Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
is interviewed by cohosts Kat Tansey & Nancy Marriott
on the Finding Magic In Midlife show
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, is a Professor of Education at Harvard University. Since joining the faculty there in 1972, she has been interested in studying the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, the relationships between adult developmental themes and teachers’ work, and socialization within families, communities and schools. Read more....
Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot has written numerous articles, monongraphs, chapters, and nine books. Her books include Balm In Gilead: Journey of a Healer (which won the 1988 Christopher award for literary merit and humanitarian achievement), I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation, and her new book The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty-five Years After 50.
In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Award, in 1993 she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for research that makes the “most valuable contribution to science and to the benefit of mankind,” and in 1995 she became a Spencer Senior Scholar. Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot has been the recipient of twenty-six honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
In 1993, the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Chair, an endowed professorship established at Swarthmore College, was named in her honor. And in 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard University, which upon her retirement will become the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Endowed Chair, making her the first African-American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship in her name.
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