Short Biography of Ted Goertzel

     Ted Goertzel is a sociologist at Rutgers University, Camden
NJ 08102 where he also directs the Forum for Policy Research,
doing research on welfare and health issues in southern New
Jersey.  He was the first chairperson of the Section on Marxist
Sociology of the American Sociological Association.  Goertzel
recently authored Turncoats and True Believers:  The Dynamics of
Political Belief and Disillusionment (Buffalo NY:  Prometheus,
1992).  The first chapter of the book contrasts his life history
with that of Albert Szymanski, a well known Marxist sociologist
who was at the University of Oregon until his suicide in 1985. 
Goertzel contrasts his experiences as a "turncoat" with Al
Szymanski's as a "true believer."