Mark Gottdiener

Mark Gottdiener (born 1943) is an Urban Sociologist/ Cultural Studies academic considered one of the best urbanists in the United States.^[1] With hundreds of citations to his work, including a significant amount from other fields, such as Economics and Semiotics, he has published 16 books, several in multiple editions, and over one hundred scientific papers. In 2010 Cottdiener was honored with the Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. His principle faculty posts were at the University of California, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York. In addition, he held visiting professorships at universities in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and in the US.

Personal Life and Early Career

Gottdiener was born in the South Bronx, NYC, and lived in a tenement with his parents, Moritz (Moshe Ovadiah HaCohen) and Aranka (Rachel HaLevy) Vogel, who were Orthodox Jewish refugees from Hungary that arrived in the U.S. in the late 1930s. Both parents were of mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazic heritage who spoke Hungarian and German in the home. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and the City College of New York majoring in Mathematics. Gottdiener attended graduate school in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota in an accelerated PhD program for mathematically gifted students. He studied with Leonid Hurvicz, Hugo Sonnenschein and John Chipman. However, he dropped out with a Master's degree due to the a- social nature of his studies and because of involvement in the counter- culture activities during the 1960s. In 1970 he entered the Sociology program at SUNY Stony Brook where he studied with David Street, Gerald Suttles and Kurt Lang receiving is PhD in 1973. Gottdiener married his girlfriend from Minneapolis, Jennifer Paulson Garwick, a craft artist with an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1969. They have two sons, Felix and Zev.

Contributions

[1] "UB's Gottdiener Called One of the Most Important Urban Sociologists in the U. S.-- Universityk at Buffalo". www.Buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-03

References

• "UB's Gottdiener Called One of the Most Important Urban Sociologists in U.S. - University at Buffalo". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
• Ray Hutchison (15 September 2009). Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Publications. pp. 319–322. ISBN 978-1-4522-6613-8.