Oral history interview with Astrid S. Tuminez, 1999

Biographical Note

Project Manager.

Scope and Contents

Childhood in the Philippines; education at Catholic schools; repression under the Marcos regime; undergraduate education at Brigham Young University; graduate education at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; study of defense and arms control for dissertation; appointment to administration of Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions in Moscow; marriage to husband in Massachusetts; relationship with David Hamburg; conflict prevention in former Soviet states; goals of the Harvard project; familiarity with the Carnegie Corporation; move to Carnegie Corporation; relationship with David Speedie.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Endowments--United States.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Peace-building.
• Tuminez, Astrid S., 1964---Interviews.
• Women college presidents--Interviews.
• Women political scientists--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon interviewer.