Margaret L. Andersen

Margaret L. Andersen (raised in Oakland, California; Rome, Georgia; and Boston, Massachusetts) is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her B.A. from Georgia State University. Her most recent book, co-edited with Maxine Baca Zinn, is Moving from the Margins: Life Histories and Transforming the Study of Racism (Stanford University Press). She is also the author of Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation, as well as Race in Society: The Enduring American Dilemma; Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender (11th Ed., Pearson); the best-selling Cengage text, Race, Class, and Gender: Intersections and Inequalities, 11th ed. (with Patricia Hill Collins); Sociology: The Essentials (with Howard F. Taylor (Cengage), among others. She is also the author of On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection and Living Art: The Life of Paul R. Jones, African American Art Collector. She has served as Vice President of the American Sociological Association from which she has also received the prestigious Jessie Bernard Award. She is the Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society, from which she received the ESS Merit Award for career accomplishments. She has also been awarded the SWS Feminist Lecturer Award for work improving the status of women in society. She serves as on the National Advisory Board (and is past Chair) for Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She has served as the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, and was the founder of UD's President's Diversity Initiative at the University of Delaware where she won two Excellence in Teaching Awards. She lives in Elkton and Oxford, Maryland with her husband Richard Rosenfeld.