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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 |