Gertrud Lenzer
Professor
Sociology
Location: 3616 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1786
Fax: 718.951.4639
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Gertrud Lenzer is coordinator (since 1994) and director (since 1997), Children's Studies Program, Brooklyn College; professor, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center (since 1984); and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College (since 1980; associate professor, 1973-80; assistant professor, 1971-72). Previously, she was visiting instructor of sociology, NYU (1962-63); research associate, Kinsey Institute, Indiana (1963); research fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (1964); postdoc fellow in American studies, American Council of Learned Societies (1964-66); postdoc fellow, Sociology Dept, Columbia (1964-66); visiting assistant professor of sociology, NYU (1968-69); visiting associate professor of sociology, UC-Berkeley (1972-73); Rockefeller Foundation fellow in the humanities (1977-78); visiting member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1977-78); fellow, National Humanities Center (1980-81); and visiting scholar, Sociology Dept, UNC-Chapel Hill (1981-82).
Education:
Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilian Universitaet Muenchen (Munich) - 1962 (Sociology, Philosophy, Journalism)
Diplom in Zeitungswissenschaft (Journalism), Ludwig-Maximilian Universitaet Muenchen - 1959 (History of and Contemporary Mass Media)
Philosophikum, Ludwig-Maximilian Universitaet Muenchen - 1958 (History of Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
History of social thought, history of sociological theory, contemporary sociological theory, history of philosophy, sociology of children (founder, ASA Section 1991-), interdisciplinary field of children's studies (founder, 1991-), development theories, sociology of religion.
Books and Publications
Lezner, Gertrud (editor),Joseph Grochowalski (assistant editor) and Loretta Chin (managing editor), Proceedings of National Consultation on Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children. Consultation held at the Association of the Bar of New York, Nov. 4, 2011, with major funding from the Carnegie Corporation and additional funding from the Oak Foundation Geneva and from the New York Community Trust and the Mark Family Fund. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Children's Studies Center. http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/childrensstudies/conference/index.htm. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2013
"A Transformative Voice for Children's Rights." Head of the Class: Salute to Scholars, a CUNY publication, Winter 2013: 22f. (Awards and Honors) 2013
Invitation by Transaction Publishers to edit and publish--as chairwoman and organizer of the Charles R. Lawrence Memorial Lecture Committee--all Charles R. Lawrence Memorial Lectures delivered by distinguished American social scientists and humanists since 1989. 2007
"The Origins of Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Future Challenges" keynote presentation. Conference on Children Studies as an Interpretative Perspective, the first children's studies conference in Poland. University of Bialystok, Poland, March 22-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Attendance at official Session of U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and U.S. Delegation from U.S. Departments of State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, at Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais Wilson, Geneva, by invitation, Jan. 16. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Autobiography project with students at Brooklyn College, 1994-96 and to present. 1994
Professor of sociology and children's studies, Brooklyn College. 2008
"The Origins of Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Future Challenges." Translated into Polish and to be published in proceedings of the Conference on Children Studies as an Interpretative Perspective. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Alternative Report and Legislative Annex on "New York State Measures Giving Effect to the Optional Protocol," submitted by the Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, Geneva, May 17. ("Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography" - OPSC. The United States of America signed and ratified this international treaty and is a State party to this treaty.) (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2012
Editor, Proceedings of National Consultation on "Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children. Held at Association of the Bar of New York, Nov. 4, 2011. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
"Rights and the Role of Family Engagement in Child Welfare: An International Treaties Perspective on Family's Rights, Parents' Rights, and Children's Rights." Child Welfare. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Lenzer, Gertrud and Brian Gran. "Rights and the Role of Family Engagement in Child Welfare: An International Treaties Perspective on Families Rights, Parents' Rights, and Children's Rights." Child Welfare. Special Issue: Taking Child and Family Rights Seriously: Family Engagement and its Evidence in Child Welfare. Guest eds. Joan Pennell, Gale Burford, Marie Connolly, Kate Morris and Julie Collins. Child Welfare League of America. 157-79. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Implementation and Monitoring of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography. Proceedings of the 3rd Child Policy Forum convened at the Church Center of the United Nations, Feb. 9. Published by Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service, Brooklyn College, summer 2009. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2009
New Horizons. The Future of Children, Youth, and the Public Good No. 1. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2008
"Whither Sociology: Some Reflections on 'Globalization' and 'Social Capital'" keynote address. Conference of the Research Committee on Sociotechnics and Social Planning, International Sociological Association. Lesvos, Greece, June 2004. Published by invitation in International Review of Sociology (Revue Internationale de Sociologie) 17.3, November: 495-509. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Auguste Comte and Positivism. The Essential Writings. New edition with new introduction and postscript. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. Reprint of 1997 edition. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2004
Children and the Law in New York. Conference proceedings, documents, New York State Legislation, etc., 2004-present. Available at http://depthome.brooklyn.edu/
Proceedings of Policy Symposium: Children and the Law in New York. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Children's Studies Center. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2004
"The Future of Children: The Great Enigma." Creating Chances, Opening Perspectives: Effective Prevention. 26: 10-13. SOS kinderdorforum. Herman Gmeiner Academy. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2003
"Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Toward a Unified Approach." Children as Equals: Exploring the Rights of the Child. Eds. Kathleen and Brian Klug. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 208-25. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002
"Children's Studies: Beginnings and Purposes." Introductory essay. Children's Studies. Special Issue to Lion and the Unicorn 25. Ed. Roni Natov. 181-86. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001
"The Human Rights Agenda and the Rights of Children: Towards a Unified Approach." Whittier Law Review 21.1: 107-17. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
"The New Pedagogy of Children's Studies: The Role of Higher Education in Disseminating the Knowledge from Research, Practice and Policy." Proceedings of Head Start Fourth National Research Conference. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1999
"The Importance of Children's Rights Programs in Academic Institutions." Loyola Poverty Law Journal 4: 251-61. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998
Interview article on "Children's Studies and Current Child Issues." Dallas Morning News. Sunday Reader June 21: 1J and 10J. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998
Review of The Participation Rights of Children: Rights and Responsibilities in Family and Society, by Malfrid Grude Flekkoy and Natalie Hevener Kaufman. International Journal of Children's Rights 6.3: 350-57. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998
"Auguste Comte and the Tower of Science." New introductory essay. Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. XI-XXI. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1997
"Mind-Forged Manacles: Auguste Comte and the Future." 12th Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture, London School of Economics and Political Science, January 1978. Republished as "Postscript" to Auguste Comte and Positivism. The Essential Writings. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publisher. 493-519. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1997
Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings. New edition with new introduction and postscript. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1997
"Child Health and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Global Strategies for the Future." Proceedings of Alpbacher Gesundheitsgespraeche 1996. Europaeisches Forum Alpbach. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1996
"Children in America: 1964-1994." What Became of the Great Society? Comparative Perspectives on the U.S.A. in the 1960s and 1990s. Ed. Winfried Herget. Trier: WIssenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 52-63. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1996
"Children's Studies and the Arts and Sciences. Recent Trends." Understanding Children's Rights. Collected Papers Presented at the First International Interdisciplinary Course on Children's Rights. Ed. Eugeen Verhellen. Ghent, Belgium: University of Ghent, Children's Rights Centre. 169-74. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1996
"The Development of Children's Rights and the Arts and Sciences." Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Fall 1996 Symposium. Transnational Law @ Contemporary Problems. A Journal of the University of Iowa College of Law 6.2, Fall. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996
Lenzer, Gertrud and Nancy Fox. American Sociological Association, Sociology of Children Section Network Directory. Annotated, and prepared for more than 450 members of the section. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1994
Co-founder, CHILDNEWS, the Official Newsletter of the Sociology of Children Section of the American Sociological Association. 1992 and 1993, vol. 1, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Author of large parts of the newsletter. Winter 1992. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1992
"The Sociology of Children: A New ASA Section." Footnotes of the American Sociological Association 19.6, August. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1991
"Under Western Eyes: Literature and Terrorism," in Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag of Professor Peter Atteslander. Augsburg. 82-93. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1991
"AIDS in Amerika." Der AIDS-Komplex. DImensionen einer Bedrohung. Ed. Ernst Burkel. Frankfurt and Berlin: Ullstein. 196-221. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1988
"The 'Sociological Tradition' in American Perspective." Kulturanthropologie. Beitraege zum Neubeginn einer Disciplin. Festgabe fuer Emerich K. Francis zum 80. Geburgtstag. Ed. Werner von der Ohe. Volume 15 of Sozialwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Goerrres-Gesellschaft. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 261-72. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1987
Review of Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy, by James Miller. Sociology and Social Research. An International Journal 70.2: 183f. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1986
"Ellen: The Case of a Child with Spina Bifida." Co-author of case study and instructional material for second-year medical students, Columbia University Medical School. New York: Trustees of Columbia University. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1983
Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism: The Essential Writings. New edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1983
"Allen: The Case of a Child with Spina Bifida" video case study. Co-producer and co-editor. Instructional material for second-year medical students, Columbia University Medical School. New York: Trustees of Columbia University. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1980
"Mind-Forged Manacles: Auguste Comte and the Future. The Twelfth Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture on January 12, 1978, at the London School of Economics and Political Science." Marxist Perspectives 2.3: 62-88. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1979
"Mind-Forged Manacles: Auguste Comte and the Future." The Times Higher Educational Supplement (London) January 27. (Selections from the Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1978
"Positivism." The Encyclopedia Americana Vol. 22. (Commissioned for new edition and with special emphasis on positivism and the history of philosophy.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1978
Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism: The Essential Writings. 2nd printing. New York: Harper & Row. First published by Harper & Row, 1975. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1978
"Policies of the Social Sciences." Social Research: An International Quarterly 43.1, Spring: 153-68. Interaction Between European and American Social Science. Ed. Arien Mack. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1976
"Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism." Introductory analytical essay. Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism: The Essential Writings. Ed. Gertrud Lenzer. New York: Harper & Row. XIII-XLVIII. Republished in all later editions, also by University of Chicago Press and Transaction Publishers, 1975, 1978, 1983, 1997 and 2004. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975
"On Masochism. A Contribution to the History of a Phantasy and Its Theory." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1.2: 277-324. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975
Auguste Comte and Modern Positivism: The Essential Writings. New York: Harper & Row. Commissioned. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1975
Review of Twilight of Authority by Robert Nisbet. Second lead review. The New York Times Book Review October 5. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1975
Review of The Modern World System. Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century, by Immanuel Wallerstein. Second lead review. The New York Times Book Review December 29. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1974
Review essay on the critical theorists of the "Frankfurt School." Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, Marx Horkheimer, Critical Theory, and Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, second lead review, The New York Times Book Review Oct. 23. By invitation. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1973
Lenzer, Gertrud and Norman Birnbaum. Sociology and Religion. A Book of Readings. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1969
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Featured in Marquis Who's Who in America, 2013 and 2014. (Awards and Honors) 2013
"Professor Gertrud Lenzer Testifies Before U.N. Committee." Brooklyn College Magazine, Fall 2012: 6. (Awards and Honors) 2012
Featured in Marquis Who's Who in America. (Awards and Honors) 2012
Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for National Consultation, for "Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children." Principal investigator. July 2011-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Featured in Marquis Who's Who in America. (Awards and Honors) 2011
New York Community Trust / Mark Family Fund, 2010-11. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
CUNY Diversity Project Development Fund grant, principal Investigator, 2010-11.
(Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Hamill Family Fund award, for "Children and the Law Project." Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Award(s) Grants, Children's Studies Child Policy Forum of New York, P.I., CUNY Diversity Project Development Fund, 2009-10, P.I. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Children's Studies Policy Research grant, for "Violence Against Children." Oak Foundation, Geneva. Principal investigator. 2009-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund grant, for 4th Child Policy Forum of New York: 2009-10. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
Grants, Children's Studies Program and Child Policy Research, P.I., New York Community Trust/ Mark Family Fund, 2009-10. Principal Investigator (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund, 2007-08; Award(s) Grants, Child Bereavement Research, P.I., New York Life Foundation, 2008-09; Award(s) Grants, New York Community Trust/ Mark Family FUnd, P.I., Children's Studies Program and Child Policy Research, P.I., 2008-09; Award(s) Grants, Children's Studies Child Policy Forum of New York, P.I., CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund, 2007-08; Award(s) Grants, Children's Studies Program and Child Policy Research, P.I., New York COmmunity Trust/Mark Family Fund, 2009-10; Award(s) Grants, Child Policy Forum of New York, P.I., CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund, 2008-09. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Grants, Children's Studies Program and Child Policy Research, P.I., New york Community Trust/ Mark Family Fund, 2007-08; Award(s) Grants, Children's Studies Program and Child Policy Research, P.I., Colgate-Palmolive Corporation, 2007-08; Award(s) Grants, Children's Studies Child Policy Forum of New York, P.I. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
Award to Children's Studies of Professorial CUNY Cluster Line to start Child Demography in context and collaboration with new CUNY Institute of Demography, June. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Colgate-Palmolive grant, for "Global Giving." Principal investigator, 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund grant, for Children's Studies Child Policy Forum of New York. Principal investigator, 2007-08. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Featured in "Children's Champion." First issue of Research at CUNY. (Awards and Honors) 2007
Grants, Children's Studies Inaugural Child Policy Forum of New York, P.I., CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund, 2006-07; Award(s). (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
New York Community Trust grant. Principal investigator, 2007-11. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
"Ready to Learn Partnership" grant to Michael Cohen Group, New York, Principal Investigator, from U.S. Department of Education grant. Children's Studies, Brooklyn College, Subcontractor. Gertrud Lenzer, co-principal investigator. November 2005-06. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
CUNY Diversity Projects Development Fund grant, to launch inaugural Child Policy Forum of New York: The Right of Every Child. Principal investigator, 2006-07 (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Award of professorial CUNY Cluster Line in Child Welfare Policy and Analysis by Executive Vice Chancellor Louise Mirrer, CUNY, for Children's Studies Program and Center, June. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Featured in CUNY Emmy-nominated TV series Study with the Best. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Carnegie Corporation of New York grant, to Children's Studies Center for "Children and the Law in New York: A Policy Symposium." 2003-04. (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
Scholar in Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, Spring. (Grants and Fellowships) 1998
CUNY/Diamond New Visions in Education Award, for "Children's Studies Planning Grant." Principal investigator, 1997-98. (Grants and Fellowships) 1997
Elected to board of directors, National Child Labor Committee, 1997-present. (Awards and Honors) 1997
Lewis Hine Award, "In Honor of Outstanding Service on Behalf of Children and Youth," National Child Labor Committee, January. (Awards and Honors) 1997
CUNY/Diamond New Visions in Education Award, for "Children's Studies Planning Grant." Principal investigator, 1996-97. (Grants and Fellowships) 1996
N.E.H. Grant Proposal participant in American Museum of Natural History proposal for major exhibition on children. Funding approved. (Grants and Fellowships) 1996
Elected member, scientific board, Swiss Academy of Development, Solothurn, Switzerland, 1995-2000. (Awards and Honors) 1995
Elected to "Founding Chair," American Sociological Association Sociology of Children Section. (Awards and Honors) 1993
Foundation for Child Development Planning Grant, for "Multidisciplinary Consortium on Child Research and Policy." (Grants and Fellowships) 1993
PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award, for "The Foundation of the Sociology of Children and Children's Studies as New Interdisciplinary Fields of Research." 1993-94. (Grants and Fellowships) 1993
PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award, for "The Foundation of the Sociology of Children and Children's Studies as New Interdisciplinary Fields of Research." 1992-93. (Grants and Fellowships) 1992
Visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981-82. (Grants and Fellowships) 1981
Fellow, National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1980-81. (Grants and Fellowships) 1980
Summer visitor, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Palo Alto, Calif. (Grants and Fellowships) 1979
Invitation to be a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, 1977-78. Unable to accept. (Grants and Fellowships) 1977
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, 1977-78. (Grants and Fellowships) 1977
Twelfth Auguste Comte Memorial Trust Lecture. London School of Economics and Political Science. January. (First American and first woman scholar to deliver this lecture.) (Awards and Honors) 1977
Visiting member, The Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, N.J., 1977-78. (Grants and Fellowships) 1977
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 1965-66. (Grants and Fellowships) 1965
Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Studies, American Council of Learned Societies. New York, 1965-66. (Grants and Fellowships) 1965
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 1964-65. (Grants and Fellowships) 1964
Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Studies, American Council of Learned Societies. New York, 1964-65. (Grants and Fellowships) 1964
Thyssen Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Ludwig-Maximilian University. Munich, Germany, 1961-62. (Grants and Fellowships) 1961
Research Activities
"Curriculum Materials for Medical Education on Issues of Values and Ethics in Health Care." Evaluation Report for National Endowment for the Humanities. Columbia University. By invitation. 1980
Research associate, Interdisciplinary Research Program on Issues of Values and Ethics in Health Care. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1974-80. 1974
Research in Leicester, England. Spring and Summer. 1967
Research in Paris. Invitation by Lucien Goldman. Fall. 1966
Research fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, Spring and Summer. 1964
Research associate, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Summer and Fall. 1963
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"How Can the History of Humanitarianism or Other Rights Movements Illuminate our Understanding of Human Rights? How Pertinent to the Practical Application of Human Rights Law Today Is an Understanding of Prior Movements?" panel moderator. Panelists: Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Harvard University) and Professor Samuel Moyns (Columbia University). National and International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities. The National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 15-17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Organizer and chairwoman, Children's Studies Center National Consultation. "Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children," convened at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Nov. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Origins, Mission and Policy Work at the Children's Studies Center and Program at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York." The Interdisciplinary Field of Children's Studies at Brooklyn College: Origins, Mission, and Research Agenda Panel, International Conference on Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal. Organized by the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 28-29. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Right to Participation in Education System" panel. Columbia University Child Rights Working Group, The Child Right to Participation: Ethical Challenges Conference. Columbia Law School, April 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"The Interdisciplinary Field of Children's Studies at Brooklyn College: Origins, Mission, and Research Agenda" panel organizer and chairwoman. International Conference on Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal. Organized by the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 28-29. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Disproportionality of African American and Hispanic Children and Young People in U.S. and New York Systems of Public School, Foster Care, and Juvenile/Criminal Justice." Second Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference. Oct. 5. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Disproportionality of African American and Hispanic Children and Young People in U.S. and New York Systems of Public School, Foster Care, and Juvenile/Criminal Justice." Second Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference. Oct. 5. Manuscript in preparation for publication. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Moderator, "Challenges Facing African American Male Students" panel. Pre-Kindergarten to High School, Second Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference. Oct. 5. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Discussion moderator after Professor John Hope Franklin's keynote address at First and Inaugural Annual CUNY Black Male Initiative Conference. John Jay College, April 26. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Children in America: 1964 to 1994." Department of English Philology and American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany, July. By invitation. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1994
"The Imagination of Childhood in Literature." International Sociological Association World Congress. Bielefeld, Germany, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1994
Professional Leadership
Invitation by executive director of the Asian American Federation to serve on Advisory Committee for the Study of Asian American Children. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
Participation in NGO Consultation with U.S. Delegation at U.S. Mission, Geneva, for discussion of U.S. implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OPSC), an international treaty ratified by the United States of America in 2002, by invitation from U.S. Department of State and Ambassador Betty King, Jan. 15. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2013
Invited as representative of the Children's Studies Center to Pre-sessional Working Group NGO Meeting at U.N. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights to appear before the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child to discuss Children's Studies Center Alternative Report in two parts on "New York State Measures Giving Effect to the Optional Protocol" in New York State. ("Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography" OPSC. The United States of America signed and ratified this international treaty and is a State party to this treaty.) Geneva, June 18. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2012
Organizer and chairwoman, Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service, National Consultation. "Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children," Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Nov. 4, 2011. Funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Principal investigator. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2011
Children's Studies Center Legislative Policy Initiatives for establishment of independent New York State Office of the Child Advocate, Consultancy with New York State legislators, 2004-present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Director, Children's Studies Center, Brooklyn College, since 1997. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
Personal invitation by Judge Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of the State of New York Court of Appeals and chairwoman of the Commission on Justice for Children, to attend the New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting, "Presidential Summit: Breaking the Cycle for Youth at Risk." Moderated by Judge Kaye. Jan. 30. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Testimony before New York State Assembly Committee on Higher Education on "Examining the New York State Higher Education Preliminary Report and Its Initial Recommendations." New York, Feb. 8. By invitation. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2008
Children's Studies Center Legislative Policy Initiatives for establishment of independent New York State Office of the Child Advocate, Consultancy with New York State legislators. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2007
Elected alternate member, CUNY University Faculty Senate, 2007-08. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007
Elected member, Brooklyn College Policy Council, 2007-09. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007
Founder, Children's Studies "Child Policy Forum of New York." (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007
Organizer and chairwoman, 13th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "Popular Power in A Globalizing World," delivered by Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate and University Center, CUNY, and President of the American Sociological Association, Brooklyn College, November. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007
Organizer and chairwoman, Children's Studies Center Second Child Policy Forum of New York: Briefing Session and Discussion of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. November 16. Only briefing session in New York City. Similar briefing sessions were held at universities and law schools across the United States on that day. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2007
Organizer, chairwoman and speaker, inaugural Brooklyn College Children's Studies Center "Child Policy Forum of New York: The Right of Every Child." April 26. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2007
Organizer, chairwoman and speaker, inaugural Brooklyn College Children's Studies Center "Child Policy Forum of New York: The Right of Every Child." New York State and New York City legislators discussion of pending legislation of New York State Office of the Child Advocate. April 26. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2007
Since 1990, chairwoman of Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture Committee and organizer of 12 interdisciplinary public policy lectures of the Department of Sociology and the Office of the President. The distinguished lecturers from 1990 forward were: Professors John Hope Franklin (History), Eugene D. Genovese (History), William Julius Wilson (Sociology), Frances Degen Horowitz (Psychology), Hylan Lewis (Sociology), Herbert J. Gans (Sociology), Barbara J. Fields (History), Robert K. Merton (Sociology), Jagdish Bhagwati (Economics), Immanuel Wallerstein (Sociology), Irving Louis Horowitz (Sociology) and Frances Fox Piven (Political Science and Sociology). (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007
Children's Studies Center Legislative Policy Initiatives for establishment of independent New York State Office of the Child Advocate, Consultancy with New York State legislators. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2006
Founding of "Child Policy Forum of New York," 2006-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006
Invited member, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and University Provost Dr. Selma Botman's Task Force on "Tsunami and Children." (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005
Testimony at the New York State Assembly Legislature, Committee on Children and Families, Public Hearing on the Establishment of an Independent Office of the Child Advocate. May. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2005
Children's Studies Center Legislative Policy Initiatives for establishment of independent New York State Office of the Child Advocate, Consultancy with New York State Legislators. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2004
Organizer and chairwoman, 12th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "The Limits of Public Policy and the Changing Character of Social Science in the United States: Comparing 1904 and 2004," delivered by Irving Louis Horowitz, Hannah Arendt University Professor Emeritus, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, November. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2004
Organizer, chairwoman and principal investigator, Children's Studies all-day "Child Policy Symposium: Children and the Law in New York." Association of the Bar of the City of New York. March 11. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2004
Organizer and chairwoman, 11th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "America and the World: The Twin Tower as Metaphor," delivered by Immanuel Wallerstein, Director, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar, Yale University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2001
Organizer and chairwoman, 10th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "Capitalism and Well-being: Governance in the 21st Century," delivered by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1999
Organizer and chairwoman, 9th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "De-Gendering 'Man opf Science': A Venture in Sociological Semantics," delivered by Robert K. Merton, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1998
Organizer and chairwoman, 8th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "Race in American Life," delivered by Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History, Columbia University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1997
Pioneering leadership--founding director, Children's Studies Center, Brooklyn College, 1997-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1997
Organizer and chairwoman, 7th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "The War Against the Poor and the Job Crisis," delivered by Herbert J. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1996
Organizer and chairwoman, 6th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "What's in a Name? The Semantic Politics of Poverty, Race, and Class," delivered by Hylan Lewis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College and the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1995
"The Social and Psychological Implications of the Global Implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child." Organizer and chairwoman, Special Event Symposium at the Biennial Meetings of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development. Amsterdam, June/July. By invitation of ISSBD Program Committee. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Co-convener, one-day, CUNY-Wide Interdisciplinary Children's Studies Conference. Brooklyn College, May. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Director, Children's Studies Program, Brooklyn College, since 1994. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Member, advisory board, International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Publishers. 1994-96. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Member, editorial board, Childhood. A Global Journal of Child Research. Sage Publications. 1994-96. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Organizer and chairperson, "Thematic Group on Sociology of Childhood" session. International Sociological Association World Congress. Bielefeld, Germany, July. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Organizer and chairwoman, 5th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "'You Said It Would Be Safe', Children and Violence," delivered by Frances Degen Horowitz, President, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1994
Member, International Executive Board, Childwatch International Research Net. Oslo, 1993-95. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1993
Organizer and chairwoman, 4th Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "'You The Changing Context of Race and Poverty in Urban America," delivered by William Julius WIlson, Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Chicago. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1993
Co-founder, Childwatch International Research Net. Bergen, Norway. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1992
Founding and promotion of child demography as a new field and perspective. Billund, Denmark, 1992-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1992
Organizer and chairwoman, 3rd Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "The Southern Conservative Tradition," delivered by Eugene D. Genovese, Distinguihsed Scholar in Residence, University Center, Atlanta. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1992
Pioneering achievement--founder and director of interdisciplinary field of children's studies, 1991-2010. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1991
Pioneering achievement--founder and founding chairwoman, Sociology of Children Section, American Sociological Association, 1991-2010. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1991
Organizer and chairwoman, 2nd Charles R. Lawrence II Memorial Lecture, "Whither American Brotherhood," delivered by John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History and Professor of Legal History in the Law School, Duke University. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1990
Pedagogical Achievements
Curricular development of interdisciplinary courses in children's studies from 1994 to present: Perspectives on Childhood; Applied Research in Children's Studies; Special Topics: Issues in Children's Studies; The Human Rights of Children: A Transnational Perspective; Children in Crisis; The Professional Performing Child: Past and Present Issues; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Disability: National and International Developments; Child Abuse and Neglect; Children and the Law; Children of New York; The History of Children: Public Policy and the Law in the United States (cross-listed); and Internship in Applied Children's Studies. 1994
Founder and chairwoman, Sociology of Children Section in American Sociological Association, 1991-93. Section established 1992 in and handed over with more than 400 members in 1994. 1991
Founder, American Sociological Section of Sociology of Children, 1991-present. 1991
Founder, field of interdisciplinary children's studies, 1991-present. 1991
Founder, interdisciplinary field of children's studies. Development of field, 1991-present. Participating departments: Africana Studies, Education, English, Health and Nutrition Sciences, History, Psychology, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Sociology and Speech Communication Arts and Sciences. Liberal arts minor, 1994-present. Thirty-credit concentration for early childhood education and early education majors (equivalent of second major), 2001-present. Children's studies major, in preparation, 2008. 1991
Other Professional Activities
Professor of sociology, Doctoral Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center. 2008





