News & Events 2004-2005
Skeptics Speaker Examines Sports and Society
Richard Zamoff, associate professor of sociology, spoke at the Society of Skeptics on October 19. According to Dr. Marty Miller, director of the Skeptics series, Dr. Zamoff spoke eloquently about baseball player Jackie Robinson’s landmark integration of baseball and his post-athletic career fighting for civil rights on any number of fronts.
Dr. Zamoff has taught at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., since 1982. His prior professional engagements include service as a senior research associate at The Urban Institute, senior scientist at the National Institute for Advanced Studies, senior staff associate at the Center for Urban Education, and associate field manager at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. He also taught at Trinity College, Queens College of the City University of New York, and Columbia College.
Dr. Zamoff’s areas of specialization include educational sociology, program evaluation, contemporary social problems, and the relationship between sport and society. Since 1996, he has served as director of the Jackie Robinson Project at The George Washington University and, since 1999, as faculty advisor to the Jackie Robinson Society. He teaches a “Sociology of Sports” class every spring, as well as a class entitled, “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream” every fall.
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