Mark A. Chesler

Professor Emeritus Mark Chesler passed away on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

MARK A. CHESLER is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Executive Director of Community Resources Ltd. in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mark is an activist scholar conducting research, teaching, consulting, and organizing on issues of social justice and personal/organizational change around race and gender equity and of the psychosocial impact of childhood cancer. His work focuses on these issues in the contexts of: (1) challenging racism/sexism and implementing multiculturalism in higher educational as well as corporate and community systems, including the ways in which entitlement/privilege and historic oppression are acted out in pedagogies and management styles;  (2) the experience of teens, young adults and families surviving childhood cancer and creating and sustaining voluntary and non-profit groups, especially with regard to issues of patient/citizen empowerment and the improvement of social services targeted at families of children with cancer.