Oral history interview with Amy A. Gimbel, 1998
Oral history interview with Amy A. Gimbel, 1998
- Name
- Gimbel, Amy A (Interviewee)
- Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Amy A. Gimbel, 1998
- Abstract
- Childhood: early education in New Jersey; undergraduate study at Vassar College, Douglas College (Rutgers University); Princeton University: Ph.D. sociology, East Asian Studies, 1968-1979; staff member, Committee on Scholarly Communication with People's Republic of China, 1979; director: Population, Resources, and Environment program, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); dire ctor: Sub-Saharan Africa program; participation in Carnegie journal distribution program, AAAS CD-ROM Pilot Project; Arican universities' resource deficiencies; 1998 White House conference on Africa; travel experiences in Asia and Africa; disenchantment with sociology; promotion of scientific development in Africa; reminiscences of colleagues
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- Social scientists; Education, Higher--Africa; Science--Africa; China Foreign relations United States; Gimbel, Amy A; Carnegie Corporation of New York; American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 43 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Researcher
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed by Sharon Zane on October 22, 1998
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright held by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-yczm-2h96