Judith Friedlander

Judith Friedlander is a professor of anthropology at Hunter College in New York City.[1] She is the acting director of Academic Programs and former Dean of Roosevelt House, as well as the former dean of The New School.[2]

Anthropology

Friedlander received a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973.[3] She is best known for her 1975 work Being Indian in Hueyapan,[4] a study of indigenous Latin American life and culture in Hueyapan, Mexico, and her 1990 Vilna on the Seine about Jewish intellectuals in France.[5][6] In the late 2010s, Friedlander worked on a book on the history of The New School entitled A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile, released in February 2019.[7] In the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish scholars, mostly from Germany and France, and mostly social scientists, came to the US as refugees and began working at the New School. A number of these scholars, particularly those with expertise in politics, social theory and economic policy, went on to serve in the Roosevelt Administration.[7]

References

  1. ^ Ute Gacs (1988). Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies. University of Illinois Press. pp. 423–4. ISBN 978-0-252-06084-7.
  2. ^ "Judith Friedlander - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College". Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
  3. ^ "(Professor Emerita) Judith Friedlander". New York: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  4. ^ Friedlander, Judith (2007). Being Indian in Hueyapan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0312238995. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  5. ^ "The Many Meanings of the Idea of a 'French Jew'". Tablet magazine. 7 March 2012.
  6. ^ Goldstein, Judith L. (1993). "Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France since 1968. JUDITH FRIEDLANDER". American Ethnologist. 20 (3): 647–648. doi:10.1525/ae.1993.20.3.02a00310.
  7. ^ a b Friedlander, Judith (2019). A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231542579.