An interview with Erik Olin
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“I am a classic baby-boomer: born in Berkeley in 1947 while my father was in medical school on the post-WWII G.I. Bill. I was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, where both of my parents were professors at the University of Kansas. I knew that I wanted to be a professor from about age 11. I am also a product of the 1960s, radicalized politically first by the civil rights movement and then by the the student anti-Vietnam war movement when I was an undergraduate.
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