Object Title
Audio interview with Vera L. Zolberg
Part of
New School Oral History Program
Material Category
Digital Audio
Type of Work
mp3
Description
In this audio interview with librarian Carmen Hendershott, sociology professor emerita Vera Zolberg discusses how she and her husband, Aristide, were invited to join the Graduate Faculty (now, the New School for Social Research) in 1983. She observes the changes the division was experiencing when they arrived, and discusses colleagues including Eric Hobsbawm, Elzbieta Matynia, George Yudice, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Arthur Vidich, Stanley Diamond, Rayna Rapp, and Bill Roseberry. She briefly mentions her husband’s involvement with the Migration Center. Zolberg discusses the need for a physical space where students and faculty from different social science disciplines can come together, the importance of interdisciplinarity, the General Seminars in the Wolff Conference Room, and the Committee on Liberal Studies. Zolberg also describes a feminist scholars program she organized with Ann Snitow, Rayna Rapp, and Louise Tilly. Finally, Zolberg discusses the Gender Studies program.
Date
October 24 2012
Related people
Carmen Hendershott (interviewer)
Vera L. Zolberg (interviewee)
Aristide R. Zolberg (subject)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997). Graduate Faculty. (subject)
George Yúdice (subject)
Rayna R. Reiter (subject)
Louise Tilly (subject)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)
Identifier
NS070101_Zolberg_20121105
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Material Category
Digital AudioType of Work
mp3Description
In this audio interview with librarian Carmen Hendershott, sociology professor emerita Vera Zolberg discusses how she and her husband, Aristide, were invited to join the Graduate Faculty (now, the New School for Social Research) in 1983. She observes the changes the division was experiencing when they arrived, and discusses colleagues including Eric Hobsbawm, Elzbieta Matynia, George Yudice, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Arthur Vidich, Stanley Diamond, Rayna Rapp, and Bill Roseberry. She briefly mentions her husband’s involvement with the Migration Center. Zolberg discusses the need for a physical space where students and faculty from different social science disciplines can come together, the importance of interdisciplinarity, the General Seminars in the Wolff Conference Room, and the Committee on Liberal Studies. Zolberg also describes a feminist scholars program she organized with Ann Snitow, Rayna Rapp, and Louise Tilly. Finally, Zolberg discusses the Gender Studies program.Date
October 24 2012Related people
Carmen Hendershott (interviewer)Vera L. Zolberg (interviewee)
Aristide R. Zolberg (subject)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997). Graduate Faculty. (subject)
George Yúdice (subject)
Rayna R. Reiter (subject)
Louise Tilly (subject)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
Language
EnglishRights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)Identifier
NS070101_Zolberg_20121105There’s more! What you see on this site is only what is viewable online. Please visit archives.newschool.edu to find out more about what’s in the archives.