Barbara R. Walters, PhD –
AKA Barbara Walters Doehrman
Professor Emerita – Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, and Human Relations
Barbara R. Walters has had a distinguished social research and leadership career across various sectors for over fifty years. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University, an M.A. in Musicology, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stony Brook University. Dr. Walters received significant fellowships and conducted postdoctoral research in Psychiatry. She served as Director and Vice President of Human Resources for a retail firm during its expansion period and IPO, linked internal training to external academic programs, and held various board positions, including the Virginia Board of Health Professions and the Virginia Opera.
Dr. Walters coordinated, developed, and led academic programs at the City University of New York, including the first honors journal at Kingsborough and online programs at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. She held visiting scholar positions at Oxford University and the University of Notre Dame. She has authored two academic books, numerous professional reports and articles on Human Resource management, sociology, art, music, and women’s rights.
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook: Sociology, 1978
M.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook: Sociology, 1973
M.A. State University of New York at Stony Brook: Music, 1996
B.A. Vanderbilt University: Psychology, 1970 (3-Year Graduate)
Fellowships:
Summer Fellowship for Three-Year Graduates. 1968. Vanderbilt University.
Fellow, SUNY Center for Literature and Culture, Paris, France, 1972-73
NIMH Methodology Traineeship: 1970-1974. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Sociology.
NIMH Post-Doctoral Research-in-Service Award: 1976-77: Sex Differences in Cognitive Styles and Spatial Reasoning among Preschool Children, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Psychiatry.
Doctoral Dissertation and MA Theses:
The Politics of Aesthetic Judgment — an empirical analysis of the changing art world and patrons with “modern” art shaping the site of struggle for status and power among different groups, especially recently assimilated Jews, in fin-de-siècle France.
MA Thesis in Sociology: Path Analysis of Teaching Evaluations.
MA Thesis in Music: W.A. Mozart and The Magic Flute: Aria as Drama.
