Marc has always been a generous colleague and a brilliant scholar. I had read his work before meeting him, and was so impressed with his intellectual acuity. What a pleasure to realize that this was combined with a truly sweet and generous nature. I benefited enormously from engaging with Marc. I had the good fortune of being an on-again off-again member of the social movements group located at Smith, and I always learned from his interpretations and readings of the works we read together. His comments on my own work were tremendously helpful. We also were in contact over various students, and his enormous commitment to students was so lovely to witness. There are no words to express my sorrow, to all of those who were lucky enough to be closer to Marc than I am. But I am grateful that I had the opportunity to learn from him, both how to be a good sociologist and how to be a good person.
