Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction to the project and Mark Rousseau.
00:02:11 - Overview of career at UNO as a professor and department chairman
of Sociology, beginning in 1968.
00:03:03 - Grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana
00:04:31 - College at Indiana University and got a Bachelor of Arts and a
Master of Arts in Sociology.
00:05:35 - How he became interested in sociology.
00:07:31 - Graduate program in Medical Sociology in North Carolina and how
he decided on his degree and school.
00:09:47 - Segregation in North Carolina and involvement in the Civil Rights
Movement.
00:10:45 - Vietnam War era and participation in protesting the war.
00:11:22 - Came to UNO in 1968 while he was working on his dissertation,
which he finished in 1971.
00:13:04 - Recruited to come to University of Nebraska Omaha.
00:14:48 - First impressions of the University: much smaller than his previous
colleges, little landscape
00:15:42 - The department of Sociology of that time, hired by Wayne Wheeler,
but the chair was George Helling.
00:17:15 - They describe 1968 as a year of growth for the university.
00:17:48 - Meeting the Regents in 1968 and Edward Schwartzkopf offered to
buy him a haircut.
00:18:36 - A story of breaking the rule of having books in the dining room of the
cafeteria.
00:19:47 - The curriculum in sociology when he started compared to the late
2000s.
00:22:35 - Rousseau’s role as a department chair in sociology, mentions first
Sociology department chair (Dr. T. Earl Sullenger) and Ken Route, speaks
to the diversity of the department.
00:27:15 - Major challenges of his position as department chair for 13 years.
00:29:55 - Major rewards of the department chair position:
focus on growth of
the department.
00:33:10 - Summer institute programs and being a “Francophonie” (French
speaking person).
00:34:36 - Interest and studies in French society and culture and working with
Dylan Wiley at Harvard to go to France to study regionalism
in 1982.
00:36:18 - Meeting Ray Zorisky and writing a book together on regionalism and
regional evolution.
00:37:03 - Quebec Summer Seminar and summer research on the separatist
movement in Quebec, Canada.
00:38:47 - Francophonie Organization and work with Jody
Neathery
-
Castro in
language politics.
00:41:22 - Newton and Rousseau discuss their rafting trip in the Grand Canyon
and Rousseau’s interest in golfing.
00:42:10 - Rousseau’s most interesting research projects: separatist
movements in Quebec, Francophonie organization.
00:46:23 - Finding time and motivation to do research and be involved in
activities at UNO.
00:48:04 - Membership on the Dean’s Advisory Committee.
00:49:48 - Time and commitment that are required to be a college professor
and to be successful in the academic environment.
00:50:42 - Major significant changes in the university: growth physically and
intellectually.
00:52:17 - Prominent faculty members of the years: Bernie Kolasa, Elvira
Garcia, Scott Hunt, and Sociology department secretary Sophie Katz.
00:56:35 - Prominent former students: Gale Miller.
00:57:00 - Thank you and conclusion.
