Background
Dornbusch, Sanford Maurice was born on June 5, 1926 in New York City. Son of Meyer and Gertrude (Weisel) Dornbusch.
Dornbusch, Sanford Maurice was born on June 5, 1926 in New York City. Son of Meyer and Gertrude (Weisel) Dornbusch.
Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1948; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1952.
Instructor sociology, Syracuse University, 1948-1949;
Instructor sociology, University of Illinois, 1950-1951;
Instructor sociology, Indiana U., 1950-1952;
research associate, University of Chicago, 1951-1952;
assistant professor, U. Washington, 1952-1954;
associate professor, U. Washington, 1958-1959;
assistant professor, Harvard, 1955-1958;
head department sociology, Stanford University, 1959-1964;
professor, Stanford University, since 1959;
Reed-Hodgson professor human biology, Stanford University, since 1978;
professor education, Stanford University, since 1977;
associate dean School Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 1961-1962;
director freshman seminars, Stanford University, 1967-1969;
chairman senate academic council, Stanford University, 1970-1971;
research associate Center for Research and Development in Teaching, Stanford University, 1968-1978;
deputy director Stanford Center for the Study of Families, Children and Youth, Stanford University, 1980-1987;
director, Stanford University, 1987-1991;
director children and society curriculum, Stanford University, since 1991;
chairman advisory board, Stanford University, 1991-1995. Ford visiting professor sociology U. Ibadan, Nigeria, 1966-1967. Consultant Social Science Research Council.
Member behavioral science fellowship panel National Institutes of Health, 1961-1967. Editorial consultant Sociometry, 1957-1960, Review Religious Research, 1980-1984, Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, since 1982. Advisor to Office Ednl.
Research and Improvement unites states department Education, since 1987. Member panel on high risk youth Commision on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, since 1989.
Chairman regional selection committee Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1963-1966. Founder Stanford-Midpeninsula Urban Coalition, 1968. Member board maternal, child and family health National Research Council.
Member President's Commission on Mental Health, Task Panel on Community Support Systems, 1977-1978. Member evaluation task force National Institute Child Health and Human Development, 1977-1979, member mental retardation research committee, 1977-1981. Member national advisory panel Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning, 1990-1994.
Board directors Urban Arts Foundation Served as private Army of the United States, 1943-1944. With United States Coast Guard, 1944-1945. With United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946.
Fellow American Sociological Association (chairman methodology section, social psychology section, sociology of education section). Member American Association of University Professors (chapter president 1968-1969), Pacific Sociological Association (president 1963-1964), International Organization for Study of Human Development (council 1970-1984), Society for Research in Child Development, Society for Research on Adolescence (president 1992-1994), Educational Press Association (Distinguished Achievement award 1989).
Married Barbara Anne Farnham, February 28, 1950. Children: Jeffrey Neil, Steven Samuel.