Julia Wrigley Named Acting Associate Provost

Professor Julia Wrigley of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology has been named Acting Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs at The Graduate Center.

Wrigley received her B.A. with distinction in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1970, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and 1977, respectively. After serving as a faculty member of the departments of Education and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and as Associate Director and Acting Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Wrigley joined The Graduate Center’s sociology faculty in 1991 and served as Executive Officer of the program from 1995 through 2001. She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2004–2005.

Wrigley is the author of Class Politics and Public Schools: Chicago 1900–1950 (Rutgers University Press, 1982) and Other People’s Children: An Intimate Account of Middle-Class Parents and the Women They Hire to Raise Their Children(Basic Books, 1995), and editor of Education and Gender Equality(Falmer Press, 1992). Her most recent research work investigated fatalities in child care and how they are affected by the social organization of care.

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