with more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were interned in concentration camps following the signing of Executive Order 9066. Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming. When her family was released in 1945, they moved to Chicago, where Glenn was raised until the age of 16. The family returned to California and Glenn graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1958. Glenn received her BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. She then went on to receive her PhD from Harvard University. Her first academic position was as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University; she has also taught at Florida State University, Binghamton University, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii. She has been at the University of California, Berkeley since 1990. Teaching Glenn has taught a variety of courses having to do with research methods and theory in the social sciences, women and work, the Asian American family, comparative gender systems, race and social structures in the United States, and graduate seminars in gender, race, and class. Associations American Sociological Association, 1972–present (elected President in June 2008) Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1976–present (served as president, 1998–1999) Sociologists for Women in Society, 1983–present (served as Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Sociology, 2008) Pacific Sociological Association Council on Contemporary Families Massachusetts Sociological Association (President, 1979–80) Association for Asian American Studies Awards 2015 Asian American & Asian Disapora Studies Award, UC Berkeley 2013 KQED Asian American Local Heroes Award 2012 Lee Founders Award for Life Achievement("in recognition of significant achievements over a distinguished career, that have demonstrated a long-time devotion to the ideals ... and especially to the humanistic tradition of sociology ...") awarded by the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2011 at its national convention, August 2012. 2011 C.Wright Mills Award (finalist), for her book Forced to Care, awarded by Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2007 Sociologists for Women in Society, Feminist Lecturer for Outstanding Feminist Sociology. 2005 Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association "in recognition of outstanding scholarship that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society". 2004 Outstanding Book Award, American