Daniel Yankelovich

Daniel Yankelovich has been a supporter of the Division of Social Sciences for many years and currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council.  Mr. Yankelovich is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University and the Rantoul Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  He holds honorary doctorates from Washington University, George Washington University, and St. Bonaventure University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. 

Mr. Yankelovich is a director of Loral Space and Communications, Inc. and director emeritus of CBS, US West, the Meredith Corporation, Diversified Energies, and ARKLA.  He is a trustee of the Kettering Foundation, the Japan Society, and the Fund for the City of New York, and Special Advisor to the Aspen Institute and Trinity Church.  He is trustee emeritus and former Chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and trustee emeritus of Brown University.  He was a founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.  His academic affiliations include Harvard, NYU, the New School for Social Research, UC Irvine, and UCSD's Civic Collaborative.

 

The UCSD Department of Sociology is pleased to present a series of talks on Social Thought as envisioned by Daniel Yankelovich, a Division of Social Sciences benefactor and sponsor of the newly created Endowed Chair on Social Thought.

We continue the series with a talk by Alan Wolfe, a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His most recent books include Does American Democracy Still Work? (Yale University Press, 2006) Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It (Princeton University Press, 2005), The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Live our Faith (Free Press, 2003), and An Intellectual in Public ( University of Michigan Press, 2003). He is the author or editor of more than ten other books including Marginalized in the Middle (1997), One Nation, After All (1998), Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice (2001) and School Choice: The Moral Debate (editor, 2002). Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Alan Wolfe
Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and
American Public Life at Boston College

"In Praise of Artifice"

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Reception immediately following

The UCSD Faculty Club

For more information on Professor Wolfe, see his faculty web page.

For more information on this talk or the colloquium series, please contact Beverly Bernhardt, bbernhardt@ucsd.edu, (858) 534-2779.

For directions and parking information, click here.

Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Sociology

This colloquium series is made possible by
a gift from Nora and Alan Jaffe.