Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 1991

About Marvin B. Sussman

Marvin B. Sussman was the Unidel Professor Emeritus of Human Behavior at the University of Delaware. Sussman came to the University of Delaware from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, where he had been a professor of sociology and chairperson of the Department of Medical Social Sciences for four years. Previously, he was the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology from 1955-72 and director of the Institute on Family and Bureaucratic Society from 1969-75 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland; visiting assistant professor of sociology from 1954-55 at the University of Chicago; and assistant professor of sociology from 1951-54 at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Sussman was a prolific writer and lecturer in the area of individual and family studies, and was on the leading edge of many fields of study in sociology. He authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 53 monographs and books, authored 118 chapters in books and monographs, and published 120 articles dealing with the family, community, rehabilitation, organizations, sociology of medicine and aging. He was the founding editor of, Marriage and Family Review. He traveled to more than 40 countries around the world to develop cross-national research in the field.

Sussman received a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1941, a master's degree from George Williams College in 1943, a master's degree from Yale University in 1949 and a doctorate from Yale in 1951.

The School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI holds many of his materials at the Sussman-Steinmetz Research Library. It was established through a contribution of Sussman's books, journals, and papers through the initiative of Professor Suzanne K. Steinmetz of the IUPUI Sociology Department. through the initiative of Professor Suzanne K. Steinmetz of the IUPUI Sociology Department. The library contains an extensive collection of family science and sociology books and journals with emphasis on population/demography, aging, family violence, sexuality, medical/health, law, history, race/ethnicity, and deviance.