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
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
Date
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.