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Judith Blake was born and raised primarily in New York City; she received her BS degree magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1951 and her PhD in 1961. She had a remarkable and sustained record of scholarly contributions, which can be divided into five interrelated periods differentiated by a combination of substantive emphases, methodological approaches, and time periods. Blake was the founding Chair of the Group in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, which became the first demography department in the United States. She subsequently was the first incumbent of the Fred N. Bixby Chair in Population Policy at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in sociology. Blake served on numerous university and professional committees and boards and was elected President of the Population Association of America in 1981, the association’s fiftieth anniversary. At the time of her death (1993), Blake was Editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. Judith Blake was a dynamic and creative researcher and teacher who left a strong legacy in her research, the students she taught, and the friends and colleagues she influenced. |
