Background
Sanders, Irwin Taylor was born on January 17, 1909 in Millersburg, Kentucky, United States. Son of Robert Stuart and Lucy (Taylor) Sanders.
Sanders, Irwin Taylor was born on January 17, 1909 in Millersburg, Kentucky, United States. Son of Robert Stuart and Lucy (Taylor) Sanders.
Student, Tennessee Military Institute, 1920-1925; Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Lee University, 1929; student, Theological Seminary, Princeton, 1932-1933; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1938; D.Pedagogy (honorary), Rhode Island College, 1981; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Washington and Lee University, 1981.
Instructor, American College, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1929-1932;
dean, American College, 1934-1937;
assistant professor sociology, Alabama College, 1938-1940;
successively assistant professor, associate professor, professor, head department sociology, distinguished university professor, U. Kentucky, 1940-1956;
lecturer sociology, Harvard School Public Health, 1958-1962;
department chairman sociology and anthropology, Boston University, 1960-1963, 69-72;
professor sociology, Boston University, 1972-1977;
University lecturer, Boston University, 1973-1974;
also co-director community sociology training program, Boston University. Research director Associates International Research, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956-1960. Associate director International Training and Research Program, Ford Foundation, 1962-1966.
Vice president Edition and World Affairs, 1967-1969. Social science analyst Bureau Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, summer 1943. Senior social scientist Bureau Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture (Office Foreign Agricultural Relations), 1943.
Social science Bureau Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture (Extension Service), summer 1944. Agricultural attaché American Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1945-1946. Research associate Harvard, 1952-1953.
Consultant rural welfare division Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations).
Board directors American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sofia American Schools, Inc., Association for Study Southeastern Europe, Bucharest, Rumania. Member corporation board Massachusetts Half-Way Houses, Inc., since 1988. Member American Sociological Society (distinguished community section award 1983), Eastern Sociological Society, Southern Sociological Society (president 1955-1956), Rural Sociological Society (president 1956-1957, Distinguished Rural Sociologist 1993), New England Sociological Association (Apple award 1993), American Association Advancement Slavic Studies, Bulgarian-American Studies Association (honorary president), Modern Greek Studies Association (council), American Association for Southeast European Studies (president 1980), Société European de Culture (Venice), Rumanian Studies Society (council), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), American Association for Promotion Bulgarian Culture (honorary president), Cornell Club (New York ), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Phi Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, Delta Upsilon.
Married Margaret Rydberg, June 23, 1934 (deceased February 1997). Children: Gerda S. (Groff), Robert Stuart (deceased September 1998). Married Mary Ann Hawkes, November 1, 1997.