| 1 | Name: | Dr. Robin M. Williams | |
| Institution: | University of California, Irvine & Cornell University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1967 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1914 | ||
| Death Date: | June 3, 2006 | ||
Robin M. Williams, Jr., is Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science Emeritus, Cornell University, and Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine (1990-2005). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.S. (1933) and M.S. (1935) degrees from North Carolina State College and the University of North Carolina. His M.A. (1939) and Ph.D. (1943) are from Harvard University. In 1989 he received a D.Sc. from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. During the Second World War, Williams was Senior Statistical Analyst, European Theater of Operations, U.S. War Department, 1943-46. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Oslo, the University of Hawaii, and the University of California, Irvine. He is past president of the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Sociological Research Association. His professional activities include service on the Executive Committee, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council. He served as Editor of the Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series for the American Sociological Association 1977-79, and as Editor of Sociological Forum (from 1984 to 1992). Williams is co-author of The American Soldier (Vols. I-II), 1949; Schools in Transition (1954), and What College Students Think (1960). His other major writings include The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions (1947), Strangers Next Door: Ethnic Relations in American Communities (1964), American Society: A Sociological Interpretation (1st edition, 1951, 2nd edition, 1960, 3rd edition, 1970), and The Wars Within (2003). He was co-editor, with Gerald Jaynes, of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society (1989). In 2005, he continued to teach at the University of California, Irvine, as a visiting professor. | |||