About Clarice.....
Clarice Stasz grew up in Audubon, New Jersey , a small town with easy access to Philadelphia. Her father was an audio engineer on top secret projects at RCA, while her mother was a full-time charity volunteer and political activist in the Republican party. She graduated from Douglass College when it was still all-women. She earned her M.A. at University of Wisconsin, and her Ph.D. at Rutgers--the State University. A year of post-doctoral work at Brown University in African American history furthered her studies of inequality.
At Johns Hopkins University she was a director/researcher at the Center for the Study of Schools. There she oversaw projects involving games and simulation in the K-12 classroom. With Michael Inbar she created the journal Simulation and Games and with him co-authored Simulation and Gaming in Social Science. She wrote and edited Simulation and Gaming for Social Studies Teachers with game developer Samuel Livingston. The personal computer had yet to be invented, so these were board games. We were ahead of the trend, in theory.
She joined a new institution, Sonoma State College in California, which was interested in her teaching approach based upon activity. The women's movement was also underway, which led her with other women faculty to create curricula inclusive of females. As a result Stasz wrote the first textbooks for courses then called "Sex Roles": Sexism: Scientific Debates and Female and Male: Socialization, Social Roles, and Social Structure. The latter book went into several editions.
She became a photographer, taught the use of photography for sociology, and a leader in the Visual Sociology movement. As a result of her Brown University research, she published The American Nightmare: Why Inequality Persists. Later she co-authored a textbook with Nanette Davis, The Social Control of Deviance, which conflicted with the standard interpretations by demonstrating how power sources, such governments and professions, gain by facilitating deviant behavior.
Although Stasz had never heard of Jack London, she visited the historic park nearby in the early 1970s and became fascinated by Charmian Kittredge London, his second wife. This led to American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London, as well as Jack London's Women. She has spoken on and written many articles on London from a historical perspective, and thus added to literary-based scholarship.
She turned these research skills toward her interest in women's history. The result was two multi-generational accounts: The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy and The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service. She became Professor of History and later Chair of what is now Sonoma State University. In that role, she taught specialized courses in U.S. history, along with graduate courses in research and writing.
During her career, Stasz has appeared on various media to report on her research. These include NPR, BBC radio, and documentaries shown on PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. Much of her research was supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the California State University System.
Stasz's current writing project is a memoir based upon her ancestral multi-generational history, It begins with her Czech and Hungarian ancestors, all of whom settled in Cleveland, Ohio. She reveals how family culture from a hundred years earlier influenced her birth family in South Jersey. She is also editing and placing educational materials from Mother Lode Musical Theatre into publication. She participates in the Sonoma-Tokaj sister city program.
She is a multi-instrumentalist (singer, flute, percussion, bass, ukelele, piano) who performs in a variety of genres, and as a song writer for underground acoustic traveling singers.
At Johns Hopkins University she was a director/researcher at the Center for the Study of Schools. There she oversaw projects involving games and simulation in the K-12 classroom. With Michael Inbar she created the journal Simulation and Games and with him co-authored Simulation and Gaming in Social Science. She wrote and edited Simulation and Gaming for Social Studies Teachers with game developer Samuel Livingston. The personal computer had yet to be invented, so these were board games. We were ahead of the trend, in theory.
She joined a new institution, Sonoma State College in California, which was interested in her teaching approach based upon activity. The women's movement was also underway, which led her with other women faculty to create curricula inclusive of females. As a result Stasz wrote the first textbooks for courses then called "Sex Roles": Sexism: Scientific Debates and Female and Male: Socialization, Social Roles, and Social Structure. The latter book went into several editions.
She became a photographer, taught the use of photography for sociology, and a leader in the Visual Sociology movement. As a result of her Brown University research, she published The American Nightmare: Why Inequality Persists. Later she co-authored a textbook with Nanette Davis, The Social Control of Deviance, which conflicted with the standard interpretations by demonstrating how power sources, such governments and professions, gain by facilitating deviant behavior.
Although Stasz had never heard of Jack London, she visited the historic park nearby in the early 1970s and became fascinated by Charmian Kittredge London, his second wife. This led to American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London, as well as Jack London's Women. She has spoken on and written many articles on London from a historical perspective, and thus added to literary-based scholarship.
She turned these research skills toward her interest in women's history. The result was two multi-generational accounts: The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy and The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service. She became Professor of History and later Chair of what is now Sonoma State University. In that role, she taught specialized courses in U.S. history, along with graduate courses in research and writing.
During her career, Stasz has appeared on various media to report on her research. These include NPR, BBC radio, and documentaries shown on PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. Much of her research was supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, along with the California State University System.
Stasz's current writing project is a memoir based upon her ancestral multi-generational history, It begins with her Czech and Hungarian ancestors, all of whom settled in Cleveland, Ohio. She reveals how family culture from a hundred years earlier influenced her birth family in South Jersey. She is also editing and placing educational materials from Mother Lode Musical Theatre into publication. She participates in the Sonoma-Tokaj sister city program.
She is a multi-instrumentalist (singer, flute, percussion, bass, ukelele, piano) who performs in a variety of genres, and as a song writer for underground acoustic traveling singers.
