Department of Sociology

Professor Cathy Greenblat retired in 2002 after 38 years as a member of the Department of Sociology, WGSS, and the Bloustein School of Planning. Since then, she had been a Professor Emerita of Sociology at Rutgers and had honorary appointments at Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Lancaster, and the University of Nice. The author of 15 books and more than 100 articles, Cathy lectured in the USA, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, Ghana, Cameroon, the Philippines, China, Australia, and Japan. Since her retirement, she was engaged in personal cross-cultural photographic projects on aging, dementia, and end of life care, with collaborations with several organizations, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI).