Biography
Born in California of Nisei (second generation) parents, Glenn (a Sansei) was imprisoned from 1942–1945, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in internment camps. 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.
Prof. Glenn received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and 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.
Glenn has been married to Gary Glenn since 1962; they have three children: Sara Haruye Jotoku, Antonia Grace Glenn, and Patrick Alexander Glenn. Glenn became a grandmother in February 2011 when her daughter Antonia gave birth to a boy, Kiyoshi Glenn-Horstein.
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