Richard G. Braungart

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND PHOTO

           Richard (Dick) Braungart is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Political Science, and International Relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (SU).  From 1972 to 2002, he taught numerous courses at SU, including political sociology, international political psychology, life course and generations as well as collective behavior and social movements.  He also coordinated a large entry-level team-taught Maxwell School course entitled "Critical Issues for the United States."  He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 1969 and taught at Penn State and the University of Maryland before coming to Syracuse.  In 1970, he served as the Survey Research Director for the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (Scranton Commission) in Washington, D.C.; he was a cofounder of the American Sociological Association Section on Political Sociology in 1982; and from 1994-1998 was President of the Committee on Political Sociology, an international organization jointly affiliated with the International Sociological Association and the International Political Science Association.  He is the author and editor of eleven books and journals and has published over two hundred articles, chapters, and reviews on numerous topics.  His publications have been translated into ten languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Chinese, and Arabic.

            The Braungart family home is outside Syracuse in Manlius, New York.  For over 45 years, Dick has been married to Margaret (Peg), who received her Ph.D. in Psychology from SU in 1980.  Peg is a Professor Emeritus of Bioethics and Humanities at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.  She served as the Chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Human Studies (1991-1998), SUNY Upstate Medical University, where she was an active faculty member for over two decades.  Dick and Peg have collaborated on many research projects, traveled to many lands, and written many articles and books together, but their greatest creations are their three wonderful daughters—Julie, Katie, and Beth.

            Oldest daughter, Julie graduated from SU in 1987 with a B.S. degree in Biology and Psychology, earned a Ph.D. degree in Human Development from Penn State in 1992, and married Joe Rieker (Ph.D. degree in Engineering, Penn State, 1993).  Julie and Joe live near South Bend, Indiana, where Julie is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame.  Joe works in the research and trouble-shooting divisions of Bosch and is an expert on auto braking systems.  Julie and Joe are the happy parents of Ryan and Megan.

             Middle daughter, Katie, graduated from SU in 1995 with a B.A. degree in English and Textual Studies (Phi Beta Kappa).  While at SU, Katie studied at both the Florence and London DIPA Programs and is very much the world traveler in the family.  After interesting jobs in NYC, Nantucket, and San Francisco, Katie returned to Nantucket where she met and married Jonathan Hemingway.  Katie and Jon are living on Nantucket Island with their two daughters Elizabeth and Madeline and are running a highly successful landscaping business, Hemingwayscapes.  

             Youngest daughter, Beth, is a 2000 graduate of SU, with a B.S. in Psychology (Phi Beta Kappa).  During her senior year, she was selected to be one of the Remembrance Scholars in honor of the 35 SU students who died in the Pan Am 103 crash on December 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland.  Beth earned her Ph.D. degree from Penn State University in 2005, specializing in developmental psychology and aging.  She is married to Andy Fauth (Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering, Penn State, 2005), and they are the proud parents of daughter Avery.  Beth is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development at Utah State University.  Andy works for a medical device firm, and they both live in Logan, Utah.

This family photo was taken in 2007 on Tuckernuck Island, a tiny natural island with no electricity off the western edge of Nantucket that can only be accessed by boat.  To fill you in on who is who: in the back row from left to right are Julie and Joe Rieker (living in Granger, Indiana, outside South Bend), Andy and Beth Fauth (living in Logan, Utah), and Dick and Peg Braungart (still surviving in Syracuse); in the front row are: Nancy Rappaport (Jon's mom), Megan and Ryan Rieker, Katie and Jon Hemingway and baby Elizabeth (living on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts).  Granddaughters Madeline Hemingway and Avery Fauth (not in picture) were born after the photo was taken.

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