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Interview with Susan Davis

Davis, Susan (2013) Interview with Susan Davis. [Oral History] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:CaltechOH:OH_Davis_S

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Abstract

Interview in three sessions with Susan Davis, division administrator for Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) from 1981 to 2012. Ms. Davis briefly recaps her youth and education in New England, her work with economists at the University of Rochester, and her marriage to Caltech economist Lance Davis before moving into a discussion of her thirty-five years with Caltech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), including more than three decades as division administrator. She talks about the growth of the division’s undergraduate and graduate programs in the social sciences, the reactions this inspired within the division and across the Caltech campus, and discusses the relationship between social scientists and humanists within the division and with Caltech’s physical scientists. She recounts her years working with division chairs R. Huttenback, R. Noll, D. Grether, J. Ledyard, J. Ensminger, and J. Katz and with numerous HSS personalities, and discusses the evolution and growth of HSS’s academic programs over nearly four decades. She also talks about her service on Caltech staff committees and offers her personal perspective on changes in the campus environment and working conditions for staff, particularly staff women, over her years at Caltech.


Item Type:Oral History
Keywords:Humanities and Social Sciences; administration; students.
Record Number:CaltechOH:CaltechOH:OH_Davis_S
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:CaltechOH:OH_Davis_S
Official Citation:Davis, Susan. Interview by Heidi Aspaturian. Pasadena, California, February 14, 26, and March 8, 2013. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives. Retrieved [supply date of retrieval] from the World Wide Web: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Davis_S
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Subjects:Subjects > Administration
Subjects > Humanities
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Subjects > Social Sciences
ID Code:233
Collection:CaltechOralHistories
Deposited By: Oral Histories Administrator
Deposited On:15 May 2015 17:28
Last Modified:04 Oct 2019 15:24

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