Biography
Carolyn Howe is Associate Professor Emerita at the College, previously Associate Professor of Sociology, with a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of Political Ideology and Class Formation (Praeger, 1992) and numerous articles on social movements and social change, with a focus on race, class and gender dynamics of social movements. She teaches courses on The Sociological Perspective, Women and Society, Social Movements, Latinos in the U.S., Social Change in Latin America and a seminar on Sociology of Education.
Professor Howe is currently President of the Worcester Women's History Project, a Worcester-area, non-profit, community organization whose mission it is to do research and raise awareness of the important role the city of Worcester and women and men in Worcester played in the history of the women's rights movement and the struggles for racial, class and gender equality. She maintains an involvement in the Worcester community, especially in areas related to improving the quality of public education.