Zweigenhaft, Richard L. 1945-

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ZWEIGENHAFT, Richard L. 1945-

PERSONAL: Born April 22, 1945, in Washington, DC; son of Abraham B. and Irene (Stein) Zweigenhaft; married Lisa Young, June 14, 1974. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1967; Columbia University, M.A., 1968; University of California—Santz Cruz, Ph.D., 1974.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Psychology, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410.

CAREER: Corning Community College, Corning, NY, instructor in psychology and sociology, 1968-70; Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, assistant professor, 1974-77, associate professor, 1978-83, professor, 1984-93, Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology, 1993—.


MEMBER: Phi Beta Kappa.


WRITINGS:

(With G. W. Domhoff) Jews in the Protestant Establishment, Praeger (New York, NY), 1982.

Who Gets to the Top? Executive Suite Discrimination in the Eighties, Institute of Human Relations (New York, NY), 1984.

(With G. W. Domhoff) Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1991.

(With G. W. Domhoff) Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top?, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1998.

(With G. W. Domhoff) Blacks in the White Elite: Will the Progress Continue?, Rowman & Littlefield (Boulder, CO), 2003.


Contributor to periodicals.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Social Policy, October, 2000, Barbara Bagilhole, review of Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top?, p. 711.

Labour/Le Travail, spring, 2001, Alvin Finkel, review of Diversity in the Power Elite, p. 273.