Editing Sherry Turkle (section)

==Early life and education==
Sherry Turkle was born in [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]] on June 18, 1948. After she graduated as a [[valedictorian]] from [[Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, New York)|Abraham Lincoln High School]] in 1965, she began her studies at [[Radcliffe College]], graduating in 1969  with a bachelor's degree in Social Studies. She then obtained a master's degree in sociology in 1973 and a doctorate in Sociology and Personality Psychology in 1976, both from [[Harvard University]]. Inspired by her time in France during her undergraduate years, she did her dissertation research in France, "writing about the relationship between Freudian thought and the modern French revolutionary movements."<ref name="Henderson 2009, p. 482" /> This relationship was also the subject of her first book, ''Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution''. Turkle has been married twice, first to MIT researcher Seymour Papert, and then to consultant Ralph Willard. Both marriages ended in divorce.