Sherna berger gluck biography of mahatma gandhi

A panel of women scholars whose paths have crossed that of oral historian Sherna Berger Gluck described a woman who inspired them, challenged them and permanently affected their lives.

She has been their mentor, they said.

“I never, ever identified myself as a mentor,” she insisted.

Rather, she prefers calling herself an advocacy oral historian and activist scholar.

Certainly she is those things, but she also is a “mentor extraordinaire,” said Maylei Blackwell, vice chair of Chicano/Chicana Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“She wasn’t a hold-your-hand mentor,” Blackwell said.

“She was a kick-your-ass mentor.”

Blackwell said that until she was drawn into her mentor’s orbit, “I really thought I was going to be a waitress.”

Instead, she became a scholar and activist. “Sherna taught me that activism wasn’t something you did on the side,” Blackwell said.

Autumn Varley of Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, said Gluck’s work taught her that oral