Calvin Goldscheider ’63 AM, ’64 PhD

Calvin Goldscheider ’63 AM, ’64 PhD, of Bethesda, Md.; Jan. 13, from pancreatic cancer. He was a Fulbright research scholar at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles, where he worked together with his wife, Brown Professor Emerita of Sociology Frances Goldscheider. He held faculty positions at the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley before moving to Israel with his family in 1971, where he became professor of sociology and demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chairman of the department of demography. He returned to the U.S. and was a visiting professor at Brown in 1976 and 1978, 1980–1982 and a full tenured professor from 1984 to 2005. In the 1980s, he was also a visiting professor at Brandeis University. He was a senior Fulbright research scholar and visiting professor at the Center for Women’s Studies at Stockholm University in the late 1990s. After retiring, he was a Scholar in Residence in Israeli and Jewish Studies at American University. He was awarded the Marshall Sklare Award of the Association of Jewish Studies for distinguished contributions to social scientific study of Jewry in 2001. During his tenure he published more than 30 books and co-authored The Transformation of the Jews with Dr. Alan Zuckerman. In addition to his wife, he is survived by four children, eight grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.