enabled themselves to see first hand the devastation of the greatest natural disasters our country has ever endured.
Manifestos:
Judith Blau has co-written many manifestos examining war and why nonviolence should be preferred over violence. In one such manifesto: "We Condemn Militant Threats Against Iran," Blau affirms that "war is not compatible with democracy" and that the US military should not be present in the Persian Gulf especially because Iranians do not want the US military present in their country. Another manifesto ("A Sociological Manifesto for a Nonviolent International Order") Blau worte with Alberto Moncada calls for nonviolent means to acheive global order. It encourages "nonviolent international order [to be] maintained through democratic authorities...that the United States is hindering" efforts toward. In another manifesto Blau and others prepare a statement against the war on Iraq, in which they summarize thoughts on why the war on Iraq should be ended. They do not support Saddam Hussein's regime, but believe that invading Iraq without the support of most of the countries "will bring more harm than good to the Iraqi People."
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Executive Committee Announces SSS Assistance Fund.” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 2. Fall 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/fall2005.pdf
Brunsma, David. “Spring 2006 SSS Meetings” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Jennifer Day. “After Hurricane Katrina- Doing Public Sociology” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
“Dr. Judith Blau and I discussed the possibilities of continuing the preparations for the SSS’s annual conference in New Orleans…New Orleans no longer remained. Dr. Blau, however, insisted that we could make the conference happen. While New Orleans was in a state of emergency, she believed we could the
necessary preparations with a lot of improvisation and commitment to bringing people back together and back to our fine city.”
Not only did Judith insist that the SSS hold their meetings at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, but also devoted her President’s Column in TSS to discussing how one could help sociologists and students affected by Hurricane Katrina by donating money to the fund set up by the SSS Executive Committee. By holding their meetings in New Orleans the SSS not only helped the city economically on the road to recovery, but enabled themselves to see first hand the devastation of the greatest natural disasters our country has ever endured.
Manifestos:
Judith Blau has co-written many manifestos examining war and why nonviolence should be preferred over violence. In one such manifesto: "We Condemn Militant Threats Against Iran," Blau affirms that "war is not compatible with democracy" and that the US military should not be present in the Persian Gulf especially because Iranians do not want the US military present in their country. Another manifesto ("A Sociological Manifesto for a Nonviolent International Order") Blau worte with Alberto Moncada calls for nonviolent means to acheive global order. It encourages "nonviolent international order [to be] maintained through democratic authorities...that the United States is hindering" efforts toward. In another manifesto Blau and others prepare a statement against the war on Iraq, in which they summarize thoughts on why the war on Iraq should be ended. They do not support Saddam Hussein's regime, but believe that invading Iraq without the support of most of the countries "will bring more harm than good to the Iraqi People."
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Executive Committee Announces SSS Assistance Fund.” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 2. Fall 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/fall2005.pdf
Brunsma, David. “Spring 2006 SSS Meetings” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Jennifer Day. “After Hurricane Katrina- Doing Public Sociology” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Dr. Blau's Research
Judith Blau has held many research appointments including: Project Director from 2000-04 for Researching Adolescent Pathways (RAP) (used for her book Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? (Lynne Reinner, 2003)) and her current position as fellow at Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. In 1997 Blau became a Gillian T. Cell Distinguished University Professor which honors professors for their excellence in undergraduate teaching. Blau’s interests include: sociology of art, sociology of education and diasporas, which was the theme for 2006 Southern Sociological Society Meetings. Some of her publications include: Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective (The MIT Press, 1984), Social Contracts and Economic Markets (Plenum Press, 1993), Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? (Lynne Rienner, 2003), “Alley Art: Can We…See…at Last, The End of Ontology?” (Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001), and “Du Bois and Diasporic Identity: The Veil and the Unveiling Project” (with Eric S. Brown). Her more recent research has contributed to the series of books written with Alberto Moncada: Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution (In press with Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming), and Freedoms and Solidarities: We Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, under contract).
Spotlight on Blau’s Work:
Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? (Lynne Reinner, 2003)
In Race in the Schools was a collaborative effort by Judith Blau, Elizabeth Sterns, and other to frame the relationship between white and black students in the United States and conclude that liberalism is one of the problems linked to this relationship. The group of students Blau chose to study came from 30 of the largest metropolitan areas and began high school in the mid-1990s. She followed these students as they went to college (or not) up until they reached their mid-20s. To understand why whites and blacks are seen so differently she underlines the historical context of their relationship and notes that these individuals “were born a decade after Congress affirmed blacks’ legal rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1964” (2). She chose this particular group to highlight segregation in schools that still contributed white dominance. The data she uses in her research was acquired from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) and the High School Effectiveness Study (HSES). She chose the NELS because of its broad scope of information and its quality of relevance. The HSES was chosen because it provides research on students from inner-cities and suburban areas. Blau concludes that “the best single indicator of children’s vulnerability is the color of their skin” (203). Specifically that white children have more advantages than black children and that white Americans are color-blind. She also concludes that white Americans will never be able to understand racism because they have never experienced it and the only way to understand it is to ask black Americans what it is like to live a life that is full of racial hatred toward them.
Though reviews of the book widely accepted what Blau had to say about white and black students, one review “found that the book was frequently in danger of depicting blacks in the United States as one homogeneous, monolithic social group and whites in the United States as another (Plank 338). This same reviewer was not completely convinced of the conclusions Blau drew upon, specifically that “race relations harm white youths just as surely as they hurt young persons of color” (Plank 338). He claimed that he would have accepted the conclusions had the “balance sheet” been more comprehensive.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Alley Art: Can We…See…at Last the End of Ontology?” ed. Jonathan Turner, Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001. (pp. 187-208).
Blau, Judith R. Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
Blau, Judith R. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith R. Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003.
Blau, Judith R. Social Contracts and Economic Markets. New York: Plenum, 1993.
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution (In press with Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Freedoms and Solidarities: We Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, under contract).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
“The Gillian T. Cell Professorship For Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/cell.htm
Plank, Stephen B. “Review: Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?” The American Journal of Sociology. Vol.111, Iss. 1; pg. 337. Chicago: Jul 2005.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Spotlight on Blau’s Work:
Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? (Lynne Reinner, 2003)
In Race in the Schools was a collaborative effort by Judith Blau, Elizabeth Sterns, and other to frame the relationship between white and black students in the United States and conclude that liberalism is one of the problems linked to this relationship. The group of students Blau chose to study came from 30 of the largest metropolitan areas and began high school in the mid-1990s. She followed these students as they went to college (or not) up until they reached their mid-20s. To understand why whites and blacks are seen so differently she underlines the historical context of their relationship and notes that these individuals “were born a decade after Congress affirmed blacks’ legal rights under the Civil Rights Act of 1964” (2). She chose this particular group to highlight segregation in schools that still contributed white dominance. The data she uses in her research was acquired from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) and the High School Effectiveness Study (HSES). She chose the NELS because of its broad scope of information and its quality of relevance. The HSES was chosen because it provides research on students from inner-cities and suburban areas. Blau concludes that “the best single indicator of children’s vulnerability is the color of their skin” (203). Specifically that white children have more advantages than black children and that white Americans are color-blind. She also concludes that white Americans will never be able to understand racism because they have never experienced it and the only way to understand it is to ask black Americans what it is like to live a life that is full of racial hatred toward them.
Though reviews of the book widely accepted what Blau had to say about white and black students, one review “found that the book was frequently in danger of depicting blacks in the United States as one homogeneous, monolithic social group and whites in the United States as another (Plank 338). This same reviewer was not completely convinced of the conclusions Blau drew upon, specifically that “race relations harm white youths just as surely as they hurt young persons of color” (Plank 338). He claimed that he would have accepted the conclusions had the “balance sheet” been more comprehensive.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Alley Art: Can We…See…at Last the End of Ontology?” ed. Jonathan Turner, Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001. (pp. 187-208).
Blau, Judith R. Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
Blau, Judith R. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith R. Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003.
Blau, Judith R. Social Contracts and Economic Markets. New York: Plenum, 1993.
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution (In press with Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Freedoms and Solidarities: We Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, under contract).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
“The Gillian T. Cell Professorship For Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/cell.htm
Plank, Stephen B. “Review: Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?” The American Journal of Sociology. Vol.111, Iss. 1; pg. 337. Chicago: Jul 2005.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Dr. Blau's Accomplishments
Judith Blau has been on the receiving end of many awards, honors and professional Presidential nominations. She was awarded a Teaching Award from the Sociology Graduate Student Association in 1994. In 1995 Blau became a lifetime honorary member of the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame (see the post titled "Interesting Facts" for more information). In 2005 she was recognized with the Rachel Rosenfeld Outstanding Mentor Award, which is given by graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill to a professor who they believe is an outstanding mentor to the discipline of Sociology. When Rachel Rosenfeld, a sociology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, died the award was named in her honor. That same year she was awarded the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Domincance?(Lunne Reinner Publishers, 2003). The Oliver Cromwell Cox Award is awarded every year by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities to the author of a book or article that contributes to the termination of racism. She has also been given many research grants and fellowships, some of the most recent are: from the National Science Foundation (2003-2004), the Spencer Foundation (May 2001-April 2003), the Spencer Foundation (Summer, 2000) and the University of North Carolina (1999). Currently Judith Blau is the President of the US Chapter of Sociologists Without Borders and was the President of the The American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation, as well as many other research groups and foundations.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
Interesting Facts About Judith Blau
While looking through the list of awards and honors Dr. Blau has received, the most unlikely for her field of study is becoming a lifetime honorary member of the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. Without further investigation one might think this honor has no relevancy to sociology; however, while sifting through numerous amounts of articles she has published, I stumbled upon one that was written the year before the honor was given entitled “Organizing the Boys of Summer: The Evolution of U.S. Minor-League Baseball, 1883-1990” and thought there might possibly be a connection between the two. After asking Dr. Blau about this she confirmed my suspicion saying that the honor was given after the article was donated to the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame for archiving data on minor-league baseball. One thing that I find particularly interesting is that Dr. Blau has co-edited a book called Public Sociologies Reader that is the bookstore of Thammasat University in Thailand.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau's Thoughts for the Future of Social and Economic Justice
When asked about the future of Sociology and Social and Economic Justice, Dr. Blau is confident that many students will continue to be interested in these two fields of study because of the current way things are going in Washington DC.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Judith Blau's Goals
Even though she believes writing takes hard work and discipline, Dr. Blau would like to continue writing even after she is done teaching. Considering the amount of work that she already has published, I believe Dr. Blau will continue to be very fruitful and will be able to complete her dream of writing after she retires from teaching.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Resources:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
My Final Thoughts
I have always liked doing research projects for classes; I feel that I learn more when I have the ability to research the information on my own and not just sit in a class taking notes on various topics. However, every person I have ever researched has died and is more widely known to the general public, but researching the life and work of someone who is still living and actively involved in the community has been much more interesting. Even though I have not had a lot of contact with Dr. Blau I feel that I have more connections with her than people I have previously studied because she is living in the same time period that I am and has witnessed some of the changes and events in the world that I have also witnessed. One thing I learned by doing this project is that it is extremely difficult to read through the material that I found because of basic time constraints and because there is so much that could possibly be read that it is hard to decide which will be relevant to a project of this type. For this reason I have gained more respect for sociologists and will always remember the stressful days of trying to figure out where I should start. I also think that the work of Dr. Judith Blau is very relevant because it shows that she genuinely cares about problems we have not only here, but in other countries as well. She has shown this by writing the series of books on human rights, race and education and by combining the works of several academics from different countries into one journal (Societies without Borders). I think that her work is interesting because it is like nothing we have studied before and has little overlap with what we have already read for the class. Although, the overlap is important in order to see how she connects to our class and what we are studying.
Useful Links
Biography:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. Home Page. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
Sociologists without Borders. 2005. 13 March 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/
Way She Became an Academic:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Societies Without Borders. Volume 1 (2006) http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.com/swb/index.htm
“The structure of science.” 2006. Northwestern University Libraries. 6 April 2007 <http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=11&ti=1,11&Search%5FArg=blau%2C%20judith&SL=None&Search%5FCode=NAME&amp;CNT=25&PID=26499&SEQ=20070406235700&SID=1>.
Teaching:
APPLES Service-Learning Program. March 2007. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 7 April 2007 http://www.unc.edu/apples/about/index.html
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007
http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Blau, Judith. “Sociology 68. Social and Economic Justice, Syllabus.” Sociologists without Borders. Spring 2004. 7 April 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/syllabi/Blau_SEJ2004.pdf
“Course Descriptions for Undergraduates.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/courses/programs/undergrad/coursedescriptions
“Curriculum Description.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/programs/undergrad/sej/curriculum
“Graduate Courses.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/programs/grad/courses
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
Community Involvement and Activism:
Blau, Judith. "ASA Statement Against the War on Iraq." Footnotes of the American Sociological Association 30 (Sept/Oct 2003). 14 February 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/Manifestos/antiwarmanifesto.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Executive Committee Announces SSS Assistance Fund.” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 2. Fall 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/fall2005.pdf
Blau, Judith. "We Condemn Militant Threats Against Iran." 14 February 2007 http://www.petitiononline.com/0107ENG/petition.html
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada. "A Sociological Manifesto for a Nonviolent International Order." Footnotes of the American Sociological Association 30 (November 2002):13. 14 February 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/Manifestos/nonviolencemanifesto.pdf
Brunsma, David. “Spring 2006 SSS Meetings” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Jennifer Day. “After Hurricane Katrina- Doing Public Sociology” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Research:
Blau, Judith. “Alley Art: Can We…See…at Last the End of Ontology?” ed. Jonathan Turner, Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001. (pp. 187-208).
Blau, Judith R. Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
Blau, Judith R. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith R. Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003.
Blau, Judith R. Social Contracts and Economic Markets. New York: Plenum, 1993.
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution (In press with Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Freedoms and Solidarities: We Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, under contract).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
“The Gillian T. Cell Professorship For Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/cell.htm
Plank, Stephen B. “Review: Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?” The American Journal of Sociology. Vol.111, Iss. 1; pg. 337. Chicago: Jul 2005.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Accomplishments:
American Sociological Association. April 2007. 7 April 2007 http://www.asanet.org/
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&amp;amp;amp;amp;n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
"Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities." American Sociological Association. 7 April, 2007 http://www2.asanet.org/sectionrem/awards.html.
Sociologists without Borders. 2005. 13 March 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/
The Southern Sociological Society. 13 March 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/
Interesting Facts:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Land, Kenneth C.; Walter R. Davis; Judith R. Blau. “Organizing the Boys of Summer: The Evolution of U.S. Minor-League Baseball, 1883-1990.” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 3. (Nov., 1994), pp. 781-813. 6 April 2007 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199411%29100%3A3%3C781%3AOTBOST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
"Thammasat University Bookstore." Thammasat University. 7 April 2007 http://bookstore.tu.ac.th/detail.php?ISBN=0742545873&PHPSESSID=95f90ffae5d8769a110f2bfc073beaf6
Her Thoughts on the Future of the Disciplines and Feminism:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Goals:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
My Final Thoughts:
Societies without Borders. Vol. 1 (2006). 7 April 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.com/swb/index.htm
Other Links:
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 4. Spring2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2006.pdf
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 38 Number 1. Summer 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2006-2007/summer2006.pdf
Blog Picture:
"Presidents' Page." Sociologists Without Borders. 2005. 7 April, 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/president.html.
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. Home Page. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&amp;amp;amp;ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
Sociologists without Borders. 2005. 13 March 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/
Way She Became an Academic:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Societies Without Borders. Volume 1 (2006) http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.com/swb/index.htm
“The structure of science.” 2006. Northwestern University Libraries. 6 April 2007 <http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=11&ti=1,11&Search%5FArg=blau%2C%20judith&SL=None&Search%5FCode=NAME&amp;CNT=25&PID=26499&SEQ=20070406235700&SID=1>.
Teaching:
APPLES Service-Learning Program. March 2007. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 7 April 2007 http://www.unc.edu/apples/about/index.html
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007
http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Blau, Judith. “Sociology 68. Social and Economic Justice, Syllabus.” Sociologists without Borders. Spring 2004. 7 April 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/syllabi/Blau_SEJ2004.pdf
“Course Descriptions for Undergraduates.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/courses/programs/undergrad/coursedescriptions
“Curriculum Description.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 https://sociology.unc.edu/programs/undergrad/sej/curriculum
“Graduate Courses.” 2005. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Department of Sociology. 22 March, 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/programs/grad/courses
“Judith Blau: Professor, Chair Social and Economic Justice.” 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology (faculty page). 13 March 2007 http://sociology.unc.edu/directory/faculty/jb
Community Involvement and Activism:
Blau, Judith. "ASA Statement Against the War on Iraq." Footnotes of the American Sociological Association 30 (Sept/Oct 2003). 14 February 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/Manifestos/antiwarmanifesto.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Executive Committee Announces SSS Assistance Fund.” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 2. Fall 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/fall2005.pdf
Blau, Judith. "We Condemn Militant Threats Against Iran." 14 February 2007 http://www.petitiononline.com/0107ENG/petition.html
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada. "A Sociological Manifesto for a Nonviolent International Order." Footnotes of the American Sociological Association 30 (November 2002):13. 14 February 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/Manifestos/nonviolencemanifesto.pdf
Brunsma, David. “Spring 2006 SSS Meetings” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Jennifer Day. “After Hurricane Katrina- Doing Public Sociology” Ed. Freymeyer, Bob. The Southern Sociologist. Vol. 37 Number 3. Winter 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/winter2006.pdf
Research:
Blau, Judith. “Alley Art: Can We…See…at Last the End of Ontology?” ed. Jonathan Turner, Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001. (pp. 187-208).
Blau, Judith R. Architects and Firms: A Sociological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984.
Blau, Judith R. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith R. Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance? Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003.
Blau, Judith R. Social Contracts and Economic Markets. New York: Plenum, 1993.
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution (In press with Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Freedoms and Solidarities: We Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, under contract).
Blau, Judith R. and Alberto Moncada, Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
“The Gillian T. Cell Professorship For Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/cell.htm
Plank, Stephen B. “Review: Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?” The American Journal of Sociology. Vol.111, Iss. 1; pg. 337. Chicago: Jul 2005.
“Social Science Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. 14 February 2007 http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=123
Accomplishments:
American Sociological Association. April 2007. 7 April 2007 http://www.asanet.org/
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 Febraury 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
“Judith R. Blau” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. 13 March 2007 http://0-www.galenet.com.library.uor.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=redl79824&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U14386187&amp;amp;amp;amp;n=10&docNum=H1000009400&ST=blau%2C+judith&bConts=141
"Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities." American Sociological Association. 7 April, 2007 http://www2.asanet.org/sectionrem/awards.html.
Sociologists without Borders. 2005. 13 March 2007 http://sociologistswithoutborders.com/
The Southern Sociological Society. 13 March 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/
Interesting Facts:
Blau, Judith. “Curriculum Vitae.” January 2006. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 14 February 2007 http://www.unc.edu/~jrblau/CV-2006vnw.pdf
Land, Kenneth C.; Walter R. Davis; Judith R. Blau. “Organizing the Boys of Summer: The Evolution of U.S. Minor-League Baseball, 1883-1990.” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 3. (Nov., 1994), pp. 781-813. 6 April 2007 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199411%29100%3A3%3C781%3AOTBOST%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
"Thammasat University Bookstore." Thammasat University. 7 April 2007 http://bookstore.tu.ac.th/detail.php?ISBN=0742545873&PHPSESSID=95f90ffae5d8769a110f2bfc073beaf6
Her Thoughts on the Future of the Disciplines and Feminism:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
Goals:
Blau, Judith. “Re: Memoir Project.” E-mail from Judith Blau. 3 April 2007.
My Final Thoughts:
Societies without Borders. Vol. 1 (2006). 7 April 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.com/swb/index.htm
Other Links:
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 1. Spring/Summer 2005. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2005.pdf
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 37 Number 4. Spring2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2005-2006/spring2006.pdf
Freymeyer, Bob ed. “The Southern Sociologist.” Vol. 38 Number 1. Summer 2006. The Southern Sociological Society. 14 February 2007 http://www.msstate.edu/org/sss/tss/2006-2007/summer2006.pdf
Blog Picture:
"Presidents' Page." Sociologists Without Borders. 2005. 7 April, 2007 http://www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/president.html.
20 February, 2007
Why I am Interested in Women's Studies
As a Math and French major at the Univeristy of Redlands I do not spend much time thinking about sociological theory and how it is related to Women's Studies. Although I am interested in studying the views of others who traditionaly do not hold the same values on life that I hold so I can widen my horizons. I feel that studying Women's Studies in a time when oppression towards women is not practiced like it was 70 years ago is important because of how hard it is to identify with what women from that time period went through because America is now so gung-ho about equal opportunities that I have not been expsoed to that type of life. As a female majoring in a typically male dominated field, I do not recieve any reservation from professors or fellow students as to whether I will be able to contribute to the future of mathematics. I like studying the historical side of Women's Studies over the theoretical because I feel that it is important to learn where we came from, where we are now and how we got there so we do not end up where we started.
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