Jeff Goodwin

Professor of Sociology, New York University

Associated Faculty Member, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Office address, phones, electronic mail address, and web page: Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette Street, Room 4115, New

York, NY 10012-9605; 212-998-8378 (office); 646-298-7797 (mobile); 212-995-4140

(fax); jgoodwin.nyu@gmail.com, jeff.goodwin@nyu.edu; www.jeffgoodwin.net.

Home address and phone: 100 Bleecker Street, Apt. 27E, New York, NY 10012; 212-254-6996.

Date of birth and marital status: January 28, 1958; married (to Renée Steinhagen); one daughter (Naomi).

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2003 to present: Professor of Sociology, New York University.

2009 (Winter-Spring): Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence.

1997 to 2003: Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University.

1991 to 1997: Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University.

1989-1991: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Northwestern University.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Harvard University (Sociology), November 1988.

M.A., Harvard University (Sociology), June 1983.

B.A., Harvard College (Social Studies), June 1980, Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism; political sociology;

comparative and historical sociology; social theory.

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AWARDS

Golden Dozen Outstanding Teaching Award (2010), New York University, for undergraduate

teaching.

Voted “Professor of the Year” by the NYU Department of Sociology’s Graduate Student

Association (GSA), 2009-10, 2005-2006, 1997-1998.

Best scholarly article award, honorable mention, Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Section of the American Sociological Association, 2007, for “A Theory of Categorical

Terrorism,” Social Forces (2006), Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 2027-2046.

American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of

the Discipline Award for a workshop on “Social Movement Strategies: Sources,

Processes, and Outcomes” (with Kenneth Andrews, Gregory Maney, Rachel Kurtz-

Flamenbaum, Ellen Reese, Deana Rohlinger, and Dingxin Zhao), 2006.

Mattei Dogan Award, honorable mention (for best book published in the field of comparative

research), Society for Comparative Research, 2003, for No Other Way Out: States and

Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Outstanding Book Prize, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American

Sociological Association, 2002, for No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary

Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, honorable mention, Eastern Sociological Society, 2002, for No

Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Barrington Moore Prize for the best article in the field of comparative-historical sociology from

the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association, 1999, for

“The Libidinal Constitution of a High-Risk Social Movement: Affectual Ties and

Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946 to 1954.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 62,

No. 1, pp. 53-69.

American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of

the Discipline Award for a miniconference on “Emotions and Social Movements” (with

James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta), 1998-1999.

Best article award in the field of cultural sociology from the Culture Section of the American

Sociological Association, 1995, for Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (1994),

“Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency.” American Journal of

Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 6, pp. 1411-1454.

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American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grant for research on

“The Gender(ing) of Collective Action: The Role of Women in the Huk Rebellion in the

Philippines” (with Vina A. Lanzona), December 1992-December 1993.

New York University Research Challenge Fund Award for research on “The Irish National

Revolution in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective,” September 1992-September

1994.

University Research Grant, Northwestern University, for research on the Huk Rebellion at the

University of the Philippines, Quezon City, June-July 1990.

Doctoral dissertation was one of five finalists for the Council of Graduate Schools/ University

Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award for 1990.

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

Jeff Goodwin (forthcoming), A Theory of Terrorism. This book examines, and attempts to

explain, the decision of various states and political groups to kill—or to refrain from

killing—ordinary civilians in pursuit of their political goals, in a wide variety of contexts.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2015), The Social Movements Reader: Cases and

Concepts, 3rd edition (New York: Wiley Blackwell). A collection of readings on

contentious collective action, including the U.S. civil rights movement, the women’s

movement, the gay and lesbian movement, Occupy Wall Street, and the Arab Spring.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2012), Contention in Context: Political

Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press).

Critically examines the claim that “political opportunities” are important for collective

political action.

Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana Rohlinger, and Jeff Goodwin, editors

(2012), Strategies for Social Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). A

collection of essays on the choice (and outcomes) of different strategies by social

movement leaders and organizations.

Jeff Goodwin, guest editor (2012), Special Issue on Political Violence and Terrorism,

Mobilization, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-98.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2009), The Social Movements Reader: Cases and

Concepts, 2nd edition (New York: Wiley-Blackwell).

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Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2007), The Contexts Reader (New York: W. W.

Norton). A collection of articles and other materials originally published in Contexts

magazine.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2007), Social Movements: Critical Concepts in

Sociology, Volume 1: Crowd Behavior and Psychological Perspectives, Volume 2:

Organization and Infrastructure, Volume 3: Politics and Strategy, Volume 4: Culture

and Emotion (London: Routledge). An extensive collection of classic and contemporary

papers on social movements.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2004), Rethinking Social Movements: Structure,

Culture, and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield). A collection of readings

on current theorizing in the field of social movements, especially political process theory,

and the future of this field.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors (2003), The Social Movements Reader: Cases and

Concepts (New York: Blackwell).

Jeff Goodwin and Ruth Horowitz, guest editors (2002), “Symposium on Methodology in

Qualitative Sociology,” Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 33-128. A special

issue on qualitative methods.

Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta, editors (2001), Passionate Politics:

Emotions and Social Movements (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). This volume

examines the variety of ways in which emotions matter for social movements and

political life generally. Among the topics covered are movement recruitment, internal

dynamics, strategies, and impacts. (Translated into Korean by Hanul Publishing Group

[2012].)

Jeff Goodwin (2001), No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This book develops a comparative and

historical explanation of the emergence, success, and failure of revolutionary movements

in Southeast Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe. (Awarded the Outstanding Book

prize by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American

Sociological Association, 2002; honorable mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award,

Eastern Sociological Society, 2002; honorable mention, Mattei Dogan Award, Society for

Comparative Research, 2003.)

Excerpts from chapter 8 of this book are reprinted as “The East European Revolutions of

1989" in Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies, 3rd edition,

edited by Jack A. Goldstone (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003), pp. 255-61.

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ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REVIEW ESSAYS

Jeff Goodwin (forthcoming), “The Causes of Terrorism.” In The Oxford Handbook on

Terrorism, edited by Erica Chenoweth, Andreas Gofas, Richard English, and Stathis

Kalyvas (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Jeff Goodwin (2017), “The Sociology of Terrorism.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology,

edited by Kathleen Odell Korgen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 407-

415.

Jeff Goodwin and Adaner Usmani (2016), “Social Movements.” In American Governance, Vol.

5, edited by Stephen Schechter, Thomas S. Vontz, Thomas A. Birkland, Mark A. Graber,

and John J. Patrick (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA), pp. 76-80.

Jeff Goodwin and Rene Rojas (2015), “Revolutions and Regime Change.” In The Oxford

Handbook of Social Movements, edited by Donatella dell Porta and Mario Diani (Oxford:

Oxford University Press), pp. 793-804.

Gabriel Hetland and Jeff Goodwin (2013), “The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from

Social Movement Studies.” In Marxism and Social Movements, edited by Colin Barker,

Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Leiden: Brill), pp. 83-102.

Rene Rojas and Jeff Goodwin (2013), “Revolutions.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social

and Political Movements, edited by David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert

Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (Oxford: Blackwell).

Jason Stanley and Jeff Goodwin (2013), “Political Economy and Social Movements.” In The

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by David Snow,

Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (Oxford: Blackwell).

Jeff Goodwin (2013), “Social Movements and Revolutions.” In Jeff Manza et al., The Sociology

Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination (Boston: Pearson), pp. 474-505.

Gregory M. Maney, Kenneth T. Andrews, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger,

and Jeff Goodwin (2012), “An Introduction to Strategies for Social Change.” In

Strategies for Social Change, edited by Gregory M. Maney et al. (Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press), pp. 11-38.

Jeff Goodwin (2012), “Political Violence as Contentious Politics,” Mobilization, Vol. 17, No. 1,

pp. 1-5.

Jeff Goodwin (2012), “Terrorism.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology,

edited by Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), pp.

190-203.

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Jeff Goodwin (2012), “‘Religious Terrorism’ as Ideology.” In Contemporary Debates in

Terrorism, edited by Richard Jackson and Samuel Justin Sinclair (New York: Routledge),

pp. 127-34.

Jeff Goodwin (2012), “Are Protestors Opportunists? Fifty Tests.” In Contention in Context:

Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James

M. Jasper (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), pp. 277-300.

Jeff Goodwin (2011), “Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring,” Swiss Political

Science Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 452-56.

Jeff Goodwin (2011), “El enfoque relacional del terrorismo en Charles Tilly.” In A propósito de

Tilly: Conflicto, poder y acción colectiva, edited by María Jesús Funes (Madrid: Centro

de Investigaciones Sociológicas), pp. 223-30. Reprinted as “Charles Tilly’s Relational

Approach to Terrorism” in Regarding Tilly: Conflict, Power, and Collective Action,

edited by María Jesús Funes (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2016), pp. 221-

228.

Jeff Goodwin (2011), “Terrorism.” In Contention and Trust in Cities and States, edited by

Michael Hanagan and Chris Tilly (New York: Springer), pp. 169-73.

Jeff Goodwin (2009), “The Relational Approach to Terrorism,” Swiss Political Science

Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 387-94.

Jeff Goodwin (2008), “On Terrorism” (a review essay on Mike Davis, Buda’s Wagon: A

Brief History of the Car Bomb [London and New York: Verso, 2007], and Neil J.

Smelser, The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions [Princeton, NJ,

Princeton University Press, 2007]), European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp.

444-54.

Jeff Goodwin and Gabriel Hetland (2008), “Liberation Movements.” In the International

Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., Vol. 7, edited by William A. Darity

(Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan), pp. 431-34.

Jeff Goodwin and Adam Isaiah Green (2008), “Revolutions.” In the Encyclopedia of Violence,

Peace, and Conflict (Volume 3), 2nd edition, edited by Lester Kurtz (Oxford: Elsevier),

pp. 1870-80.

Jeff Goodwin (2008), “Which Side Are We On? NYU’s Full-Time Faculty and the GSOC

Strike.” In The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic

Workplace, edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press), pp. 162-73.

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Jeff Goodwin (2007), “‘The Struggle Made Me a Non-Racialist’: Why There Was So Little

Terrorism in the Antiapartheid Struggle,” Mobilization, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 193-203.

Jeff Goodwin (2006), “How Not to Explain Terrorism” (a review essay on Louise Richardson,

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat [New York:

Random House, 2006]), European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 477-82.

Jeff Goodwin (2006), “What Do We Really Know About (Suicide) Terrorism?” Sociological

Forum, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 315-30.

Jeff Goodwin (2006), “A Theory of Categorical Terrorism,” Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp.

2027-2046. (Honorable mention, best article award, Collective Behavior and Social

Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, 2007.) A revised version

of this article was also published as “Devrimci Terörizmi Anlamak,” in Tarihsel

Sosyoloji: Stratejiler, Sorunsallar, Paradmigmalar, edited by Ferdan Ergut and Ayşen

Uysal (Ankara: Dipnot Yayinlari, 2007), pp. 251-293, and as “Explaining Revolutionary

Terrorism” in Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities,

Globalization, and Modernity, edited by John Foran, David Lane, and Andreja Zivkovic

(London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 199-221.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper (2006), “Emotions and Social Movements.” In Handbook of

the Sociology of Emotions, edited by Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner (New York:

Springer, 2006), pp. 611-35.

Jeff Goodwin (2005), “Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements.” In The Handbook of

Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks, and

Mildred A. Schwartz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 404-22.

Jeff Goodwin (2004), “What Must We Explain to Explain Terrorism?” A review essay on Jessica

Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (New York: Ecco, 2003),

Social Movements Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 259-62.

Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (2003), “Emotional Dimensions of Social

Movements.” In The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A.

Snow, Sarah Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi (New York: Blackwell), pp. 413-32.

Jeff Goodwin (2003), “The Renewal of Socialism and the Decline of Revolution.” In The

Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization, edited by

John Foran (London and New York: Zed Books), pp. 59-72.

Jeff Goodwin and Ruth Horowitz (2002), “The Methodological Strengths and Dilemmas of

Qualitative Sociology,” Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 33-47.

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Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (2001), “Why Emotions Matter.”

Introduction to Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (Chicago:

University of Chicago Press), pp. 1-24.

Jeff Goodwin and Steven Pfaff (2001), “Emotion Work in High-Risk Social Movements:

Managing Fear in the U.S. and East German Civil Rights Movements.” In Passionate

Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp.

282-302.

Jeff Goodwin (2001), “Is the Age of Revolution Over?” In Revolution: International

Dimensions, edited by Mark N. Katz (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press),

pp. 272-283.

Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (2000), “The Return of the Repressed:

The Fall and Rise of Emotions in Social Movement Theory,” Mobilization, Vol. 5, No. 1,

pp. 65-84.

Jeff Goodwin and Adam Green (1999), “Revolutions.” In the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace,

and Conflict (Volume 3), edited by Lester Kurtz (San Diego: Academic Press), pp. 241-

251.

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper (1999), “Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural

Bias of Political Process Theory” (with responses from Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow,

David S. Meyer, Francesca Polletta, and Ruud Koopmans.), Sociological Forum, Vol. 14,

No. 1, pp. 27-54.

Reprinted in Social and Political Movements, edited by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (Sage,

2010).

Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper (1999), “Trouble in Paradigms” (a response to Charles Tilly,

Sidney Tarrow, David S. Meyer, Francesca Polletta, and Ruud Koopmans), Sociological

Forum, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 107-125.

Jeff Goodwin (1998), “Injustice.” In The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, edited by Jack

A. Goldstone (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.), pp. 242-243.

Jeff Goodwin (1997), “The Libidinal Constitution of a High-Risk Social Movement: Affectual

Ties and Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946 to 1954,” American Sociological Review,

Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 53-69. (Awarded the Barrington Moore Prize by the Comparative-

Historical Section of the American Sociological Association for the best article in the

field, 1999.)

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Jeff Goodwin (1997), “State-Centered Approaches to Social Revolutions: Strengths and

Limitations of a Theoretical Tradition.” Chapter 1 in Theorizing Revolutions, edited by

John Foran (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 11-37.

Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (1996), “Symbols, Positions, Objects: Toward a New

Theory of Revolutions and Collective Action,” History and Theory, Vol. 35, pp. 358-374.

Jeff Goodwin (1996), “How to Become a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of

Theda Skocpol” (a review essay on Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions

[Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979]). Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 25, No.

3, pp. 293-295. (Special issue on the ten most influential books of the past 25 years.)

An expanded version of this essay was published in Required Reading: Sociology's Most

Influential Books, edited by Dan Clawson [Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts

Press, 1998].)

Jeff Goodwin (1994), “Toward a New Sociology of Revolutions.” Theory and Society, Vol. 23,

pp. 731-766, and "Rejoinder," pp. 795-797. (Lead article in a special “Symposium on

Sociology of Revolutions.”)

Jeff Goodwin (1994), “Old Regimes and Revolutions in the Second and Third Worlds: A

Comparative Perspective.” Social Science History, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 575-604.

Mustafa Emirbayer and Jeff Goodwin (1994), “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of

Agency.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 6, pp. 1411-1454. (Awarded the

prize for the best article on culture by the Culture Section of the American Sociological

Association, 1995.)

Jeff Goodwin (1994), “What's Right (and Wrong) About Left Media Criticism? Herman and

Chomsky's Propaganda Model” (a review essay on the work of Edward S. Herman and

Noam Chomsky). Sociological Forum, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 101-111.

Jeff Goodwin (1994), “Revolutionary Movements in Central America: A Comparative

Analysis.” In The State: Critical Concepts, edited by John A. Hall (London and New

York: Routledge), Vol. 3, pp. 60-102. Originally published as Working Paper No. 7,

Center for Research on Politics and Social Organization (CROPSO), Harvard University,

1988.

John Foran and Jeff Goodwin (1993), “Revolutionary Outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua: Coalition

Fragmentation, War, and the Limits of Social Transformation.” Theory and Society, Vol.

22, pp. 209-247.

Excerpts reprinted in Revolution: Critical Concepts in Political Science, edited by

Rosemary O’Kane (London: Routledge, 2000), and in Revolutions: Theoretical,

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Comparative, and Historical Studies, Third Edition, edited by Jack A. Goldstone

(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003), pp. 107-20.

Jeff Goodwin (1990), “The Limits of ‘Radical Democracy’” (a review essay on Samuel Bowles

and Herbert Gintis, Democracy and Capitalism [New York: Basic Books, 1986]).

Socialist Review, No. 90/2, pp. 131-144.

Jeff Goodwin and Theda Skocpol (1989), “Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third

World.” Politics and Society, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 489-509.

Reprinted in Theda Skocpol, Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1994); in Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation,

edited by Roberta Garner (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000); and in

Revolution: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. 4, edited by Rosemary H. T.

O’Kane (London: Routledge, 2000).

Jeff Goodwin (1989), “Colonialism and Revolution in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis.”

In Revolution in the World-System, edited by Terry Boswell (Westport, Conn.:

Greenwood, 1989), pp. 59-78.

Reprinted in Revolution: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. 4, edited by

Rosemary H. T. O’Kane (London: Routledge, 2000).

BOOK REVIEWS AND SHORT PIECES

“Some Prickly Thoughts on ‘Emotions in Motion,’” posted at Mobilizing Ideas, December 20,

2012, on-line at http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/some-prickly-

thoughts-on-emotions-in-motion/#more-4437.

“For a Relational Approach to Contentious Strategies, or ‘It Takes Two to Tango,’” posted at

Mobilizing Ideas, May 1, 2012, on-line at http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/

05/01/for-a-relational-approach-to-contentious-strategies-or-it-takes-two-to-tango/.

“Where Did Capitalism Go?” Critical Mass Bulletin, Newsletter of the Section on Collective

Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association (Spring 2012), pp.

1, 4-8.

“Occupy the Media,” posted at Mobilizing Ideas, January 19, 2012, on-line at

http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/occupy-the-media.

“Coalition of the Disenchanted,” Le Monde diplomatique (November 2011), English edition and

on-line at http://mondediplo.com/2011/11/06ows.

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“Occupy Wall Street: The Challenge Ahead,” Critical Mass Bulletin, Newsletter of the Section

on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association (Fall

2011), pp. 1, 3-6; on-line at http://www2.asanet.org/sectioncbsm/362%20critical%

20mass.pdf. Reprinted by Labor Standard; on-line at http://www.laborstandard.org/

Occupy_Wall_ Street_Challenges_Ahead.html.

“Fort Hood Reminder of Potential Threat to U.S.” (interview). IA [International Affairs] Forum

(Winter 2009/2010), pp. 139-43.

Commentary on Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of

Religious Violence (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 3rd edition, 2003),

Critical Studies on Terrorism (August 2009), Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 335-37.

“Youth Will Be Served” [on the 2008 U.S. presidential election]. Contexts (Winter 2009),

Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 59-60.

Review of Neil J. Smelser, The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), Contemporary Sociology (January

2009), Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 39-40. Reprinted in Arabic in Idafat: The Arab Journal of

Sociology.

Review of Alan B. Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of

Terrorism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), and Marc Sageman,

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century (Philadelphia: University

of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), Perspectives on Politics (December 2008), Vol. 6, No. 4,

pp. 867-69.

Review (with Julie Stewart) of Ronald R. Aminzade et al., Silence and Voice in the Study of

Contentious Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Contemporary

Sociology (May 2003), Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 351-52.

Review of Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of

Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000),

American Journal of Sociology (November 2001), Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 845-47.

Review of Randall Collins, Macrohistory: Essays in the Sociology of the Long Run (Stanford,

CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), Contemporary Sociology (January 2001), Vol. 30,

No. 1, pp. 72-73.

Entries on “Daniel Ortega,” “Augusto Cesar Sandino,” “Pancho Villa,” and “Emiliano Zapata”

in the Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Volume 2: Leaders, Movements, and Concepts,

edited by Alexander J. Motyl (San Diego: Academic Press, 2000), pp. 386, 457, 572-73,

601.

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“Size Does Matter (and Nine Other Tips for Effective Protest),” Mother Jones magazine (March-

April 1999), pp. 58-59. Reprinted in Annual Editions: American Government, Thirtieth

edition, edited by Bruce Stinebrickner (Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2000), and in

Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, edited by Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee (Mountain

View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 2001).

Review of Forrest D. Colburn, The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries (Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 1994), Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1995), Vol. 110, No.

3, pp. 490-92.

“A Case for Big Case Comparison.” Comparative and Historical Sociology (newsletter of the

section on Historical and Comparative Sociology of the ASA) (Fall/Winter 1995),Vol. 8,

Nos. 1-2, pp. 1, 6.

Review of Steve Bruce, The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1994), Contemporary Sociology (September 1995), Vol. 24, No.

6, pp. 614-15.

Review of Eric Selbin, Modern Latin American Revolutions (Boulder and Oxford: Westview

Press, 1993), Journal of Latin American Studies (October 1994), Vol. 26, pp. 778-79.

Review of Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Berkeley and Los

Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), Contemporary Sociology (January 1994),

Vol 23, No. 1, pp. 71-72.

“Networks, Culture and Agency” (with Mustafa Emirbayer). Comparative and Historical

Sociology (newsletter of the section on Historical and Comparative Sociology of the

ASA) (Winter 1994), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1, 3-4.

Review of Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), American Journal of Sociology

(January 1993), Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 922-24.

Review of Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century, edited by Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert

Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), Contemporary Sociology

(November 1992), Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 804-05.

Review of Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russia and Iran

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), American Journal of Sociology

(January 1992), Vol. 97, No. 4, pp. 1141-42.

Review of Joel S. Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University

Press, 1988), Economic Development and Cultural Change (October 1991), Vol. 40, No.

1, pp. 217-20.

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Review of Pierre Birnbaum, States and Collective Action: The European Experience

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), American Journal of Sociology (May

1990), Vol. 95, No. 6, pp. 1607-09.

Entries on Alexis de Tocqueville and Talcott Parsons in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of

Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (London:

Macmillan, 1987).

“Ordinary People” (a review of Jenny Pearce, Promised Land: Peasant Rebellion in

Chalatenango, El Salvador [London: Latin America Bureau, 1986]). Socialist Review

(September-October 1987), No. 95, pp. 151-55.

Review of Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, edited by Theda Skocpol (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1984), Science and Society (Fall 1986), Vol. 50, No. 3, pp.

378-80.

“Labor Movements Under Authoritarian Regimes” (with J. Samuel Valenzuela). Center for

European Studies Monograph No. 5, Harvard University, 1983.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES [since 2005; a

complete list is available on request]

[*invited lectures or presentations]

2016: “What Can Comparative and Historical Analysis Tell Us About the Causes of

Terrorism”: paper presented at the Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the

American Sociological Association (hereafter, ASA) Mini-Conference, Seattle, August

2016; Discussant, panel on a thematic session, “When Changing the Conversation

Matters: Lessons from Southern Europe,” ASA annual meeting, Seattle, August 2016;

Discussant, invited session on “Whither Social Movement Theory?” ASA annual

meeting, Seattle, August 2016; Panelist, plenary panel on “Social Movements, Refugees

and Borders,” Preconference on “Social Movements in the 2010s,” Research Committees

47 & 48, 3rd International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Vienna, July

2016; “Against Radicalization”: paper presented at the 3rd International Sociological

Association Forum of Sociology, Vienna, July 2016; “ISIL as a Transnational Social

Movement”: paper presented at the 3rd International Sociological Association Forum of

Sociology, Vienna, July 2016; “Why Movements Succeed or Fail”: paper presented at

Cursos de Verano 2016, workshop on “Results and Consequences of Social Movements

and Cycles of Protest,” El Escorial, Spain, July 2016; “Revisiting the Causes of

Terrorism”: paper presented at the Comparative Research Workshop, Department of

Sociology, Yale University, 5 April 2016*; “When Is Terrorism Justified?”: paper

presented at the 21st International Conference on Popular Protest and Alternative Futures,

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Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, March 2015; “Is the Concept of

Terrorism Useful? And What Could It Be Useful For?”: paper presented at the Sociology

Department Colloquium, Northwestern University, 12 May 2016.*

2015: Discussant, author-meets-critics panel on Jake Rosenfeld’s What Unions No Longer Do

(Harvard, 2014), annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Baltimore,

November 2015; “Preemptive Contention: Union-Avoidance Tactics by U.S.

Corporations” (coauthored by Jane McAlevey): paper presented at the Historical

Materialism 2015 conference, London, November 2015, and at the Collective Behavior &

Social Movements section of the ASA Workshop, Northwestern University, Chicago,

August 2015; “Armies and the Art of Revolution Revisited”: paper presented at the 22nd

International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Paris, July

2015; Discussant, panel on “Contemporary Repertoires of Collective Action,” 22nd

International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, July 2015; “Political Responses to the

Great Recession in the United States”: keynote presentation at conference on “Citizens’

Resilience in Times of Crises,” LIVEWHAT Summer School, Escuola Normale

Superiore, Florence, Italy, July 2015*; “Problems in the Study of State Terrorism: The

Question of Intent”: keynote presentation at “Understanding Conflict,” University of

Bath, June 2015*; “The U.S. Middle Class in Crisis”: presentation at a panel in honor of

Randy Martin, Left Forum 2015, John Jay College, New York City, May 2015*; “Why

Movements Succeed or Fail: A Theoretical Framework”: keynote address at the

European Sociological Association (ESA) Midterm Conference of the Social Movements

Research Network, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, February 2015*, and at the

Historical Materialism conference, New York University, March 2015; “The Strange

Disappearance of the Working Class from Social Movement Studies”: paper presented at

the 20th International Conference on Popular Protest and Alternative Futures, Manchester

Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, March-April 2015, at the University of

Pittsburgh, Sociology Department Colloquium,* April 13, 2015, and at COSMOS, Centre

on Social Movement Studies, European University Institute, Florence, May 13, 2015.*

2014: Panelist, “Studying Contentious Politics and Social Movements after the Arab

Uprisings,” annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA),

Washington, DC, November 2014*; “The Crisis in Numbers”: paper presented at a panel

on “The Crisis of Labor in the United States” at the 11th Annual Historical

Materialism Conference, London, November 2014; “Explaining (State) Terrorism”: paper

presented at a conference on “Terrorism Research: Past, Present and Future,” Center for

the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland,

September 2014*; “A Radical Critique of the Radicalization Perspective”: paper

presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the ASA, San Francisco, August 2014, and at the

19th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester

Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, April 2014; Discussant, panel on “Social

Movements, Emotions and Motivation,” 2014 ASA meeting, San Francisco, August

2014*; “U.S. Drone Warfare as State Terrorism”: paper presented at a mini-conference

on “Conflict—War—Peace—Security,” Peace, War & Social Conflict section of the

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ASA, Berkeley, California, August 2014; “Occupy Wall Street and 15M in Comparative

and Theoretical Perspective” (with Eduardo Romanos): paper presented at the 18th

World Congress of the International Sociological Association (hereafter, ISA),

Yokohama, Japan, July 2014; Discussant, panel on “Players and Arenas: Strategic

Dynamics of Politics and Protest,” 18th World Congress of the ISA, Yokohama, Japan,

July 2014*; “The New Anti-Capitalist Movements: Occupy and 15M in Comparative

Perspective” (with Eduardo Romanos): paper presented at the conference on “The Future

of Democracy After Neoliberalism: Social Movements in a Globalizing World,”

University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, July 2014; “Understanding Terrorism:

Building Upon Tilly’s Relational Approach”: paper presented at El Colegio de México,

conference on Sociology and History in the Work of Charles Tilly, Mexico City, May

2014*; Organizer and discussant, author-meets-critics panel on Lisa Stampnitzky’s

Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism” (Cambridge, 2013), annual

meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, February 2014.

2013: “Understanding Al Qaeda: A Critique of the Radicalization Perspective”: paper presented

at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology Colloquium Series,

December 2013,* and at the Comparative Politics workshop, Department of Political

Science, Yale University, December 2013*; “The Rise and Fall of Occupy Wall Street”:

paper presented at the 10th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London,

November 2013, and at Cursos de Verano 2013, workshop on “Social Movements and

the New International Wave of Indignation,” El Escorial, Spain, July

2013*; Discussant, panel discussion of Neil Davidson’s How Revolutionary Were the

Bourgeois Revolutions? (Haymarket, 2012), Historical Materialism Conference, New

York University, April 2013; discussant, panel discussion of Andreas Wimmer’s Waves

of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World

(Cambridge, 2013), annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalism,

Columbia University, April 2013; “How Kings Survived the Arab Spring”: paper

presented at the Delhi Historical Materialism Conference, New Delhi, April 2013.

2012: Discussant, panels on “Social Movement Theory: What Is To Be Done?” and

“Nonviolence in the Arab Spring,” at the 2012 annual meeting of the ASA, Denver,

August 2012;* “Understanding Occupy Wall Street,” keynote lecture, 4th Annual Student

Peace Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, April 2012;* Discussant, panel on

“Memory in Movement: Translating and Re-imagining Social Relations,” 5th Annual

Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, New School for Social Research, April 2012;*

Discussant, panel on “Participatory Democracy at the Grassroots,” conference on “The

Port Huron Statement @ 50,” New York University, April 2012;* “Revolution and

Counter-revolution in the Arab Spring of 2011”: Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished

Visiting Scholar Lecture, Rollins College, Florida, March 2012;* “Terrorism as a

Strategy of Contention,” paper presentation; organizer and discussant, panel on

“Sociological Perspectives on the Arab Spring” (special Presidential session); discussant,

panel on Geoffrey Pleyer’s Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age

(Polity, 2010); discussant, panel on “Organizational Deviance and Failure,” Eastern

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Sociological Society (hereafter, ESS) annual meeting, New York City, February 2012;

“Social-Movement Theory Today: An Insider’s Critique,” paper presented at the Politics

and Protest Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, February 2012.

2011: “Failing the ‘Truman Test’: How Scholars and Pundits Misunderstand Terrorism”: paper

presented at the Puck Seminar, NYU Sociology Department, January 2011*; colloquium

on “Violence, Terror, and Radicalism,” Sorbonne, Paris, June 2011; “A Theory of

Terrorism”: paper presented at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris,

June 2011; Discussant, panel on “Legacies and Extensions of Charles Tilly,” annual

meeting of the American Sociological Association (hereafter, ASA), Las Vegas, August

2011; Discussant, panel on Geoffrey Pleyer’s Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in

the Global Age (Polity, 2010), Left Forum, Pace University, New York City, March

2011; “Reform and Revolution in the Arab Spring”: paper presented at the 16th

International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester

Metropolitan University, March 2011, at the pre-ASA conference on “Making

Connections: Movements and Research in a Global Context,” Las Vegas, August 2012,

and at the 8th Historical Materialism Annual Conference, London, November 2011.

2010: “A Theory of Terrorism”: paper presented at the Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU,

September 2010*; Lehigh University Sociology Department, September 2010*; Russell

Sage Foundation, October 2010*; Cornell University Sociology Department, November

2010*; UCLA, Comparative Social Analysis Seminar, December 2010*; University of

California at Irvine Sociology Department, December 2010*; Discussant, panels on

“Putting Culture in Its Place in Comparative-Historical Sociology” and “Putting Culture

in Its Place in Social Movement Studies,” annual meeting of the ASA, Atlanta, GA,

August 2010; Discussant, authors-meet-critics panel on Randall Collins, Violence: A

Micro-Sociological View (Princeton, 2009), and Michel Wieviorka, Violence: A New

Approach (Sage, 2009), 17th World Congress of the ISA, Goteborg, Sweden, July 2010*;

Discussant, “The Future of State and Insurgent Terrorism” (two panels), 17th World

Congress of the ISA, Göteborg, Sweden, July 2010; “Highest-Risk Activism: The Case

of Palestinian Suicide Bombers”: paper presented at the annual meeting of the ESS,

Boston, MA, March 2010; “An Integrated Theory of State and Insurgent Terrorism”:

paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular

Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2010.

2009: “Why Terror?”: paper presented at the Juan March Institute, Madrid, October 2009,* and

at Rutgers University, Department of Sociology Colloquium, October 2009*; “The

Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies” (with Gabriel

Hetland): paper presented at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology

Colloquium, November 2009,* at the 2009 annual meeting of the ASA, San Francisco,

August 2009, at the miniconference on “Comparing Past and Present,” sponsored by the

Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the ASA, Berkeley, 2009, at the

Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, May 2006,*

and at the 14th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,

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Manchester Metropolitan University, April 2009; “Killing Civilians: Incentives and

Disincentives”: paper presented at the workshop on “‘Exporting Terror’, ‘Exporting

Democracy’: Assumptions of Irrationality/Rationality in International Security,” Free

University of Bolzano, Italy, June 2009*; “The Corporatization of the University and

Graduate-Student Unionization in the U.S.”: presentation at the workshop on “Student

Movements/Youth Movements: A Historical and Cross-National Perspective,” European

University Institute, Florence, May 2009*; “A Theory of Terrorism”: paper presented at

the workshop on Developments in the Analysis of Collective Action, Department of

Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, May 2009,* at the University

of Rome “La Sapienza,” Faculty of Sociology, May 2009,* and at the European

University of Tirana, Albania, Institute of Political and Social Studies, May 2009*;

“Terrorism and Total War: Political and Moral Issues”: paper presented at the

International Conference on Politics and History, European University of Tirana,

Albania, May 2009*; “Charles Tilly’s Relational Approach to Terrorism”: paper

presented at the Tribute to Charles Tilly: Conflict, Power and Collective Action,

Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Nacional de Educación a

Distancia, Madrid, 7-8 May; Instructor, 2-day short-intensive course (SIC) on social

movement theory, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), University of

Amsterdam, 19-20 February, 2009*; Panelist/discussant at the Belfast International

Terrorism Workshop, Queen’s University, Belfast, 16-17 January, 2009.*

2008: Discussant at a roundtable discussion of Approaches and Methodologies in the Social

Sciences, edited by Donatella della Porta and Michael Keating (Cambridge University

Press, 2008), European University Institute, Florence, October 2008*; “The Rise and Fall

of Terrorism: The Case of the Irish Republican Army” (with Michael A. McCarthy and

Grace Yukich): paper presented at the 2008 annual ASA meeting, Boston, MA, August

2008, at the Contentious Politics Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, April

2008, at the 13th International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,

Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2008, and at the Politics, Power, and Protest

(PPP) workshop, New York University, March 2008; “Is Terrorism a Viable Path of

Resistance for Labor?”: paper presented at the Thematic Session, “Paths of Resistance:

Work Regimes and Global Protest,” 2008 ASA meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008*;

“Why Do Some Rebels Become Terrorists?”: colloquium presentation, Department of

Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, February 2008*; “Theorizing

Terrorism”: presentation at the research group on Political Violence, European University

Institute, Florence, Italy, January 2008.*

2007: Discussant for Special Session on “Revolutions and Democracy,” 2007 annual ASA

meeting, New York, NY, August 2007*; “Choosing and Eschewing Terrorism”: paper

presented at the Sociology Department Colloquium, Northwestern University, Evanston,

IL, April 2007, at the Comparative Politics Colloquium, Department of Political Science,

University of Chicago, Chicago, April 2007, and at the New School for Social Research

Psychology Society conference on Ethnicity, Identity, and Conflict, New York City,

April 2007*; “Case Selection in Comparative-Historical Research on Terrorism”:

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presentation at the Workshop of the Program in Comparative and Historical Social

Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2007*; Discussant on Author-

Meets-Critics panel on Stathis N. Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War

(Cambridge University Press, 2006), 2007 World Convention of the Association for the

Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York City, April 2007.*

2006: “Revolutionary Violence”: paper presented at the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on

Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, December 2006*; Presentation on Contexts

magazine, forum titled Can Academics Reach the Public: A Conversation about Media

and Scholarship, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, New

York, December 2006*; “What Is Terrorism?”: presentation at conference on Terrorism

and the University, John Jay College, City University of New York, New York City,

November 2006*; “The Logic of Terrorism”: paper presented at the 16th World Congress

of the ISA, Durban, South Africa, July 2006, and the conference on “Contentious Politics

and Social Movements in the 21st Century,” Panteion University, Athens, Greece, May

2006; “The Contexts Magazine Experiment”: paper presented at the ISA World Congress,

Durban, South Africa, July 2006; “The Mechanisms of Revolution”: presentation at the

Society Project Institute, “Russian Debates” program, Moscow, Russia, June 2006.*

2005: “What Do We Really Know About (Suicide) Terrorism?”: paper presented at Purdue

University, Department of Sociology, November 2005*; “Sociology for the Masses?

Competing Visions for Contexts Magazine”: presentation at the Centennial Session on

“Envisioning Public Sociology in the 21st Century,” 2005 ASA meeting, Philadelphia,

August 2005*; Discussant for panel on “Political Violence and Terrorism: Comparative

Perspectives,” 2005 ASA meeting, Philadelphia, August 2005; “Can Contexts Magazine

Make a Difference.” Presentation at the Presidential Session on “Public Sociology: Work

That Makes a Difference,” 2005 annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association

(hereafter, PSA), Portland, Oregon, April 2005*; Presentation at the panel on “How to

Get Published: Meet the Editors,” 2005 PSA meeting, Portland, Oregon, April 2005*;

“Understanding Revolutionary Terrorism.” Paper presented at the Fifth International

History Congress, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, October 2005, and

at the conference on “Revolution, Class and Modernity,” King’s College, Cambridge,

April 2005; Discussant on Author-Meets-Critics panel on The 9/11 Commission Report:

Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

(Norton, 2004), 2005 annual meeting of the ESS, Washington, DC, March 2005.*

UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

NYU Sociology Department: Member, Executive Advisory Committee (2006-07, 2009-11);

Director of Graduate Studies (1999-2002); Graduate Student Admissions Committee

(1991-94, 1995-98, 2010-11, 2011-12); Faculty Recruitment Committee (1991-92, 1992-

93, 1996-97, 1999-2002); Faculty Salary Recommendations Committee (1992, 1994-97,

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2000, 2004); Co-convenor, workshops on Politics, Power, and Protest (1991-2008) and

Economic and Political Sociology (2009-present).

New York University: Faculty Senator (elected for 2013-2016 term); elected member,

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC) (1996-99; chair, 1996-98); UCC

representative on the FAS Advisory Committee on Policy and Planning (P&P), 1996-98;

faculty member, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1991 to present);

faculty associate, American Studies program (2001-2006); co-organizer, Faculty

Colloquium on Social Movements (2001-2002); co-organizer, Faculty Colloquium on

Intellectuals, Politics, and Society (1992-1995).

Professional/organizational memberships: American Sociological Association (1985 to

present), Eastern Sociological Society (1991-present), Pacific Sociological Association

(1996-present), Latin American Studies Association (1987 to present), American Political

Science Association (1989 to present), Academy of Political Science (1989 to present),

Society for the Study of Social Problems (1994 to present), International Visual

Sociology Association (1998 to present), Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice

(SAWSJ) (1998 to present), American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

(2000 to present).

Referee/reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociological

Theory, Theory and Society, American Political Science Review, Mobilization,

Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, American Journal of Political Science,

Political Power and Social Theory (annual), Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Harry

Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Blackwell Publishing, University of Chicago Press,

Harvard University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Oxford University Press,

Princeton University Press, University of Minnesota Press, HarperCollins College

Publishers, Prentice Hall.

Conferences organized: “Movement Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes” (with Greg

Maney et al.), Hofstra University, August 2007, workshop sponsored by the ASA section

on Collective Behavior and Social Movements; coorganizer, "Public Views of the

Private, Private Views of the Public," 2007 annual conference of the International Visual

Sociology Association (IVSA), New York University, New York, NY, August 2007;

“Authority in Contention: Interdisciplinary Approaches” (with Daniel Cress, Ann

Mische, and Daniel J. Myers), University of Notre Dame, August 2002, workshop

sponsored by the ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements; “Social

Movements and New Social Communities: North/South Globalizations” (with Henri

Lustiger-Thaler), New York University, April 2001, sponsored by the International

Sociological Association; “The Sociology of Islamic Social Movements” (with Craig

Calhoun and Emma Naughton), New York University, February 2000, funded in part

with an ASA/NSF grant; “Emotions and Social Movements” (with James Jasper and

Francesca Polletta), New York University, February 1999, funded in part with an

ASA/NSF grant.

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Panels/roundtables organized: Panel on “Violent versus Nonviolent Strategies by Movements

and States” (with Fabian Virchow), at the 18th World Congress of the ISA, Yokohama,

Japan, July 2014; Author-meets-critics panel on Lisa Stampnitzky’s Disciplining

Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism” (Cambridge, 2013), annual meeting of the

Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, February 2014; panel on “What Can Activists

Learn from Social Movement Scholarship?” at the Left Forum, Pace University, New

York, June 2013; panel on “Social Movement Theory: What Is To Be Done?” at the 2012

annual meeting of the ASA, Denver, August 2012; panels on “Putting Culture in Its Place

in Comparative-Historical Sociology” and “Putting Culture in Its Place in Social

Movement Studies,” 2010 annual meeting of the ASA, Atlanta, GA, August 2010; “The

Future of State and Insurgent Terrorism” (two panels), 17th World Congress of the ISA,

Göteborg, Sweden, July 2010; “Mass Murder: What Causes It? Can It Be Stopped? A

Contexts Forum,” Thematic Session, 2006 ASA meeting, Montreal, August 2006;

“Democracy and Development in the Global South,” Invited Roundtable Discussion,

Political Sociology Section, 2006 ASA meeting, Montreal, August 2006; Presidential

Session: “Public Sociology: Work That Makes a Difference,” 2005 meeting of the Pacific

Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon; Author-meets-critics panels, 2003 meeting

of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia; Political Sociology roundtables, 2002

meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago; “How the Past Shapes the

Present,” Comparative-Historical Sociology panel, 2000 meeting of the ASA,

Washington, DC; “Art or Science? Assessing Qualitative Sociology,” 2000 meeting of

the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore; “Emotions and Social Movements” (with

Jim Jasper and Francesca Polletta), Workshop on Social Movements and Emotions,

University of California at Davis, August 1998; “Opportunistic Protest? Political

Opportunities and Social Movements,” 1998 meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society,

Philadelphia; Comparative-Historical Sociology roundtables, 1996 meeting of the ASA,

New York City; conference roundtables, 1996 meeting of the Eastern Sociological

Society, Boston.

Editorial Board, Journal of Resistance Studies (2015-present).

Board of Advisors, Cosmos: The Centre for Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale

Superiore, Florence (2012-present).

Member, Scientific Board, New Cultural Frontiers, an online sociological review,

www.newculturalfrontiers.org (2010-present).

Member, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Committee of the ASA (2009-11).

Executive coeditor (with James M. Jasper) of Contexts, the ASA’s magazine for general

readers (2004-2007).

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Chair, Barrington Moore Prize Committee, 1997-98 (for the best book in comparative and

historical sociology), Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the ASA; chair,

Best Graduate Student Paper Award committee, 2010-11, Collective Behavior and Social

Movements section of the ASA; member, Charles Tilly Award Committee, 2011-12 (for

the best book in collective behavior and social movements), Collective Behavior and

Social Movements section of the ASA.

Coeditor (with Ruth Braunstein, Russell Ferri, Michael McCarthy, Jonah Birch, and Naima

Brown), In Critical Solidarity, newsletter of the Labor and Labor Movements section of

the ASA (2007-2012).

Advisory editor (on Social Movements/Collective Behavior), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Sociology, edited by George Ritzer (2004-2005).

Secretary (elective office), NYU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors

(AAUP), 2000-2002 (acting chair, 2001-2002).

Associate editor, Visual Studies (2002-2004).

Book review editor, Sociological Forum (1999-2004).

ELECTIVE OFFICES

Executive board member, Research Committee 47, Social Classes and Social Movements,

International Sociological Association, 2002-present (reelected in 2010).

Chair, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the ASA, 2011-2012; chair,

Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the ASA, 2004-2005.

Executive committee member, Eastern Sociological Society, 2002-2005.

Council member, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the ASA, 2004-2006;

Political Sociology section of the ASA, 2002-2004; Comparative and Historical

Sociology section of the ASA, 1998-2000.

Executive board member, International Visual Sociology Association, 2000-2002.

Workshop committee, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the ASA,

2001-2003.

Last updated: July 4, 2017