• CURRENT POSITIONS
  Distinguished Professor of Economics
  Department of Economics
  University of California, Riverside
  Director, Center for Social and Economic Policy
  University of California, Riverside

• PERSONAL
  Born December 8, 1942, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
  Lived and educated in Richland, Washington.
  Married: Susan Boslego Carter
  

• EDUCATION
  University of Washington, Seattle
  B.A., Economics, 1963
  Thesis: "The Profitability of Antebellum Slavery -- Revisited"
  Douglass North, thesis advisor
  
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
  Ph.D., Economics, 1968
  Dissertation: "Expectations, Risk, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates"
  Franco Modigliani, dissertation advisor
  Paul Samuelson, committee member
  Robert Solow, committee member
  
  

• PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
  University of California, Berkeley
  1967-1968 Acting Assistant Professor of Economics
  1968-1972 Assistant Professor of Economics
  1972-1977 Associate Professor of Economics
  1977-1991 Member of Graduate Group in Demography
  1983-1998 Member of Graduate Group in Ethnic Studies
  1987-1998 Member of the Extended Graduate Faculty, School of Social Welfare
  1977-1987 Professor of Economics
  1987-1998 Professor of Economics and History
  1988-1998 Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research
  1991-1998 Member of the Department of Demography
  

• VISITING ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
  1985-1986 Visiting Professor of Economics California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  

• FELLOWSHIPS
  1970-1971 Ford Faculty Research Fellow
  1984-1985 Guggenheim Fellow
  

• AFFILIATED ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
  1986-date Research Fellow Agricultural History Center University of California, Davis
  1988-date Directeur d'Etudes Associé Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris
  1988-date Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research
  1994-date Member of the Advisory Council and Research Fellow Center for Economic History and Theory M. V. Lomonossov State University, Moscow
  

• ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
  

• ACADEMIC SENATE COMMITTEES
  University of California

  1980-1981	Member, Committee on Courses of Instruction, Berkeley Division University of California, Berkeley 1979-1983 Member, Graduate Council, Berkeley Division.
  1981-1982	Vice-Chair, Graduate Council, Berkeley Division.
  1981-1982	Berkeley Division Representative, Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs.

  Systemwide

  1982-1983	Chair, Graduate Council, Berkeley Division.
  1983-1985	Member, Committee on Educational Policy, Berkeley Division.
  1986-1987	Member, Council for Special Curricula, Berkeley Division
  1987-1998	Chair and Dean of Special Curricula, Berkeley Division
  1995	Member, Visiting Review Team, School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine.

• RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

  1969-1970	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant GS 2668
  1970-1973	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant GS 3263.
  1974-1977	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SOC 74-09457 Institute of Business and Economic Research University of California, Berkeley Center for Social and Behavioral Science Research, University of California, Riverside.
  1970-1971	Ford Research Fellow, Ford Foundation.
  1977-1978	Ford Faculty Research Professor, Ford Foundation.
  1984-1985	Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley.
  1984-1987	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SES 8411255.
  1990-1994	Principal Investigator, National Institute on Aging Grant AG08131.
  1991-1993	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SES 9024488 Institute of Business and Economic Research University of California, Berkeley.
  1995-1998	Investigator, National Institute on Aging Center Grant Center for Demography and Economics of Aging University of California, Berkeley.
  1996-1967	Investigator, Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration National Academy of Sciences.
  1996-1998	Principal Investigator, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  1998	Investigator, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Center for Historical Statistics University of California, Berkeley.
  1998-date	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant SBR 9730167.
  1998-date	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant.
  1998-date	Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant Center for Social and Economic Policy University of California, Riverside.

• PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
  

• HONORS AND AWARDS

1977	Reckoning with Slavery selected as "Outstanding Academic Book of 1976" in North American History by the editors of Choice.
1978	One Kind of Freedom selected as "Outstanding Academic Book of 1977" in North American History by the editors of Choice .
1979	Class of 1979 Award of Appreciation Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley.
1980	Distinguished Teaching Award Academic Senate University of California, Berkeley.
1986	"Clio" Award For Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics, Cliometric Society.
1986	"Labor of Older Americans," received the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the Outstanding Article in The Journal of Economic History.
1985-1986	Economic History Association.
1987	J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Lecturer Department of Economics Brigham Young University.
1987-1988	Professor of the Year Undergraduate Economics Association University of California, Berkeley.
1989-1990	President Economic History Association.
1994	Medal of Appreciation, International Economic History Association, Awarded in Milan, Italy.
1995	M. V. Lomonossov Medal Moscow State University, Moscow.
1998	Distinguished ORU Director Award Institute of Business and Economic Research University of California, Berkeley.

• MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  Agricultural History Society
  American Economic Association
  American Historical Association
  Cliometric Society
  Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
  Economic History Association
  Economic History Society
  International Association for Feminist Economics
  Population Association of America
  Social Science History Association
  Society of Labor Economists
  

• PUBLICATIONS

This page was last updated on 06/16/99.