Barbara Ehrenreich: Biography
One of the most recognized and original social commentators, author/journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has been a contributing writer for Time Magazine since 1990. Her articles covering healthcare, class, families, sex, and gender politics have appeared in a range of national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Progressive, and Harper's.
Ehrenreich received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" for a chapter of Nickel and Dimed, which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published by Harper's (April 2000), where it generated so many letters that the magazine had to create a special section to accommodate them. Both articles drew widespread media interest.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Ford Foundation Award for Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Society in 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-88, and a grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1995. She shared the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting in 1980 and has received honorary degrees from Reed College, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in biology from the Rockefeller University and a B.A. from Reed College. She has taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at U. C. Berkeley and at Brandeis University.
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