Interview with Meredith Heiser-Duron : Alumni Stories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Meredith Heiser-Duron (AB Political Science, 1976) speaks about growing up in a military family and attending high school at Punahou School in Hawaii and reflects on her Stanford experience in the 1970s. She shares memories of her freshman dorm, choosing a major, faculty members Bob Keohane and Hans Weiler, and studying abroad in Germany at both the Beutelsbach and Stanford in Berlin campuses. She explains how studying abroad impacted her career, ultimately leading to a PhD in international relations and a faculty appointment at Foothill College. She also reflects on the gender dynamics of the time, access to birth control at Cowell Health Center, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | October 21, 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Heiser-Duron, Meredith | |
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| Creator | Heiser-Duron, Meredith | |
| Interviewer | Marine-Street, Natalie J. | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 1972-1976 |
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| Subject | Universities and colleges |
| Subject | College students |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biographical Profile | Meredith Heiser-Duron was born into a military family and moved every two to three years as a child. As luck would have it, her father retired while she was in high school. As a result, she was able to attend and graduate from Punahou in Honolulu (class of 1972). From there, she went directly to Stanford University, where she graduated with a degree in Political Science in 1976. For most of her college senior year, she attended Stanford in Germany. She received advance degrees in international relations/political science from the Free University in Berlin, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University. She taught political science for thirty years at Foothill College in Northern California and served for a decade as a faculty union office for Foothill De Anza Community College District. At the same time, she taught undergraduate, graduate, and extension classes at Stanford University--these classes focused more on her research interests, which are German politics, the process of political democratization, and EU/NATO expansion. She is now happily retired and lives about ten minutes by car from Stanford University. |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yg773yq5158 |
| Location | SC0932 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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