Word: professor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Author of New York Times best seller The Overspent American, Schor is known to most undergraduates as the spirited professor of "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" a.k.a., Women's Studies 132. In that class, Schor argues that shopping has been trivialized in this country mainly because of a gender breakdown in which people associate consumption with females and production with males. Contending that the acts of purchasing and shopping are actually a very important component of American society, Schor then critiques the adverse affects of consumerism. For 10 years Schor has analyzed the relationship between...
...enormous computer monitors buzz from the desk of Professor Jonathan Zittrain, executive director for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1995, he now leads a law school seminar on "Internet and Society: Technologies and Politics of Control." In his class, as in his personal research, Zittrain studies the ways in which official regulation of the Internet might actually liberate net users more than the current lack of regulation...
...plays a 300-song MP-3 shuffle in his Pound Hall office, Professor Zittrain swivels around in his chair and confesses: "I'm definitely a little wired...