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Boston College
McGuinn Hall 519
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Co-Founder and Co-Chair,Board of the Center for a New American Dream

Juliet Schor is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. Her most recent book is True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy (2011 by The Penguin Press, previously published as Plenitude). She wrote the national best-seller The Overworked American, The Overspent American and Born to Buy. Schor is a Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair of the Center for a New American Dream, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and the 2011 winner of the Herman Daly Prize. In 2006 Schor was awarded the Leontief Prize for expanding the frontiers of economic thought.

Issues: Austerity, Capitalism, Economic Forecasting, Economic Theory, Economy and Gender, Economy and Race, Family/Medical leave, Jobs, Keynes v. Friedman, Labor Force, Living Wage, OSHA, Retirement, Service Economy, Unemployment Insurance, Unions

Experience:

• Senior Scholar, Center for Humans and Nature, 2011
• Professor of Sociology, Boston College, July 2001-present. Department Chair, July 2005-2008
• Visiting Professor, Yale School of Environment and Forestry, Spring 2010
• Director, Women’s Studies, Harvard University, 1997-July 2001
• Professor, Economics of Leisure Studies, University of Tilburg, 1995-2001
• Senior Lecturer, Economics, Harvard University, 1992-1996
• Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1989-1992
• Research Advisor, Project on Global Macropolicy, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations, 1985-1992