Ada Finifter
Ada W. Finifter | |
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| Born | June 6, 1938[1] |
| Died | October 29, 2011 (aged 73)[1] |
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| Doctoral advisor | J. Austin Ranney[1] |
Ada Weintraub Finifter (June 6, 1938—October 29, 2011) was an American political scientist. She specialized in American public opinion and voting behavior.
Education and academic positions
[edit | edit source]Finifter was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1938.[1] Finifter graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science in 1959, and then earned an MA at the University of Michigan.[1]
Finifter then joined the political science faculty at Andrés Bello Catholic University as a member of the Peace Corps, working there for one year before returning to the United States and beginning a political science PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she studied with J. Austin Ranney, obtaining her PhD in 1967.[1] Finifter was hired as a political science professor at Michigan State University, becoming an associate professor in 1972 and a professor in 1981.[1] In 1978, Finifter was a visiting scholar at the Australian National University.[2]
Research
[edit | edit source]Finifter wrote several books, one of the most notable[1] being Alienation and the Social System (1972).[3] She also wrote an early text on personal computer use, Using the IBM Personal Computer: EasyWriter (1984). She edited several books as well, including The State of the Discipline (1983).[4]
Finifter was the president of the Midwest Political Science Association in the year 1986–87.[5] She was the editor of the American Political Science Review from March 1996 until December 2001.[6][7]
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- 1938 births
- 2011 deaths
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Academics from New York (state)
- American women academics
- American women political scientists
- American political scientists
- 20th-century American women writers
- University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
- Brooklyn College alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Michigan State University faculty
- Academic staff of Andrés Bello Catholic University
- 21st-century American women