[Picture info.: Catherine Silver (center) next to Patricia T. Clough (right)
surrounded by students and faculty.]
Personal
Statement-Academic:
I was trained as a sociologist getting my Ph.D from Columbia
University
in 1970. I came from France
after receiving a Masters degree from the Sorbonne (Paris) and being awarded a
Fulbright Fellowship. After a year at Columbia
University
and working at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, I decided that New York
was the place where I belonged. New York
became my home. I taught sociology and socio-psychoanalysis at Brooklyn
College
and the Graduate
Center
of the City University of New York from 1971-2007.
I was involved in feminist issues and the women’s
movement directing for several years the Women's Studies Program
at Brooklyn
College
and for a short period the Center for the Study Women and Society at the Graduate
Center. I was trained to do historical
analysis as well as quantitative work. I have continued to do both types of
research all through my academic career. I taught Social Theory, Gender
and Family, sociology of medicine, feminist research, work and organization, the
sociology of aging, and psychoanalytic sociology (see
attached course outlines).
Current
Research:
-Interviewing social theorists to assess the role of psychoanalysis in
theory construction and research. In collaboration with Professor Lynn Chancer
