HIGGINBOTHAM, Elizabeth 1948-

PERSONAL: Born May 21, 1948 in New York, NY. Education: City College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1971; Brandeis University, M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1980.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, 322 Smith Hall, Newark, DE 19716. E-mail—ehiggin@udel.edu.

CAREER: Division of Urban Planning, Columbia University, urban sociologist; University of Delaware, Newark, professor of sociology.

AWARDS, HONORS: American Sociological Association Distinguished Contributions to Teaching award, 1993; American Sociological Association Jessie Bernard award, 1993; Women's Foundation of Greater Memphis Mertie Buckman mentor award, 1997; Girls Incorporated of Memphis She Knows Where She's Going award, 1998; Eastern Sociological Society Robin M. Williams Jr. distinguished lecturer, 2003-04.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Andrea Timberlake, Lynn Weber Cannon, and Rebecca F. Guy) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, 1975-1988, Center for Research on Women, 1988.

(Editor, with Mary Romero) Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class, Sage (Thousand Oaks, CA), 1997.

Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2001.

Also author of numerous articles in academic journals.

SIDELIGHTS: Elizabeth Higginbotham is a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware. Higginbotham coedited Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class with Mary Romero as part of the "Women and Work: A Research and Policy" series. The book collects eleven articles written by different contributors in which are analyzed issues involving race, ethnic background, and class as they affect women in both volunteer and paid jobs. "Women and Work demonstrates clearly the importance of race, ethnicity, and class in shaping women's work," concluded Catherine White Berheide in a review for Contemporary Sociology.

Higginbotham's To Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration is a study that follows the lives of fifty-six black, working-or middle-class women who attended colleges in the same northeastern town between 1968 and 1970. During the 1960s colleges began opening their doors to black students. Higginbotham analyzes how the women's educational experiences differed because of race, gender, and class. She also discusses how differing backgrounds, family beliefs in education, and individual ideals and goals helped or hindered these women in their quest for a college education.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Libraries, February, 1989, review of Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, 1975-1988, p. 153.

Contemporary Sociology, November, 2000, Catherine White Berheide, review of Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class p. 835.

Journal of Economic Literature, March, 1998, review of Women and Work, pp. 342-343.

Ms., June, 1981, Lisa Cronin Wohl, "Holding Our Own against a Conservative Tide," pp. 50-53, 86, 89.

NWSA Journal, summer, 1998, Stella Anderson, review of Women and Work, p. 178.

Sex Roles, August, 1998, Cynthia E. Miree and Irene H. Frieze, "Women, Ethnicity, and the Workplace," p. 327.

Sociology, November, 1998, Harriet Bradley, review of Women and Work, p. 869.

Women's Review of Books, June, 2002, Dale Edwyna Smith, "In Uncharted Waters," pp. 20-21.

ONLINE

University of Delaware Web site,http://udel.edu/ (September 3, 2002), "Professor Elizabeth Higginbotham."

University of North Carolina Press Web site,http://uncpress.unc.edu/ (September 3, 2002).