Name
Kassof, Allen (Interviewee)
Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Allen Kassof, 1999
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Allen Kassof : oral history, 1999
Abstract
Childhood: New York City, New Jersey; Rutgers University: B.A., sociology, 1948-1952; Harvard University: M.A., Soviet Union studies, Ph.D., sociology, 1952-1957; faculty positions, sociology: Smith College, 1957-1960, Princeton University, 1961-1973; formation of International Research and Exchange Board, 1968: United States/Eastern European, Soviet relations, promotion of scholarship exchange pr ograms, primary funding from Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, changes in secondary funders; differences among private American philanthropies; travel to Eastern Europe, Soviet Union; development of technology in Baltic States; philosophy of reasons for ethnic conflict; reminiscences of colleagues
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Subjects
Sociologists; Exchange of persons programs; Endowments; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States; Kassof, Allen; Carnegie Corporation of New York
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1999
Physical Description
50 pages
Note (Biographical)
Sociologist
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 March 10, 1999
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
7585694
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ar2s-ra46
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.