Professor

Harriet Anne Zuckerman

Columbia University
Sociologist; Educator; Foundation executive
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Elected
1985

Former Senior Vice President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Professor of Sociology Emerita at Columbia University. Research focuses on the social organization of science and scholarship and higher education. Author of Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States. Coauthor of Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities. Coeditor of The Outer Circle: Women in the Scientific Community. Served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology, and the board of reviewing editors of Science. Trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and board member of Annual Reviews, Inc. Served on the Committee of Selection of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, on the boards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Social Science Research Council, and as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Vice President and Member, American Philosophical Society.

Last Updated