Leonard Broom | |
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Born | Vale Leonard Broom November 8, 1911 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | November 19, 2009 | (aged 98)
Other names | Leonard Bloom |
Education | Boston University, Duke University |
Spouse | Gretchan Cooke Broom |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Fulbright Fellowship (1950), Guggenheim Fellowship (1958), visiting fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1962-3) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | University of California-Los Angeles, University of Texas at Austin, Australian National University, University of California-Santa Barbara |
Thesis | The acculturation of the eastern Cherokee (1937) |
Vale Leonard Broom (November 8, 1911–November 19, 2009) also known as Leonard Bloom, was an American sociologist whose career spanned seven decades. He was known for his research on discrimination and social inequality, which began with his studies on the effects of Japanese internment.[1][2]