Return to Previous Press Release
Enter your name and a friend's email address in the fields below and click "Submit" to email this Press Release to a friend.
Your message will look like this:
[YOUR NAME HERE] thought you might be interested in this story from the University of Rochester.
MEDIA CONTACT: Ted Brown (585) 275-2051
April 22, 2002
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in the Case Method Room (1-9576) of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
Frances Fox Piven, an internationally known scholar, author, and activist, will discuss "The Rich, The Poor, and American Politics" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in the Case Method Room (1-9576) at the University of Rochester's School of Medicine and Dentistry.
One of the foremost authorities on politics and poverty in the United States, Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
She is also the author of a number of books dealing with the development of the welfare state, political movements, and urban politics. Her book Regulating the Poor, co-authored with Richard Cloward, is considered a landmark historical and theoretical analysis of the role of welfare policy. Her major publications also include Poor People's Movements, The New Class War, The Breaking of the American Social Compact, and Why American's Still Don't Vote, and Politicians Like it That Way.
During the 1960s, Pivens was actively involved in the welfare rights movement and in 1983 was a founder of Human SERVE, an organization that promoted coordinating voter registration with driver's license applications. The approach was incorporated in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, popularly known as the "motor voter bill."
Pivens is a recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize for "published work which evidences social vision and commitment to social justice." She is a winner of the C. Wrights Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the President's Award of the American Public Health Association. In 2000 she was honored with the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.
Piven's talk is sponsored by the Departments of Community and Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine and by the Departments of History and of Political Science at the College. It is free and open to the public. For information, call (585) 275-2052.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
PR 584, MS 0