Charles Derber is an American Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Derber was born in Washington DC in January 1944, the son of New Deal economist Milton Derber. Routine evenings in the Derber household featured dinner discussions of politics and economics, imprinting a New Deal ideological framework upon young Derber. Reaching adulthood in the 1960s, Derber buried himself within the works of Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse while in jail for protesting the Vietnam War. He attended Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1965 and was a member of Manuscript Society. He attended the University of Chicago, and obtained his PhD in political science.
