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Maurice Zeitlin (born February 24, 1935) is an American sociologist. Zeitlin is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where he has taught since 1978. ...

Early life and career
Zeitlin was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 24, 1935. He is the son of Albert Joseph and Rose Zeitlin (née Goldberg). He attended Wayne State University graduating in 1957 cum laude before attending the University of California, Berkeley. Zeitlin graduated with a PhD from Berkeley in sociology in 1964, where his dissertation was supervised by Seymour Martin Lipset. Prior to his graduation from Berkeley, Zeitlin was appointed as instructor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University in 1961. The summer of his appointment to Princeton, Zeitlin traveled to Cuba to begin research for his dissertation on the Cuban Revolution and the class consciousness of the Cuban working class.

Upon Zeitlin's return to the United States the following year, Princeton University terminated his employment. Zeitlin's termination followed the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a period of heightened diplomatic tensions between Cuba and the United States following discovery of Soviet ballistic missiles on the island. Prior to the Crisis, Zeitlin had made both public appearances where he expressed concern with American foreign policy toward Cuba and engaged in newspaper debates on the issue. Members of the Princeton community expressed their dissatisfaction with Zeitlin's opinions on Cuba in the university's publication The Daily Princetonian and in the university's alumni newsletter. Following his termination at Princeton, Zeitlin was hired to the sociology faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, where he obtained the rank of full professor in 1970.