Thomas J. Cottle
Professor of Education Emeritus
A sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Thomas J. Cottle is a professor of education emeritus at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He has held faculty positions at Harvard University, MIT, Boston College, Amherst College, Wesleyan University, Columbia College in Chicago, and a research position with the Children’s Defense Fund. In addition, he has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois. Professor Cottle is the author of thirty books, including Drawing Life, and more than five hundred and fifty articles, essays and reviews.
Education
LHD, Lesley University
LHD, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
PhD, University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Harvard University
Selected Publications
Our Thoughts and Our Prayers. Antioch Review, volume 68, No. 2, Spring, 2010, pages 232-238.
Seeking Lodging and the Best Lights: The Challenge of Teaching. SCHOOLS, volume 5, number 1/2, 2008, pages 25-34.
Cottle, T. J. (2004). When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press.
Cottle, T. J. (2003). A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press.
Cottle, T. J. (2003). Beyond Self Esteem: Narratives of Self-Knowledge and Devotion. New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing.
Cottle, T. J. (2002). Intimate Appraisals: Social Writings of Thomas J. Cottle. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England.
Cottle, T. J. (2001). Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment. Connecticut : Praeger.
Cottle, T. J. (2001). Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of distraction. New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing.
Cottle, T. J. (2001). At Peril: Stories of Injustice. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1981). Like Fathers, Like Sons. Norwood, NJ : Ablex Publishing.
Cottle, T. J. , Cathy Stein Greenblat (1980). Getting Married: a New Look at an Old Tradition. New York, NY : McGraw Hill.
Cottle, T. J. (1980). Children’s Secrets. New York, NY : Doubleday.
Cottle, T. J. (1980). Black Testimony: Voices of Britain’s West Indians. Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1980). Hidden Survivors: Portraits of Poor Jews in America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall.
Cottle, T. J. , Phillip Whitten (1979). Psychotherapy: Current Perspectives. New York, NY : Franklin Watts.
Cottle, T. J. (1977). Private Lives and Public Accounts. Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press.
Cottle, T. J. , Phillip Whitten (1977). Human Adjustment. San Francisco, CA : Canfield Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1977). Children in Jail. Boston, MA : Beacon Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1977). College: Reward and Betrayal. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1977). Adolescent Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York, NY : Harper & Row.
Cottle, T. J. (1976). Barred from School. Washington, DC : New Republic Book Company.
Cottle, T. J. (1976). Busing. Boston, MA : Beacon Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1976). Perceiving Time: An Investigation with Men and Women. New York, NY : Wiley.
Cottle, T. J. (1974). Black Children, White Dreams. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin.
Cottle, T. J. (1974). A Family Album: Portraits of Intimacy and Kinship. New York, NY : Harper & Row.
Cottle, T. J. , Stephen L. Klineberg (1974). The Present of Things Future: Explorations of Time Human in Experience. New York, NY : The Free Press.
Cottle, T. J. (1973). The Voices of School: Educational Issues through Personal Accounts. Boston, MA : Little, Brown.
Cottle, T. J. (1973). The Abandoners: Portraits of Loss, Separation and Neglect. Boston, MA : Little, Brown.
Cottle, T. J. , Craig Eisendrath and Lawrence Fink (1972). Out of Discontent: Visions of the Contemporary University. Cambridge, MA : Schenkman Publishing.
Cottle, T. J. (1972). The Prospect of Youth: Contexts for Sociological Inquiry. Boston, MA : Little, Brown.
Cottle, T. J. (1971). Time’s Children: Impressions of Youth. Boston, MA : Little, Brown.