Background

Modell, John was born on June 3, 1941 in New York City. Son of Walter and Merriam (Levant) Modell.

Education

AB, Columbia University, 1962; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1969; postgraduate (Social Science Research Council research training fellow), University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1970.

Career

Research assistant, Bureau Applied Social Research, Columbia University, 1962-1965; lecturer, Kingsborough Community College, 1965-1966; director research, Japanese American Research Project, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966-1969; assistant professor of history, University of Minnesota, 1969-1972; associate professor, University of Minnesota, 1972-1977; professor, University of Minnesota, 1977-1983; professor, Carnegie Mellon U., 1983-1999; acting dean College Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon U., 1985-1987; professor education and human development, Brown U., Providence, Rhode Island, since 1999. Cardozo visiting professor of history Yale University, 1991. Adjunct Professor human development Brown U., since 1996.

Research associate Philadelphia Social History Project, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1985. Member of advisory, planning committee Center for Coordination of Study of Social Indicators, Social Science Research Council, 1980-1985. Member committee child development research public policy National Research Council, 1981-1986.

Member county Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1982-1986. Advising committee Henry Murray Ctr.for Research in Human Lives, Radcliffe College. Member MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood.

Member Network Program on Aging and Social Change, National Institute Aging.

Achievements

• John Modell has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp, the Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi: 1st (First) Edition

    ("How can we fight fascism," wrote Charles Kikuchi in June...)

  • Recent social trends in the United States, 1960-1990 (Comparative charting of social change)

    (Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960 - 1990, h...)

  • The Kikuchi Diary : Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp : The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi

    (I bought this book for a class project and never used it....)

  • Recent Social Trends in the United States: 1960-1990 (Comparative Charting of Social Change in Contemporary Society)

    (United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.)

  • The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900-1942

    (Has mylar cover, no markings in book. Cover has a 1/4 inc...)

  • The Kikuchi Diary Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp : The Tanforan J

Connections

Married Judith Schachter, June 2, 1963 (divorced ). Children: Jennifer, Matthew Thelonious. Married Cynthia Garcia College, June 25, 2000.

Father:

Walter Modell

Mother:

Merriam (Levant) Modell

Spouse:

Cynthia Garcia College

Spouse:

Judith Schachter

child:

Jennifer Modell

child:

Matthew Thelonious Modell