Matilda White Riley

Background

Riley, Matilda White was born on April 19, 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Percival and Mary (Cliff) White.

Education

Bachelor, Radcliffe College, 1931. Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1937. Doctor of Science (honorary), Radcliffe College, 1994.

Doctor of Science, Bowdoin College, 1972. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1997.

Career

Research assistant Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932. Vice president Market Research Company American, 1938-1949. Chief consultant economist War Production Board, 1941.

Research specialist Rutgers University, 1950, professor, 1951-1973, director sociology laboratory, chairman department sociology and anthropology, 1959-1973, emeritus professor, 1973. Daniel B. Fayerweather professor political economic and sociology Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1974-1978, professor emeritus, 1978, honorary research professor. Associate director National Institute on Aging, 1979-1991, senior social scientist, 1991-1998, scientist emeritus, National Institute of Health, since 1998.

Member faculty Harvard University, summer 1955. Staff associate, director aging and society Russell Sage Foundation, 1964-1973, staff sociologist, 1974-1977. Chairman committee on life course Social Science Research Council, 1977-1980.

Senior research associate Center for Social Sciences, Columbia University, 1978-1980. Advisory board Carnegie Aging Society Project, 1985-1987. Member Commission on College Retirement, 1982-1986.

Visiting professor New York University, 1954-1961. Consultant National Council on Aging, Academy Educational Development. Member study group National Institutes of Health, 1971-1979, Social Science Research Council Committee on Middle Years, 1973-1977.

Chairman National Institutes of Health Task Force on Health and Behavior, 1986-1991. Consultant World Health Organization, since 1987. Winkelman lecturer University Michigan, 1984, Selo lecturer University Northern California, 1987, Boettner lecturer American College, 1990, Claude Pepper lecturer Florida State University, 1993, Distinguished lecturer Southwestern Social Sciences Association, 1990, University North Carolina, 1997.

Standing lecturer State University of New York, 1992, Inaugural lecturer Cornell University, 1992. Lecturer International Institute of Sociology, Plenary, 1993, Inter-University Consortium Pol. and Social Research, University Michigan, 1993, Duke University, 1993. Advisory board International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000.

Achievements

• Matilda White Riley has been listed as a noteworthy Sociology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Sociological Traditions From Generation to Generation: Glimpses of the American Experience

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  • Aging From Birth To Death: Volume 2, Sociotemporal Perspectives

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  • The Quality of Aging: Strategies for Interventions (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
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Membership

Former trustee The Big Sisters Association. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section on social and economic science 1977-1978). Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences (senior ), Academy Behavioral Medicine Research, American Sociological Association (executive officer 1949-1960, vice president 1973-1974, president 1986, 91, chairman section on sociology of aging 1989, Distinguished Scholar in Aging 1988, Career award 1992), American Association Public Opinion Research (secretary-treasurer 1949-1951, Distinguished Service award 1983), Eastern Sociological Society (vice president 1968-1969, president 1977-1978, Distinguished Career award 1986), Society for Study Social Biology (board directors 1986-1992), American Academy Arts and Sciences, District of Columbia Sociological Society (co-president 1983-1984), Sociological Research Association, International Organization Study Human Development, American Philosophical Society (membership lecturer 1987), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Associates.

Connections

Married John Winchell Riley, Junior, June 19, 1931. Children: John Winchell III, Lucy Ellen Riley Sallick.

Father:

Percival White

Mother:

Mary (Cliff) White

Spouse:

John Winchell Riley

child:

John Winchell III Riley

child:

Lucy Ellen Riley Sallick Riley