Dr. Juliet Schor to Address Honors Institute
Dr. Juliet Schor, distinguished author and professor, will speak to the
2008 International Honors Institute on the topic "The Overworked and Overspent
American: The Paradox of Affluence."
Dr. Schor joins a slate
of outstanding speakers scheduled to address varying perspectives of
the 2008-2010 Honors Study Topic, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices,
Challenges, and Consequences.
The 2008 Honors
Institute will be held June 16-21 at San Francisco State University
(SFSU) in San Francisco, California. Download a registration
form.
Dr. Schor is a Professor of Sociology at Boston
College and formerly taught at Harvard University in the Department of
Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies.
She
was an Honors Satellite Seminar presenter in 2005, speaking on children's
consumer culture, with special emphasis on the role of marketing and its
connection to popular culture.
Schor is author of the national
best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need.
The Overworked American is widely credited for influencing the
national debate on work and family.
She is also the author of
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture,
and Do Americans Shop Too Much? Dr. Schor is currently working on
issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans'
lifestyles.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Dr. Schor went
on to receive her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts. She also holds
a chair in the Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University in the
Netherlands.
Schor has lectured widely throughout the United
States, Europe and Japan; and appears frequently on national and international
television and radio.
Previously
announced speakers are Dr. Douglas Brinkley and Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes.
