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Sociology Dept.
H. Gray, Chair
C. West, Grad Director
B. Crow, UG Educ Cmte Chr
College 8, 226
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Pamela Ann Roby Home  Directory Pamela Ann Roby
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Pamela Ann Roby
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Professor Emerita |
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Emeriti |
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roby@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-2587 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message |
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College 8, 218 |
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Office Hours - Weds 12:30-3:15; and by appt |
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| Courses Taught | |
Dissertation Studies, Independent Studies, Senior Thesis
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| Research Focus | |
Women and work; sociology of learning; social policy; sociology of young children; social inequality; leadership and social change; sociology of emotions; feminist research.
Future Directions for Research:
Women and men trade union stewards: rank and file leaders in contemporary work settings. |
| Long Description | |
Pamela Roby has published four books and dozens of articles on infant and early childhood development policies, social and economic inequalities, higher education, trade union leadership, and women and work.
Dr. Roby has served as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1997-98), vice-president of the Pacific Sociological Association (1996-97), president of Sociologists for Women in Society, and chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Sex and Gender, as well as vice-chair of the National Commisssion on Working Women. She has also served as an elected member of the Research Council of the International Sociological Association, the Executive Council of the American Sociological Association, and the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Vocational Education Research and Development.
At UCSC, Dr. Roby has directed the Sociology Doctoral Program (1988-91, 2007), and chaired the Department of Sociology (1998-2001), the Academic Senate's Graduate Council (1990-91) and the Senate's Committee on Academic Personnel (1995-96). Dr. Roby is listed in American Men and Women in Science (Twelfth Edition, 1973) and in Who's Who in America, Fifty-fourth Edition (2000) – Sixty-third Edition (2009). Professor Roby is also listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers (seventh edition, 2002–tenth edition, 2006), and she was the recipient of a 1993 University of California, Santa Cruz, Academic Senate Innovations in Teaching Award. Her autobiography is one of twenty included in Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women In Sociology (A. Goetting, S. Fenstermaker, eds.), Temple University Press, 1995, pp. 319-339. |
| Education History | |
B.A., University of Denver
M.A., Syracuse University
Ph.D., New York University |
| Selected Publications | |
Roby, P.A. 2004. "Jessie Shurley Bernard," in S. Ware (ed.), Notable American Women, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Roby, P.A. 1998. "Creating a Just World: Leadership for the Twenty-First Century,"Social Problems, Vol. 45, No. 1, February, 1998, pp. 1-20.
Roby, P.A. "Community Conferencing in Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Perspectives on the Victim-Offender Emotional Exchange." Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. 67, 1998, pp. 645-651.
Roby, P. A. "Becoming Shop Stewards: Perspectives on Gender and Race in Ten Trade Unions," Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 65-82.
Roby, P. A. "Becoming An Active Feminist Academic: Gender, Class, Race and Intelligence," in Ann Goetting and Sarah Fenstermaker (eds.), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology, Philadelphia: Temple Unviersity Press, 1995, pp. 319-339.
Roby, P.A. and L.Uttal, "Putting It All Together: The Dilemmas of Rank-and File Union Leaders," in Dorothy Sue Cobble (ed.), Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1993, pp. 363-377.
Roby, P. A. 1992. "Women and the ASA: Degendering Organizational Structures and Processes, 1964-1974." (part 1) (part 1) American Sociologist, 23:18-47.
Roby, P. A. 1992. "Women and the ASA: Degendering Organizational Structures and Processes, 1964-1974." (part 2).American Sociologist, 23:18-47.
Roby, P. A. and L. Uttal. 1988. "Trade Union Stewards: Coping with Union, Work and Family Responsibilities." In Women and Work: An Annual Review. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 3, pp. 215-248; revised and reprinted in Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed., Women and Unions: Forging A Partnership, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, pp. 363-378.
Roby, P. A. 1987. "Union Stewards and Women's Employment Conditions." In C. Bose and G. Spitz, eds., Ingredients for a Women's Employment Policy. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Roby, P.A. 1981. Women in the Workplace. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co.
Roby, P. A., ed. 1974. The Poverty Establishment, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Roby, P. A., ed. 1973. Child Care-Who Cares? Foreign and Domestic Infant and Early Childhood Development Policies. New York: Basic Books. Student paperback ed. with new introduction, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1975.
Roby, P. A. 1972. "Women and American Higher Education." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 404.
Miller, S. M., and Roby, P. A. 1970. The Future of Inequality. New York: Basic Books.
Roby, P. A. 1969. "Politics and Criminal Law: Revision of the New York State Penal Law on Prostitution." Social Problems, 17(1). |
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