Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last October, Fischer says, Skocpol broke her promise and said that she would not be coming to Berkeley after...
Claude S. Fischer, chairman of the sociology department at the University of California at Berkeley, says that Skocpol actually committed to coming to Berkeley, and said that she would begin teaching as of this spring...
...letter to his department explaining Skocpol's act, Fischer wrote, "I am angered and sorry to report to you that this morning I received a call from Theda Skocpol saying that she will not be coming to Berkeley after all--neither in the long term nor even for the spring. I consider this a grossly unprofessional and unethical...
Skocpol says that she decided to turn down Berkeley for a variety of personal reasons, including the fact that she has a bad back, and that the job possibilities in California for her husband, physicist William Skocpol, were not promising...
Sorenson says he did not think that the incident at Berkeley would affect Skocpol's ability to function at Harvard. "I don't think it will have any impact on her relationships with colleagues here," he says...