Testimonies

  A-Z links to testimonies written for Marc W. Steinberg (1956-2019), Sydenham C. Parsons Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Read testimonies by friends, colleagues, students and others. [...]

Marc’s Yahrzeit on June 7th falls at the end of each academic year at the university where I am a faculty member. And so I always am remembering him particularly strongly just as I am [...]

It’s been 15 years since you were on my dissertation committee. You came to NYC, helped with the discussion (the last public appearance Chuck Tilly made before he passed away weeks later) and [...]

Brilliant, modest, kind, with a wonderful, understated sense of humor. For many years our offices were on the same corridor in the unreconstructed Wright Hall, and running into him, talking in [...]

I was working on a talk today on learning in social movements and dealing in theory adjacent to Marc’s work on Bakhtin. I first read Marc’s work in 1996 and pretty much nothing I’ve done since [...]

I met Marc in the late 1990s when I was a graduate student. I think the first time might have been on a panel at ASA, and I was starstruck, having read and loved his work up to that point. Marc, [...]

We at Winchester Area Voice of the Faithful were blessed to know Marc through his study of our group, along with Patti Ewick. He became a cherished friend, who will be greatly missed. Our deepest [...]

Marc was my advisor as a sociology major at Smith and a mentor to me for many years following graduation. While at Smith, he encouraged me to make my own path and gave great advice and support, [...]

I fixed computers at Smith College for 31 years. Marc was always one of my favorite people to visit as I made my rounds across campus. Marc had great warmth and openness; he was very “real”. I [...]

When I first came to Smith, I was 46 years old. I was working full time; and, at that time, I had 4 kids in college. I promised my kids (and myself) that I would join them as a college student. [...]