Degree
BS, Michigan State University, 1974; MA, McGill University, 1975; PhD, SUNY Binghamton, 1980
Teaching Experience
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1981-82; Bowdoin College, 1980-81
Specialties
Political sociology, racial and social stratification
Interests
The experiences, hopes, and aspirations of African American teenagers in a small urban high school.
Publications
Books:
- Enriching the Sociological Imagination:How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline (Paradigm, 2005)
- Class, Networks, and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
- Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates (Rowman and Littlefield,1999)
- Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital and the State (University Press of Kansas, 1988)
- Recapturing Marxism: An Appraisal of Recent Trends in Sociological Theory, co-edited (Praeger, 1987)
- Radical Sociologists and the Movement, ed. (Temple University Press, 1991)
- Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, co-ed. (Westview, 1991)
Published Articles In: - Conflicts and Change (Vol. 4)
- Research in Social Movements
- Journal of Political and Military Sociology
- Social Problems
- Humanity and Society
- Current Perspectives in Social Theory (Vol. 5)
- Research in Political Sociology,
- From the Left Bank to the Mainstream: Historical Debates and Contemporary Research in Marxist Sociology
- Wisconsin Journal of Sociology
- Numerous reviews and comments in States and Societies
- The Review of Radical Political Economics
- Insurgent Sociologist
- Sociology: Reviews of New Books
- Contemporary Sociology
- Critical Sociology
- Social Forces
- Labor History
- American Political Science Review
- Journal of American History
- Left History
- Gender and Society
- Michigan Sociological Review
Distinctions
- Fellowship Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1996
- Grant, Fund for the Advancement for the Discipline, American Sociological Association 1997
- Research grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation 1998
- Arnold A Sio Chair of Diversity and Community, 2005-2006