Roger Sanjek
Roger Sanjek is an American anthropologist. He is a former professor of anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Sanjek was born to Russell Sanjek, a longtime executive with Broadcast Music, Inc and a historian of the American music industry.[3][4]
He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.[5] He taught anthropology from 1972 to 2008 at Queens College.[6] His fieldwork has taken him to Brazil, Ghana, and most recently, ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhoods in the United States such as Elmhurst, Queens and Corona, Queens, resulting in the book The Future of Us All (1998),[7] which won the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research "to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology."[8][9]
Sanjek received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 in the "Anthropology and Cultural Studies" category.[1]
His brother, David Sanjek, was a musicologist and professor of popular music at the University of Salford.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Roger Sanjek". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ Sanjek, Roger (1993). "Anthropology's Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers". Anthropology Today. 9 (2): 13–18. doi:10.2307/2783170. ISSN 0268-540X. JSTOR 2783170.
- ^ "Russell Sanjek | 64 min. - OH512". Country Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Carl Haverlin & Russell Sanjek | - OHC390". Country Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "List of Contributors". Mutuality. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014-11-11. pp. 369–374. doi:10.9783/9780812290318.369. ISBN 978-0-8122-9031-8.
- ^ "September 15, 2015- Roger Sanjek, Queens College | Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Product Details". Cornell University Press. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "News and Events, The City University of New York". www1.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "J.I. Staley Prize | School for Advanced Research". Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "IASPM » Blog Archive » David Sanjek (1952-2011)". www.iaspm.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ^ "Noted Musicologist David Sanjek Dead at 59". BMI.com. 2011-12-05. Retrieved 2022-06-09.