East-West Center Oral History Project : Bob Retherford

Abstract

Bob Retherford, Coordinator of the Research Program's Population and Health study area, was a sociology graduate student and social activist at UC Berkeley in the 1960s when a Population Council fellowship led him into the field of population studies. Paul Demeny, director of the newly-founded East-West Population Institute, later recruited him, along with fellow Berkeley Ph.D. students Griff Feeney, Bob Gardner, and Geoff McNicoll.<br><br>Click on the PDFs to read more. Includes photograph, interview quotes, and the full interview narrative.