Jeanne Clare Ridley

Background

Ridley, Jeanne Clare was born on August 28, 1925 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Edward Walter and Margaret Helen (Cary) Clare.

Education

Bachelor in Economics, University Michigan, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University Michigan, 1958. Master of Arts in Sociology, Columbia University, 1951.

Career

Interviewer Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1948-1949, research assistant, 1949-1952. Teaching fellow department sociology University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1953-1954, assistant study director Survey Research Center, 1955-1956. Ford Foundation teaching intern department sociology Brown University, Providence, 1956-1957.

Instructor, assistant professor department sociology and anthropology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1957-1963. Associate professor department sociology and biostatistics Graduate School Public Health, University Pittsburgh, 1963-1967. Associate professor division biostatistics, associate professor socio-medical science School Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, 1967-1972.

Professor department demography, department sociology, senior research scholar Georgetown University, Washington, 1972-1990, professor emeritus, research professor demography, senior research scholar, 1990—2007. Visiting professor Centro Latino-Americano de Demografia, Santiago, Chile, 1971, Research School Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1983. Consultant Davidson County, Tennessee Planning Commission, 1960-1962.

Member panel on population policies and effects of social action on population changes Center Population Research, National Institutes of Health, 1968-1971. Member advisory panel for sociology division social science National Science Foundation, 1975-1977. Associate Columbia University Seminar on Population and Social Change, since 1967.

Member population research committee National Institutes of Health, 1976-1979.

Achievements

• Jeanne Clare Ridley has been listed as a noteworthy demography educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member The Census Tract Committee, Nashville, 1957-1962. Fellow American Statistical Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association (chair statistical section 1985-1986), American Association of University Professors, Am Sociological Association, Society Human Biology, Sociological Research Association, District of Columbia Sociological Society, Eastern Sociological Society, Union International pour l'Etude Scientifique de la Population, Biosocial Society, Washington Statistical Association, American Statistical Association (publications officer social statistics section 1982-1983), American Population Association (ad hoc committee on monitoring federal activities affecting demography 1978-1979, chair committee on population statistics 1975-1979).

Connections

Married Christy Ridley, July 27, 1957.

Father:

Edward Walter Clare

Mother:

Margaret Helen (Cary) Clare

Spouse:

Christy Ridley