Pamela A Roby

B.A., University of Denver M.A., Syracuse University Ph.D., New York University Pamela Roby has published four books and dozens of articles on infant and early childhood development policies, social and economic inequalities, higher education, trade union leadership, and women and work. Dr. Roby has served as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1997-98), vice-president of the Pacific Sociological Association (1996-97), president of Sociologists for Women in Society (1978-80), and chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Sex and Gender, as well as vice-chair of the National Commission on Working Women. She has also served as an elected member of the Research Council of the International Sociological Association, the Executive Council of the American Sociological Association, and the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Vocational Education Research and Development, and the National Academy of Sciences/Ford Foundation Sociology Dissertation and Post-doctoral Fellowship Review Committee (2007-2011). At UCSC, Professor Roby has directed the Sociology Doctoral Program (1988-91, 2007), and chaired the Department of Sociology (1998-2001). She also chaired the Academic Senate's Graduate Council (1990-91) and the Senate's Committee on Academic Personnel (1995-96). Nationally, Dr. Roby is listed in American Men and Women in Science (Twelfth Edition, 1973) and in Who's Who in America, Fifty-fourth Edition (2000) – Seventieth (2016). Her autobiography is one of twenty included in Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women In Sociology (A. Goetting, S. Fenstermaker, eds.), Temple University Press, 1995, pp. 319-33. Students and and colleagues have recognized Professor Roby's teaching. She is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers (seventh edition, 2002–tenth edition, 2006). She was the recipient of a 1993 University of California, Santa Cruz, Academic Senate Innovations in Teaching Award. At UCSC, she was named Favorite Faculty Member of the Kresge College Class of 2002; and the Merrill College Class of 2009, 2011 and 2012. In 2012 she was also the Keynote Speaker for Phi Beta Kappa.