Jurg K. Siegenthaler


Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Berne, Switzerland

E-mail: jsieg@american.edu
Phone:  202-885-2485

Professor Siegenthaler is Professor Emeritus (retired) of American University.



Professor Siegenthaler's research spans the topics of labor, technology, aging, and social policy analysis.  He has published several studies that are comparative in nature, for example, the book Conflicts of Industrialization, which traces the social costs of rapid industrialization in the nineteenth century; or a review of poverty risks for older single women under different systems of social security.  In 1996, he co-edited the Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology, which brings together sociological and finance perspectives on aging.  As of June 1999, he is Executive Director of the Institute for Socio-Financial Studies.  Professor Siegenthaler is fluent in German and French.
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