Durrr biography
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Education History
1993 Ph.D, Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation: The Use of Cross-Ethnic Ties in the Facilitation of Promotions: African Americans and Managerial Labor Markets in the Public Sector
1985 M. A., Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
1979 M. A., African American Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
1978 B. S., Liberal Studies, University of Detroit and University at Albany
Teaching
- Research Methods
- Sociology of Work
- Race and Minority Relations
- Sociology of Gender
- Race, Work, and Family
- Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS
- Urban Sociology
- Neighborhoods and Communities
- Explaining Crime
- The Social Politics of African American Women
Publications
Books
Durr, Marlese. 2006. Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African American Men and Women. Textbook/Reader, edited by Marlese Durr and Shirley A. Hill. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Durr, Marlese. 2002. The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to The 21st Century. edited by Marlese Durr. West Port, Connecticut: Praeger Press.
Guest Edited Periodicals
Durr, Marlese.2002."African American Women: Gender Relations, Work, and The Political Economy in The Twenty-First Century."
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Durr, Virginia Foster
August 6, 1903 to February 24, 1999
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Albrecht Dürer
German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528)
Albrecht Dürer (DURE-ər,[1]German:[ˈalbʁɛçtˈdyːʁɐ];[2][3][1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),[4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by EmperorMaximilian I.
Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts series are stylistically more Gothic than the rest of his work, but revolutionised the potential of that medium, while his extraordinary handling of the burin expanded especially the tonal range of his engravings; well-known engravings include the three Meisterstiche (master prints) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514), and Melencolia I (1514). His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, and with hi