Curriculum Vitae

Higher Education
    Honors BA in Political Science and Sociology, summa cum laude, York University, 1973
    MA in Sociology, York University, 1974
    PhD in Political Economy, University of Toronto, 1976

Academic Appointments
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bishop's University (Lennoxville, Quebec), 1976-77
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo (Ontario), 1977-80
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1981-83
    Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1983-90
    Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY-Buffalo, 1990-94
    Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994-1998
    Professor of Sociology and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-present

Administrative Appointments
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1983-90
    Associate Dean, Graduate School, SUNY-Buffalo, 1990-91
    Chair, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1991-94
    Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994-98
    Director, Center for Theory, University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-present

Editorial Work
    Editor, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1990-95
    Editor, Monograph Series on Social and Cultural Theory, JAI Press, 1994-
    Associate Editor, European Journal of Social Theory, 2001-present

Publications: Books
    1979. Western Marxism: An Introduction, Santa Monica: Goodyear (translated in Korean, Chinese)
    1982. Social Problems Through Conflict and Order (with S.A McDaniel), Toronto: Addison-Wesley
    1989. Socio(onto)logy: A Disciplinary Reading, Champaign: University of Illinois Press
    1989. Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance, Champaign: University of Illinois Press
    1989. Reading Science: A Literary, Political and Sociological Analysis, Dix Hills, NY: General Hall
    1990. The Decline of Discourse: Reading, Writing and Resistance in Postmodern Capitalism, London/Philadelphia: Falmer Press
    1991. A Critical Theory of Public Life: Knowledge, Discourse and Politics in an Age of Decline, London/ Philadelphia: Falmer Press
    1992. The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism, Evanston: Northwestern University Press
    1992. Cultural Studies as Critical Theory, London/Philadelphia: Falmer Press (translated into Korean)
    1993. Gender, Culture and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critical Theory, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers
    1998. Critical Social Theories: An Introduction, Boulder: Westview Press
    2000. Public Sociology: From Social Facts to Literary Acts, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (in press)
    2002. Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves and Theories. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield; to be published in Ukrainian.
    2004. The Virtual Self: A Contemporary Sociology. Boston: Blackwell.
    2004. Speeding Up Fast Capitalism: Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

Publications: Books Forthcoming
    Fast Families, Virtual Children (with Beth Anne Shelton), under contract with Paradigm Publishers.
    Hey, Hey, LBJ: Generation and Identity among Sixties People, under contract with Paradigm Publishers.

Publications: Articles in Refereed Journals and Books
    1974. "Invisible Politics: Critique of Empirical Urbanism," Polity, Vol. 6, No. 4, 540-551
    1975. "On Science as Domination" in Domination, ed. by Alkis Kontos, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 185-200
    1976. "On Happiness and the Damaged Life," in On Critical Theory, ed. by John O'Neill, New York: Seabury, 13-33
    ---. "Marcuse and Habermas on New Science," Polity, Vol. 9, No. 2, 151-181
    1977. "Dialectical Sensibility I: Critical Theory, Scientism and Empiricism," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, 3-34
    ---. "Dialectical Sensibility II: Towards a New Intellectuality," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 1, No. 2, 47-57
    1979. "The Growing Relevance of Marcuse's Dialectic of Individual and Class," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 2, 135-145
    ---. "Work and Authority in Marcuse and Habermas," Human Studies, Vol. 2, 191 -208
    1980. "Bourgeois Marxism," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 4, No. 1, 206- 212
    1981. "A Critical Theory of Dialogue," Humanities in Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, 7-30
    1982. "Marcuse's Freudian Marxism," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 4, 319-336
    1983. "The Dialectic of Desire: The Holocaust, Monopoly Capitalism and Radical Anamnesis," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2, 75-86
    ---. "Marxism 'or' the Frankfurt School?" Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3, 347-365
    1984. "Left-Wing Scholarship: Current Contradictions of Academic Production," (with Allan Rachlin), Humanities in Society, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, 241-256
    1985. "The Dialectic of Deindustrialization: An Essay on Advanced Capitalism," in Critical Theory and Public Life, ed. by John Forester, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 3-21
    1988. "Marcuse's Aesthetic Politics: Ideology-Critique and Socialist Ontology," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 329-341
    1989. "Do Books Write Authors?: A Study of Disciplinary Hegemony," Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 3, 365-369
    ---. "Marcuse's One-Dimensionality: Ideological and Socio-Historical Context," Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 315-329
    ---. "Is Wright Wrong (or Should Burawoy be Buried)?: Reflections on the Crisis of the 'Crisis of Marxism'," Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, 187-207
    1991. "Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and Postmodernism," Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 17, 105-131
    ---. "The Micro-Macro Non-Problem: The Parsonianization of American Sociological Theory," Human Studies, Vol. 14, 81-98
    ---. "Theorizing the Decline of Discourse or the Decline of Theoretical Discourse?" in Critical Theory Now, ed. by Philip Wexler, London/Philadelphia: Falmer Press, 118-144
    ---. "Why Theorize?" Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 11, ix-xii
    1992. "Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction," in The Politics of Culture and Creativity: A Critique of Civilization, ed. by Christine Ward Gailey, Tallahassee, FL: University Press of Florida, 427-450
    1993. "Shotgun Wedding, Unhappy Marriage, No-Fault Divorce?: Rethinking the Feminism- Marxism Relationship," in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, ed. by Paula England, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 25-41 (with B.A. Shelton)
    ---. "The Problem with Social Problems: From Social Constructionism to Critical Theory," in Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory, ed. by James A. Holstein and Gale Miller, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 281 -299
    1994. "Marcuse and Postmodernity," in Marcuse Revisited, ed. by Timothy Lukes and Steven Bokina, Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 27-40
    1996. "Postponing the Postmodern," Cultural Studies, 1 :37-46
    2000. "Books Author Authors, But Reading Writes: A Social Theory of the Text," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 20:3-26. (French translation published as Une theorie sociale du texte: Les livres auteurisent les auteurs, mais la lecture ecrit, in X-Alta, no. 5, octobre 2001, pp. 75-90)
    2001. "Black Like Me: The Discourse of Darkness in Feagin, Derrida, Marx, Festschrift for Joe Feagin," Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming
    2001. "Are Authors Authored? Cultural Politics and Literary Agency in the Age of the Internet," Democracy and Nature, Volume 7, No. 1: 183-203.
    2001. "Writing Social Things," review essay, Qualitative Sociology
    2001. "Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism," Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies
    2002. "Politics in Postmodernity: The Diaspora of Politics and the Homelessness of Political and Social Theory," with Tim Luke, Theoretical Directions in Political Sociology for the 21st Century, Volume 11: 159-195

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
    1973. "Yugoslavian Marxism," The Canadian Forum, June
    ---. "The Aesthetic Politics of Herbert Marcuse," The Canadian Forum, October
    1974. "The Sociologist as Narcissus: The VIIIth World Congress of Sociology," The Canadian Forum, October
    1975. "Upfinished Socialism: Reflections on the USSR," The Canadian Forum, November (under a pseudonym)
    1979. "Mortal Marxism: The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, " The Canadian Forum, November
    1982. "A View of Warren Beatty's Reds," The Canadian Forum, May

Conference Papers, Commentaries and Conference Organizational Activities
    1972. "Of Style and Speech in the New Age," First International Conference on Participation and Self-Management, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
    1973. "The Human Nature of Science and Method," Canadian Sociological Association meetings, Montreal
    1977. "Weber and Marx on New Science and New Technology," Midwestern Political Science Association meetings, Chicago
    1978. section organizer, "Politics and Culture," American Political Science Association meetings, New York City
    1980. discussant on a panel on "Marxism and Social Theory," Canadian Sociological Association meetings, Montreal
    1982. "New Jews in the Authoritarian State," American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco
    1983. discussant on a panel on "The Reindustrialization of New York State," Rockefeller Institute conference, SUNY-Albany
    1984. discussant at a conference on "The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas" Cornell University
    ----. "Left-Wing Scholarship: Current Contradictions of Academic Production," (with Allan Rachlin), American Sociological Association meetings, San Antonio
    1985. "Domesticating Feminism: Women and Men in the Introductory Textbooks," Sociologists for Women in Society meetings, Washington, D.C.
    1986. "Social Science as a Literary Production," Literature and Society group, SUNY Buffalo
    1987. "Fast Capitalism," Southern Sociological Society meetings, Atlanta
    ----. "Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction: Reading Sociology," American Sociological Association meetings, Chicago
    1988. "Critical Theory, Feminism, Poststructuralism," American Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta
    1989. "Rethinking Sexism in Capitalism," American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco
    ----. "The Decline of Discourse in Postmodern Capitalism," conference on "Writing the Social Text," Washington, D.C.
    1990. "Postmodernism and the End of Ideology," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C.
    1993. "Gender, Discourse, Democracy," University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    1997. Chaired panel on critical theory and postmodernism at American Sociological Assocation meetings, Toronto
    1999. Chair panel on critical theory and cybersociety at American Sociological Association meetings, Chicago
    2000. Chaired panel on postmodern theory at American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, D.C.

Departmental Faculty and University Service (SUNY-Buffalo)
-Departmental-
    Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Chair, Preliminary Examination Committee
    Chair, Undergraduate Committee
    Member, Graduate Committee
    Chair, Personnel Committee
    Chair, Faculty-Student Committee
    Chair, Merit Review Committee
    Chair, Executive Committee
    Advisor, all Sociology majors and minors
-Faculty of Social Sciences-
    Member, Policy Committee
    Chair, Undergraduate Grievance Committee
    Member, Budget Committee
-University-
    Member, Faculty Senate
    Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee
    Member, Undergraduate Council
    Senior Member, Undergraduate College
    Chair, Undergraduate Council Subcommittee on Advising
    Chair, Undergraduate College Advising Committee
    Member, Undergraduate College Curriculum committee
    Member, Committee on Integrated Advising
    Chair, Periodic Program Review appraisal team (for Department of Communication)
    Co-Chair, student Who's-Who Award Committee
    Participant, Freshman Orientation
    Participant, Spring Open House
    Participant, faculty/DUAS advising plan
    Speaker, conference on "EOP and the Undergraduate College"
    Keynote Speaker, conference on "Faculty Involvement in Advising"
    Speaker, UB recruitment program for prospective students
    Speaker, Summer Orientation parents workshop
    Co-founder, Graduate Group in Feminist Studies
    Member, Graduate Group in Marxist Studies
    Member, Graduate Group in German Studies
    Mentor, Honors Program
    Instructor, Honors Program Freshman Seminar
    Member, Chair Development Research Institute Steering Committee

Grants and Awards
    Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1974-76
    University of Waterloo Research Grant, 1977 ($400)
    SUNY Research Foundation Award, 1982 ($1900)
    Faculty of Social Sciences Research Development Fund Grant (with B.A. Shelton), 198687 ($1500)
    NYS/UUP Excellence Award, 1990 ($3000)

Courses
-Graduate Courses-
    Development of Classical Sociological Theory
    Contemporary Sociological Theory
    Theory/Feminist Theory/Discourse Theory
    Types of Social Theory
    Independent Study
    Thesis Guidance
-Undergraduate Courses-
    Introduction to Sociology
    Social Problems
    Sociology of Work
    Labor and Society
    Sociology of Women and Men
    Honors Seminar: The Good and Bad Society
    Honors Seminar