PHI THETA KAPPA International Honor Society of the Two Year College

Dr. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at Boston College. She taught at Harvard University from 1984-2001, as Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics and in the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. Schor is the author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumerism, and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. Her forthcoming book is Consumerism and its Discontents. Schor has served as a consultant to the United Nations, a Guggenheim fellow, and in 2006 she received the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Schor is a co-founder and co-chair of the board of the Center for a New American Dream (newdream.org). She is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles.