Todd Gitlin
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Todd Gitlin in 2007
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| Born |
January 6, 1943 New York City |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater |
Bronx High School of Science Harvard College (A.B., Mathematics) University of Michigan (M.A., Political Science) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., Sociology) |
| Occupation | sociologist, author, professor |
| Known for | Students for a Democratic Society |
| Spouse(s) | Laurel Ann Cook (m. November 3, 1995) |
| Parent(s) | Max M. Gitlin Dorothy Renik |
| Awards | Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin |
| Website | toddgitlin |
Todd Gitlin (born 1943) is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications.
Gitlin became a political activist in 1960, when he joined a Harvard group called Tocsin, against nuclear weapons. He went on to become vice-chairman and then chairman of the group. He helped organize a national demonstration in Washington, February 16–17, 1962, against the arms race and nuclear testing. In 1963 and 1964, Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society. He helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War, held in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1965, with 25,000 participants, as well as the first civil disobedience directed against American corporate support for the apartheid regime in South Africa—a sit-in at the Manhattan headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank on March 19, 1965. In 1968–69, he was an editor at and a contributor to the San Francisco Express Times, an underground newspaper, and wrote regularly for underground papers via Liberation News Service. In the mid-1980s, he was a leader of Berkeley's Faculty for Full Divestment and president of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/-ae Against Apartheid. In 2013, he became involved in the alumni wing of the Divest Harvard movement, seeking the university's exit from fossil fuel corporations. He has also been active in a Columbia faculty group supporting such divestment. He actively opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeted at Israel.
Gitlin graduated as valedictorian of the Bronx High School of Science, one of New York City's elite public high schools. Enrolling at Harvard College, he graduated with an A.B. cum laude in mathematics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After his leadership in SDS, he earned graduate degrees from the University of Michigan (political science) and the University of California, Berkeley (sociology).
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