Last updated on:
1/23/2012 |
Author: ProCon.org
Jack Nusan Porter, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Holocaust Scholar
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Jan. 27, 2012.
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Holocaust Scholar
- Former Treasurer, International Association of Genocide Scholars
- Former Lecturer of Social Science, Boston University
- Former Research Associate in Ukranian Studies, Harvard University
- Founder, The Spencer School of Real Estate, 1984
- Lecturer of Jewish History, Emerson College, 1976
- Founding Editor, Journal of the History of Sociology, 1976
- Lecturer of Behavioral Sciences, Pine Manor College, 1974-1975
- Part-time Lecturer of Jewish Studies, Boston College, 1973-1974
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Cortland, 1971-1972
- Co-founder, Jewish Student Movement, 1970
- Education:
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- PhD, Sociology, Northwestern University, 1971
- BA, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1967
- Other:
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- Born in Ukraine on Dec. 2, 1944
- Lived in a Displaced Person Camp near Linz, Austria from 1945 to 1946
- Came to America in 1946 aboard one of the first two ships to leave Europe after the Holocaust
- Active in Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960’s
- Ordained as a rabbi by an Orthodox Vaad in New York City in mid-life
- Served congregations in Massachusetts and Florida and led an outreach movement to gays, lesbians, and transvestites
- Has two children