Anne Foner, 101, professor emerita of sociology at Rutgers University, died on September 28, 2022. A member of the first (1941) graduating class of Queens College (now part of the City University of New York), she returned to graduate school two decades later and received a PhD in sociology from New York University in 1969. She went on to teach at Rutgers University for more than 20 years, and on retirement was honored with a dissertation prize in her name. Foner was the author of many books and articles on the analysis of aging and society, as well as coeditor of volumes one and three of Aging and Society, with Matilda White Riley (Russell Sage Foundation 1968 and 1972). Foner was chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course (1987–88) and received its Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award in 1989.
