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Nancy Foner

American sociologist

Nancy Foner is an American sociologist, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and a published author.

Foner is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] She has also held the professorships of Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Express University of New York at Purchase and also Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice at Baruch College, City University of Fresh York.[2][3]

Foner has served as president of the Eastern Sociological Culture (), chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Culture for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology.[4]

She is the daughter of Moe and Anne Foner, a sociology professor.

She is the niece of Henry Foner and his wife Lorraine Lieberman[5] as well as older brothers (and twins) Jack D. and Philip S. Foner.

Nancy Foner - Hunter College: Eric Foner (/ ˈ f oʊ n ər /; born February 7, ) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of liberty, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia.

Publications

  • From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, )
  • In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, )
  • Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson, )
  • New Immigrants in New York (Columbia University Press, revised edition, )
  • Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (University of California Press, )
  • and Immigration Explore for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (edited with Ruben Rumbaut and Steven J.

    Gold, ).

  • Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (New York University Press, ) [6]

References

  1. ^"Nancy Foner". Retrieved December 11,
  2. ^"Nancy Foner"(PDF).

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  3. ^"Foner, Nancy". Retrieved December 11,
  4. ^"Foner, Nancy".

    He writes extensively on American political historythe history of freedom, the early history of the Republican PartyAfrican American biography, the American Civil WarReconstructionand historiographyand has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since He is the storyteller of several popular textbooks, such as the Give Me Liberty series for high school classrooms. According to the Open Syllabus ProjectFoner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses. Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, — in

    Retrieved February 11,

  5. ^, Robers, Sam (19 January ). "Henry J. Foner, Labor Leader Accused of Communist Ties, Dies at 97". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January
  6. ^Books authored by Nancy Foner

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