Sheldon Ekland-Olson (born 1944 in

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) is an American sociologist and Rapoport Centennial Professor of sociology at the

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(UT-Austin).

Education and career

Ekland-Olson received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the

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in 1971. He went on to serve as a special assistant to the chancellor of the University of Texas system from 1988 to 1991. He was the associate dean of the

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from 1991 to 1993, whereupon he became the College's dean. In 1998, he became the executive vice president and provost of UT-Austin, a position he held until 2006. He has also been the director of UT-Austin's Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation and the School of Human Ecology.''Who's Who in America'' (59th ed.) (re: "Sheldon Ekland-Olson") (bio),

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(2005);

Books

Steve J. Martin and Sheldon Ekland-Olson Texas Prisons: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press. 1993 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and William Kelly Justice Under Pressure: A Comparison of Recidivism Patterns Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1994 James Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Jon Sorensen. The Rope, The Chair and The Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas 1923-1990. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 2011 Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? – Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment. New York: Routledge Hamilton Book Award 2012 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Julie Beicken. How Ethical Systems Change: Eugenics, the Final Solution, Bioethics. New York: Routledge. 2012 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Elyshia Aseltine. How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care . New York: Routledge. 2012 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Elyshia Aseltine. How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying. New York: Routledge. 2012 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Danielle Dirks. How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment. New York: Routledge. 2013 Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Life and Death Decisions: The Quest for Morality and Justice. New York: Routledge 2014 Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? – Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment. New York: Routledge Revised Edition 2014 Sheldon Ekland-Olson. Life and Death Decisions: The Quest for Morality and Justice. New York: Routledge Revised Edition 2017 Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Jack P. Gibbs. Science and Sociology: Predictive Power is the Name of the Game. Routledge/Taylor Francis.

References

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