Mary Catherine Bateson Biography

Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist living in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire with frequent visits to Cambridge Massachusetts. She has written and co-authored many books and articles lectures across the country and abroad and has taught at Harvard Northeastern University Amherst College Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines and in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University and is now Professor Emerita. Since the Fall of 2006 she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. She has served on multiple advisory boards including that of the National Center on Atmospheric Research dealing with climate change. During the past few years MCB has completed two projects: a book titled Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom published by Knopf in September 2010 on the contributions and improvisations of engaged older adults written to raise consciousness of the changing life cycle and to encourage older adults to claim a voice for the future. This project continues to lead to further exploration of intergenerational communication and changing ways of experiencing time and involved her as a special consultant to the Lifelong Access Libraries Initiative of the Libraries for the Future with an emphasis on conceptualization testing and implementation of her Active Wisdom model for community dialogues as a signature program of the Initiative. She was a founder in 2004 of GrannyVoter now a program of Generations United where she is developing ongoing efforts to involve seniors in efforts on behalf of children and future generations as national co-chair of Seniors4kids.

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