Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer, of Providence, R.I.; Sept. 27. Professor emeritus of sociology. He earned a degree in economics and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Cologne, and a Rockefeller Fellowship brought him to Columbia University. After teaching at Dartmouth and the University of Toronto, he settled in Providence in 1967 and joined the Brown faculty. He was one of the founders of Brown’s Center for the Comparative Study of Development, which became the Watson Institute. His influential works include Capitalist Development and Democracy, Bringing the State Back In, and Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research. Additionally, he published Westrup: A Private Novel. He is survived by wife Marilyn Rueschemeyer, two daughters and sons-in-law, including daughter Julia Rueschemeyer ’87 and son-in-law Benjamin H. Bailey ’87, five grandchildren, including Talia Rueschemeyer-Bailey ’18, Solomon N. Rueschemeyer-Bailey ’20 and AJ Braverman ’21, and two siblings.