SMITH, Joan 1935-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born May 6, 1935, in Chicago, IL; died of cancer September 10, 2004, in Hartland, VT. Educator, university administrator, and author. Smith was a professor and director of the women's studies program at the University of Vermont. She earned a B.A. in 1967 from Roosevelt University, an M.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1969, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1970. A former faculty member at Queens College of the City University of New York, where she taught from 1979 to 1990, and of Dartmouth College before that, Smith joined the University of Vermont faculty in 1990 as a professor of sociology. She was named interim dean in 1995 and dean in 1996 of the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to directing the university's women's studies program, she founded the African Latino Asian Native-American studies program and established an honors program. As a researcher and author of sociology, she was interested in economic and labor issues. She was the author, coauthor, or editor of several books during her career, including Social Issues and the Social Order: The Contradictions of Capitalism (1981), Racism, Sexism, and the World-System (1988), and Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small-Town America (1999).

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT), September 12, 2004.

Chronicle of Higher Education, September 24, 2004, p. A39.

ONLINE

Philly.com,http://www.philly.com/ (September 11, 2004).

University of Vermont Web site,http://www.uvm.edu/ (November 4, 2004).