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.Click on the PDFs to read more. Includes photograph, interview quotes, and the full interview narrative.