In Their Own Words: Alumni in Sociology

Steve Cutler '64

After graduation, I went to the University of Michigan where I got a PhD in Sociology (1969).  I taught in the Department of Sociology at Oberlin College from 1969-1984. I then moved to the University of Vermont to accept an endowed chair in gerontology, staying there until I “retired” in 2009.  Along the way, I’ve been President of the Gerontological Society of America, Chair of its Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and Chair of ASA’s Section on Aging and the Life Course.  Since retiring, I’ve been teaching part-time at the University of Bucharest (where I’ve had three Fulbright awards) and doing research and writing on population aging and on concerns about developing Alzheimer’s disease.

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Judy Danna