| Todd Gitlin AKA Todd Alan Gitlin, Jr. Born: 1943
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Journalism professor, social critic Father: Max M. Gitlin (d.)
Mother: Dorothy Renik
Brother: (1 brother)
Wife: (div.)
Wife: Laurel Ann Cook (m. 3-Nov-1995)
High School: Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (1959)
University: BA Mathematics, Harvard University (1963)
University: MA Political Science, University of Michigan (1966)
University: PhD Sociology, UC Berkeley (1977)
Professor: San Jose State University
Professor: UC Berkeley (1978-94)
Professor: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1994-95)
Professor: New York University (1995-2002)
Professor: Columbia University (2002-)
The New York Observer columnist
The San Francisco Examiner columnist
Dissent editorial board
Mother Jones contributing writer
American Sociological Association
Greenpeace Board of Directors
MoveOn.org
Roosevelt Institution Advisory Board
Students for a Democratic Society President 1963-64
Phi Beta Kappa Society
MacArthur Fellowship (1988-89)
Lithuanian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Marijuana
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Weather Underground (17-Nov-2002) Himself
Official Website:
http://www.toddgitlin.net/
Author of books:
Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970, nonfiction, with Nancy Hollander)
Busy Being Born (1974, poetry)
The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1980, nonfiction)
Inside Prime Time (1983, nonfiction)
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987, nonfiction)
The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992, novel)
The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995, nonfiction)
Sacrifice (1999, novel)
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002, nonfiction)
Letters To a Young Activist (2003, nonfiction)
The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006, nonfiction)
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