Dr. Todd Gitlin (1943-2022) was a sociologist, educator, political writer, novelist, cultural commentator, and author of sixteen books. He wrote about mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications. He was a professor of Journalism and Sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in Communications at Columbia University. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard College and earned his Master's degree from the University of Michigan in Political Science, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Sociology.]]>