{"id":29118,"date":"2015-12-31T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/?p=29118"},"modified":"2016-01-05T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:22:37","slug":"in-memoriam-susan-hoeber-rudolph-1930-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/2015\/12\/in-memoriam-susan-hoeber-rudolph-1930-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 1930-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29119\" style=\"border: 6px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rudolph.jpg\" alt=\"rudolph\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/>Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago died in Oakland, California, on December 23. She was 85 years old and had suffered from Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Rudolph was a native of Germany and immigrated to the United States just before the outbreak of World War II. The family settled in Philadelphia. She earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and a Ph.D. at Harvard University. At Harvard she met her husband Lloyd Rudolph who became her academic colleague in the study of India.<\/p>\n<p>The Rudolphs authored a number of books on India including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0226731375\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0226731375&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thejouofblain-20&amp;linkId=XRXRVRGLH6JRKTSJ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Modernity of Tradition: <\/em><\/a><span class=\"a-size-extra-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0226731375\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0226731375&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thejouofblain-20&amp;linkId=XRXRVRGLH6JRKTSJ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Political Development in India<\/em><\/a> (University of Chicago Press, 1968), <\/span><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674238656\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0674238656&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thejouofblain-20&amp;linkId=5SSVPXMGGKEOTPUA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Education and Politics in India<\/em><\/a> (Harvard University Press, 1972), <\/span><span class=\"a-size-extra-large\">and the three-volume set <\/span><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195693647\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0195693647&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thejouofblain-20&amp;linkId=V67XUKHZR2IA7GRG\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty Year Perspective 1956-2006<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2008).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susanne Hoeber Rudolph was the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She and her husband Lloyd Rudolph were academic colleagues, authoring several books on democracy in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[51,663,244],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiareport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}