Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ph.D.

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of nine books including, most recently Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award, and The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, and The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. In 2015, she was awarded the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, Ireland. Hochschild has also won Guggenheim, Fulbright and Mellon fellowships, and three awards granted by the American Sociological Association—the Charles Cooley Award (for The Managed Heart) the Jessie Bernard Award (for The Second Shift, The Time Bind and Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy), and the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology (for lifetime achievement). In awarding Hochschild the Jessie Bernard Award, the citation observed her “creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases.”