| Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| The Way She Became An Acedemic |
Laurel Richardson is pretty straight-forward when it comes to things that she would like to know more about, and the things she enjoys spending her time learning. When asked about her choice to follow an academic career that led to so many important achievements in her life, Ms. Richardson said:
"I decided to become an academic AFTER I started graduate school. I totally fell in love with sociology. I read a lot of sociological theory and thought about some big questions, particularly: How do we know we know what we claim we know?"
Laurel Richardson attended graduate school at the University of Colorado(http://www.colorado.edu/), under the teaching of Edward Rose, Robert Hanson, and Alex Garber; all of whom are influential sociologists at the University of Colorado. (http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/acquisitions.htm) Perhaps it was because of these teachers that Laurel Richardson was inspired to seek answers in the field of sociology, a quest which she still follows to this day.
It was interesting to me to hear that she did not decide to become a sociologist until after she had already attended undergraduate school and graduate school. This could have been because of her later discovery of sociological theory, or simply because she came to realize how interested she had become in the field. On a minor note, it was curious to learn that all of her most influential sociology teachers at the University of Colorado were men--could she have known that she would one day become just as prominent in the field as her academic career progressed?
On that same note, during the time that Laurel Richardson was attending graduate school, the male-female ratio was entirely different. It probably was not the easiest decision for her to choose sociology as her academic career, as opposed to a more traditional female job for the time, or becoming a housewife. Luckily, Ms. Richardson knew what she loved to learn about, and was not hesitant to make feminist sociology her career.  |
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