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the Rural Sociological Society and rural sociology more accessible.

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Interviews with Rural Sociologists

The following is a list of interviews with rural sociologists and others associated with

the Rural Sociological Society. 

The entries are presented in no particular order.  Most often, it is the order in which they were found.

This list is a continual work in progress.  If you know of other interviews with rural sociologists (even if they

are not available on the internet), please email the RSS Historian.

See also:

• Internet Locations of Archives of Rural Sociologists

• Rural Sociology's History Online

• Resources related to the history of rural sociology and the Rural Sociological Society

                                                                                Alphabetical list

Oral History Interview with Arthur Raper, January 30, 1974.

Interview B-0009-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/B-0009-2/menu.html

Interview with Glenn Fuguitt on the history of the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin.

http://www.drs.wisc.edu/history/index.php

Oral History Interview with Douglas Ensminger

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/esmingr.htm

PAA Oral History Project (Population Association of America)

Interviews with Presidents of the PAA from 1947 to 1960

http://geography.sdsu.edu/Research/Projects/PAA/oralhistory/oralhistory.html

PAA Oral History Project (Population Association of America)

Interviews with Presidents of the PAA from 1947 to 1960

http://geography.sdsu.edu/Research/Projects/PAA/oralhistory/oralhistory.html

Julian Samora Research Center.  Michigan State University

LA FRONTERA and its People: The Early Development of Border and Mexican-American Studies

(Interviews with Dr. Charles Loomis, Dr. Julian Samora and Dr. Gilbert Cárdenas) Barbara Driscoll.  1993.

http://jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/wps/wp17abs.html

http://jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/wps/wp17.pdf

Bertrand, Alvin Lee, 1918-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1995.

5 sound cassettes (7.5 hours), Transcript (276 p.). Location: L:4700.0524. LSU alumnus and Boyd professor of Sociology/Rural Sociology. Bertrand discusses growing up in rural La. and the French language and Cajun culture. He also discusses rural sociology and La. agriculture. He describes the LSU campus in 1936 and details his long association with LSU and the Sociology Department. For further information see online catalog.

Mss. 4700.0524.

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection

Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library

Louisiana State University

https://lsu.louislibraries.org:5203/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/123/

Abstracts of the tapes

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/abstracts/university/bertrand.htm

"Rural Sociology."  Essays on the College of Agriculture's History.  Iowa State University.

http://www.ag.iastate.edu/coa150/Goudy.php

Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History

University of Kentucky Libraries

http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/people/interviews-with/Howard-W_-Beers

Interview with Howard W. Beers, June 21st, 1972

http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/18216

 

Interview with Howard W. Beers, February 18th, 1985

http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/17880

 

Interview with Howard W. Beers, May 16th, 1985

http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/17921

 

Interview with Howard W. Beers, September 5th, 1997

http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/23388

 

 

Please send suggestions, ideas, or changes to:

Julie N. Zimmerman

RSS Historian

Associate Professor, Rural Sociology

Dept. of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky

jzimm@email.uky.edu

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