NOVEMBER 25, 1998- RIDER SOCIOLOGIST GIVES PRESENTATION AT NORWAY CONFERENCE
LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Dr. Ava Baron of Princeton Junction, NJ, professor of sociology at Rider University, recently gave an invited presentation at a two-day conference (November 12-13) in Bergen, Norway on new forms of working life.
The Research Board of Culture and Society of the Norwegian Research Council launched a research program for women's and gender research in 1996 that will continue through the year 2001.
Under this program, the Institute for Social Research organized the conference that focused on gender issues related to work.
The conference organizers invited Dr. Baron because they felt her work "within this area was distinguished and influential." They particularly liked her book on typographers, Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor and were interested in the book Baron is currently writing, Men's Work: Masculinity and the Woman Question in the Printing Industry, 1830-1920s. She was invited to address the conference during a session on Cultural Perspectives on Gender and Work.
A member of Rider's sociology faculty since 1976, Dr. Baron has received acclaim on both the national and international levels for her scholarly research.
In 1993-94 she was selected as a member and designated a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was the first Rider faculty member to receive this honor. She joined 15 other scholars from across the world at the institute's School of Social Science to examine the question of social transition. Her project was to explore the role of gender in social transition, specifically masculinity in work settings.
Director of Rider's law and justice program, Dr. Baron also specializes in the teaching of sociology of law and criminal justice. She holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from New York University and a B.A. degree from Brooklyn College.
Before coming to Rider, she taught at Washington Square College and Queens College of the State University of New York and served as a researcher at the Vera Institute of Justice.
