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| CURRICULUM VITAE | ||
| J. WILLIAM GIBSON | ||
| February 2009 | ||
| Born | February 22, 1952 | |
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| Department of Sociology California State University Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840 |
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| 3210 Kelton Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90034 E-mail: gibson@jameswilliamgibson.com |
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| Education | ||
| 1985 | Ph.D., Yale University | |
| 1975-77 | M.A., M.Phil., Yale University | |
| Visiting Student, Brandeis University | ||
| 1973 | B.A., University of Texas at Austin | |
| Fellowships and Grants | ||
| 2007 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 2006 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 2005 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 2004 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 2003 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 2002 | Sabbatical Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 1999 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 1997 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 1996 | CSULB Foundation Travel Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 1995 | Summer Stipend Award Sabbatical Award 22b or course reduction award |
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| 1990-91 | Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities |
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| 1989 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant in International Peace and Security |
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| 1988 | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Violence and Human Aggression Fellowship |
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| Grant from the Dick Goldensohn Foundation for Investigative Reporting | ||
| 1986 | Grant from the W. H. Ferry Foundation American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid |
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| 1985 | Grant from W. H. Ferry Foundation Grant from Kaltenborn Foundation |
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| 1976-80 | Yale University Fellowships | |
| 1974 | NIMH Pre-Dissertation Research and travel Kingston, Jamaica |
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| 1973-76 | National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship | |
| Awards and Honors | ||
| 2008 | Named a “Journalist of Courage,” for news reports and op-eds about the Ballona Wetlands. Ballona Institute, Marina del Rey, CA., December 12. |
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| “Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Commitment and Assistance in Aquisistion of 600 acres of the Ballona Wetlands,” California Legislature Assembly, December 2. |
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| 2004 | Named a Faculty Fellow, Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology | |
| 1998 | Outstanding Achievement Award for department service, College of Liberal Arts | |
| 1997 | Outstanding Achievement Award for department service, College of Liberal Arts | |
| Center for International Education Curriculum Innovation Award for a new course on the global environmental crisis | ||
| 1996 | Outstanding Achievement Award for speaking engagements, consulting on paramilitary movement, College of Liberal Arts | |
| 1994 | Outstanding Achievement Award for publication of Warrior Dreams, College of Liberal Arts | |
| Sociology Student Association’s Outstanding Professor Award | ||
| 1993 | Sociology Student Association’s Most Outstanding Professor and Most Inspirational Professor Awards | |
| 1989 | Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum "Gender and
Material Culture" Competition
Southern Methodist University Author's Award for The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam |
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| 1973 | B.A. with Honors and Special Honors in Sociology Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Kappa Delta |
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| Professional Association Offices | ||
| 2001-02 | Chair, Awards Committee, Pacific Sociological Association | |
| 2000 | Awards Committee, Pacific Sociological Association | |
| 1991-93 | Treasurer, Peace and War Section, American Sociological Association | |
| 1990 | Council Member, Peace and War Section | |
| 1989 | Associate Editor, Peace and War Section newsletter | |
| 1988 | Nominations Committee, Peace and War Section | |
| Fields of Specialization | ||
| Environmental Sociology Culture Military and Political Sociology Social Theory/ Sociology of Knowledge Qualitative Methods |
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| Teaching Experience | ||
| 1998-2009 | Professor, Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach |
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| 1993-97 | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CSULB | |
| 1991-93 | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, CSULB | |
| 1991 | Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University | |
| 1986-88 | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Methodist University |
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| 1986 | Visiting Lecturer, Communications Studies Program, University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Lecturer, Political Science, UC Irvine |
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| 1981-85 | Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, UCLA | |
| 1980-81 | Visiting Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UCI | |
| 1980 | Lecturer and Guest Fellow, Yale College Seminar Program | |
| 1979 | Acting Instructor, Department of Sociology, Yale University | |
| Publications Books: | ||
| 2009 | A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship With Nature. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt., 320 pp. | |
| 2000 | The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. Reprinted with a new introduction. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 523 pp. | |
| 1994 | Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam
America. New York: Hill and Wang, 357 pp. In paperback as Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. |
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| 1989 | Marking War/Making Peace: Social Foundation of Violent Conflict. Edited with Francesca M. Cancian. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 427 pp. | |
| 1986 | The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 523 pp. In paperback as The Perfect War: The War We Couldn’t Lose and How We Did. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. |
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| Book Chapters: | ||
| 2008 | “Introduction: Post-Vietnam Blues,” In Signs of Life in the USA, edited by Sonia Massik and Jack Soloman. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s. (Reprint from Warrior Dreams) |
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| 2004-06 | “Introduction: Post-Vietnam Blues,” “Old Warriors, New
Warriors,” “Black Widow Women,” “Who is the Enemy and What Does He want?” In Violence and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Kimberly K. Eby, 96-103, 126-129, 146-151. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice- Hall. (Reprints from Warrior Dreams) |
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| 1997 | "Is the Apocalypse Coming? Paramilitary Culture After the Cold War." In The Year 2000: Essays on the End, edited by Charles Strozier and Michael Flynn, 180-189. New York: New York University Press. |
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| 1996 | "The Rise of Paramilitary Cultures in the United States.” In Mapping the Social Landscape, edited by Susan J. Ferguson, 74-82. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. (Reprint from Warrior Dreams) "Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America." In Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology. Edited by Estell Disch, 455-663. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. (Reprint from Warrior Dreams) |
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| 1991 | "The Return of Rambo: War and Culture in the Post- Vietnam Era." In America at Century’s End, edited by Alan Wolfe, 376-395. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| 1989 | "American Paramilitary Culture and the Reconstitution of the Vietnam War." In Vietnam Images: War and Representation. Edited by Jim Aulich and Jeff Walsh, 10-42. New York and London: St. Martin's Press and MacMillan Press. | |
| 1988 | "Operation Phoenix." In Secret Wars, edited by Samuel Lipsman And Robert Manning, 56-73. Vol.25 of The Vietnam Experience Boston: The Boston Publishing Co. for Time-Life Books. | |
| Journal Articles: | ||
| 2000 | “Crises in American War Culture at the Millennium,” Veterans for Peace. Vol. 1, No. 1. (Spring): 1-8, 17-18. |
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| 1997 | “Can the Cultural Re-Enchantment of Nature Help Stop Environmental Destruction?" Negations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Thought Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall): 17-30. |
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| 1996 | "Writing Cross-Over Trade Books." Writing Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall): 4-6. |
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| 1991 | "Becoming the Armed Man." Public Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall): 71-89. |
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| "Redeeming Vietnam: Techno-Thriller Novels of the 1980s." Cultural Critique, No. 19 (Fall): 179-202. |
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| "Personal Weapons and the Constitution of Man as Warrior." disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall): 21-40. |
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| 1989 | Paramilitary Fantasy Culture and the Cosmogonic Mythology of Chaos and Order." Vietnam Generation, Vol. 1, No. 3-4 (Summer-Fall): 1- 23. |
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| 1988 | “Paramilitary Culture" Critical Studies in Mass Communications Vol. 6, No. 1 (March): 90-94. |
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| 1980 | "Network News: Elements of a Theory." Social Text, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall): 88-110. |
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| 1978 | "Independent Jamaica Faces the Outside World: Attitudes of Elites After Twelve Years of Nationhood." International Studies Quarterly 22 (March): 5-48 (with Wendell Bell). |
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| Newspaper and Magazine Articles: | ||
| 2005 | “Cool times at the Trump ANWR,” Los Angeles Times, November 13 | |
| 2004 | "Skeleton's in Playa Vista's Closet," Los Angeles Times, June 20 | |
| "The Risky Business of Cheap Living, Los Angeles Times, March 14 | ||
| 2002 | “Policies that Smell of Death,” Los Angeles Times, October 27 | |
| “We Need a Modern Thomas Paine,” Los Angeles Times, August 4 Reprinted online at Thomas Pain.com and CommonDreams.com in August |
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| “Just How Much Gas Flows Below?,” Los Angeles Times, May 5 | ||
| 2001 | “Make Playa Vista a Park,” Los Angeles Times, June 17: M6 | |
| “The Blast That Finished Off Militia Culture,” Los Angeles Times, May 13: M2 | ||
| “Big Stink: Time to fix L.A.’s overrunning sewers,” LA Weekly, January 19-25. | ||
| “Playa Vista Setback,” LA Weekly, January 12-18. | ||
| 2000 | “Swap This: Sweet deal goes sour for Galanter and her Playa Pals,” LA Weekly, September 8-14. |
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| “Under the Surface: Playa Vista’s earthquake fault and pockets of methane,” LA Weekly, May 12-18. |
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| “Ignoring the Protestors: U’wa’s next stop-Democratic Convention,” LA Weekly, May 5-11. |
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| “Where is Al Gore?: Silence on Colombia’s oil-drilling showdown irks environmentalists,” LA Weekly, March 31-April 6. |
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| “It’s the Environment, Stupid: Earth Day founder wishes Presidential hopefuls would talk more about global warming,” LA Weekly, January 21-27, 2000. |
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| 1999 | “Road to Nowhere: Playa Vista gets $30 million for roads at the expense of buses,” LA Weekly, November 19-25 |
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| “Hold It Right There! City Reconsiders Subsidies for Playa Vista” LA Weekly, July 16-22 |
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| “Playa Vista to Spend Summer in Court,” LA Weekly, June 23-July 1 |
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| “Pave Paradise, Send Taxpayers the Bill,” LA Weekly, March 19-25. |
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| “Hollywood Sprawl,” The Nation, March 1 | ||
| 1998 | “Sierra Club Stands Pat: LA Chapter Votes to Stay With Mainstream,” LA Weekly, December 3. |
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| “Messages From the Marsh: Ballona Displays are Poles Apart.” LA Weekly, September 18-24. |
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| "Brinksmanship at Ballona Creek." LA Weekly, July 10-15. |
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| "Split Decision." LA Weekly, July 17-23. | ||
| 1997 | "Blocking Ballona: Financing in Hand, Playa Vista Still Faces Obstacles." LA Weekly, October 24-30. |
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| "Playa Vista Busted." LA Weekly, June 20-26. | ||
| "He Said, She Said." LA Weekly, April 25- May 1. | ||
| "The Playa Players: Forces Align For and Against Westside's Mega-Project." LA Weekly, February 21-27. |
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| 1996 | "DreamWorks Nightmare: Mega-Project Stumbles in Face of Environmental Action, Market Pressure." LA Weekly, December 6-12. |
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| "Power Struggle: SoCal Edison Gets Zapped by the Coastal Commission." OC Weekly, November 22-28. /td> | ||
| "Critical Mass at San Onofre: Coastal Commission Faces Watershed Decision Over Edison Reactor." LA Weekly, October 4-10. |
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| "A Show of Force: Bolsa Chica Supporters Stand Their Ground Against Koll." OC Weekly, September 27-Oct. 3. |
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| "Coastal Force: Peter Douglas's Job is Saved--at Least for Now." OC Weekly, July 19-25. |
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| "Storm Warnings: Deal to Clean Urban Runoff Leaves Some Environmentalists Cold." LA Weekly, July 19-25. |
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| "A Surprise Seaside Retreat." LA Weekly, July 19-25. | ||
| “Down the Drain: Environmentalists Divided Over Plan to Clean Santa Monica Bay." LA Weekly, July 12-18: 12-16. /td> | ||
| "Bulldozing Ballona." LA Weekly, March 29-April 4. | ||
| 1995 | "Subdividing Paradise." LA Weekly, Nov. 24-30. | |
| "Ill Wind in California: Opponents Say Turbines Along the Pacific Crest Trail Will Ruin 70 Miles of Classic Trail." Backpacker, May. |
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| 1991 | "The Siren Song of Technowar." The Christian Science Monitor, February 26. |
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| 1990 | "Vietnam Revisionism and the Warrior as Mythic Hero." Vietnam Echoes, Vol. 5, October. |
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| "U.S. Navy SEALs." The Texas Observer, August 17. | ||
| "Who is the NRA?" In These Times, March 21-27. | ||
| "Sub Par: Tom Clancy's High-Tech Warriors Surface in the Wake of the Cold War." In These Times, March 21-27. |
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"Assault Rifles, Bad Boys, and the Adventure of Playing War." The Miami Herald and The Orlando Sentinel, | |
| "George Bush: Not a Wimp, But a Rough Rider." Extra! (A publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Vol. 1, No. 5 (March/April). |
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| 1988 | "Rambo Goes Soft: The Guns of Sly Stallone." | |
| In These Times, July 6-19. | ||
| "20th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive: Legend of the Stolen Victory." Extra! , Vol. 2, No. 2 (April). |
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| 1987 | "Tour of Duty: Vietnam War Returns to TV." Extra!, Vol. 1, No. 5 (December). |
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| 1986 | "Should U.S. Fund Contras?" The Dallas Morning News February 1. |
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| 1983 | “Apocalypse Then," an analysis of PBS television series, "Vietnam: A Television History." In These Times, October 5-11. |
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| Book Reviews: | ||
| 2008 | Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, by Laura Browder. American Historical Review. October:1189-1190. |
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| 2004 | The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Gregg Easterbrook. The Dallas Morning News, February 1. | |
| Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano. The Dallas Morning News, January 25. |
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| 2003 | In Praise of Nepotism, by Adam Bellow. The Dallas Morning News, September 7. |
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| A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life, by Todd D. Rakoff. The Dallas Morning News. February 2. |
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| 2002 | Domini on: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully. The Dallas Morning News, December 29. |
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| I Want That! How We All Became Shopper, by Thomas Hine. The Dallas Morning News, December 22. |
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| Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times, by Richard . Mitchell, Jr. American Journal of Sociology. September (108:2) |
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| Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, by Kevin Phillips. The Dallas Morning News, June 30. |
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| 2001 | Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, by Kenneth D. Rose. The Dallas Morning News, December 9. |
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| 2000 | Make Love, Not War, by David Allyn. The Dallas Morning News, May 14. |
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| Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus, by Alan Boye. The Dallas Morning News, April 30. |
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| “Revising Vietnam, Again,” A review essay based on American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War, by David Kaiser. Harper’s Magazine, April. |
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| 1999 | “Expert’s Picks: 1999’s Best Five Books on Place,” The Washington Post Book World, December 5-11. |
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| The Heart of America: Our Landscape, Our Future, by Tim Palmer. The Washington Post Book World, November 21-27. |
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| Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, by Jonathan Weiner. The Dallas Morning News, August 15. |
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| Watching From the Edge of Extinction, by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns. The Washington Post, July 5. |
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| Bone by Bone, by Peter Matthiessen. The Dallas Morning News, June 27. |
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| 1998 | Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case and Conspiracy, by Stephen Jones and Peter Israel. The Washington Post , December 21. |
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| An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America’s Future, by Robert D. Kaplan. The Washington Post Book World, October 18. |
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| Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, by Gary Kinder. LA Weekly, August 14-20. |
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| One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombings, by Richard A. Serrano. The Washington Post, June 25. |
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| Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by E. O. Wilson. The Dallas Morning News, May 24. | ||
| Song for a Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coast and Beneath the Seas, by Carl Safina. The Washington Post, February 23. |
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| The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That is Remaking the Modern World, by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. The Dallas Morning News, February 22. |
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| 1997 | Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men’s Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture, by Michael Schwalbe. Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 21, Number 1 (January): 121-123. |
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| Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning, by Joel Dyer. The Washington Post Book World, September 14. | ||
| Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, by Barbara Ehrenreich. LA Weekly, June 27-July 3. |
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| 1991 | Peace Action in the Eighties: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Sam Marullo and John Lofland. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 20, Number 3 (May). |
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| Review Essay, "Feminist Ideas About Masculinity," American Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March). |
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| The Limits of Air Power by Mark Clodfelter. | ||
| American Historical Review, (February). | ||
| 1990 | John Wayne: Prophet of the American Way of Life by Emmanuel Levy. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 18, No. 4 (July). |
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| 1989 | Putting on Appearances: Gender and Advertising, by Diane Barthel. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 4 (July). |
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| Home-Coming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam, by Bob Green. The Dallas Morning News, April 16. |
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| 1988 | News That Matters: Television and American Opinion, by Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 94, No. 4 (January). |
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| The Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan. The Dallas Morning News, November 27. |
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| 1987 | Brother Enemy: The War After the War , by Nayan Chanda. Social Forces 68 (September). |
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| Consulting | ||
| 1997 | "Paramilitary Culture after the Cold War: Devising Cultural Indicators to Help Screen Paramilitary Warriors From Joining the Military," U. S. Department of Defense--Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC), Monterey, CA, 13 February. After presenting my research on paramilitary culture, I helped this think tank work on the design of a questionnaire to be given to all potential military recruits. The goal of the questionnaire was to identify potential paramilitary extremists and gang members. |
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| 1996 | "Separating the Army From Extremist Groups and Paramilitary Organizations," United States Army Special Forces Command, Group Commanders Conference, Fort Carson, Colorado, 11 March. The Group Commanders Conference is the annual meeting of Special Forces senior officers. They were concerned about protecting their soldiers from recruitment efforts by right-wing extremists. |
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| 1995 | "Recommendations to Reduce Possible Involvements of Active Duty and Former U.S. Army Personnel in Paramilitary Activities," a paper based on my research and consultations with the Psychological Assessment Directorate, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, June 26-27.The psychologists at Psychological Assessment Directorate administer tests to all soldiers applying for U.S. Army Special Forces. I was asked by Special Operations Command to go Fort Bragg to discuss with them possible questions that might help identify paramilitary extremists and to write a report on other ways the military might reduce the influence of far-right extremists within its ranks. |
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| Manuscript and Proposal Reviews: | ||
| 2009 | Social Psychology Quarterly | |
| 2007 | New York University Press | |
| 2005 | Sociological Theory | |
| 2004 | Sociological Theory | |
| 2002 | University of Illinois Press W. W. Norton |
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| 2001 | University of Illinois Press | |
| 2000 | Social Problems Pine Forge Press |
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| 1999 | Mayfield Publishing Co. | |
| 1998 | Basil Blackwell Cambridge University Press Negations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Thought Westview Press |
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| 1997 | New York University Press Symbolic Interaction |
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| 1996 | Anchor Doubleday | |
| 1995 | Program on Peace and International Conflict, John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation University of California Press Cambridge University Press |
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| 1994 | Qualitative Sociology W. W. Norton and Company; City University of New York Research Center |
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| 1991 | Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association |
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| 1990 | American Quarterly National Journal of Sociology Wadsworth Publishing Co. |
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| 1988 | City University of New York Research Center W. W. Norton |
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| Scott, Foresman/Little Brown | ||
| Presentations | ||
| 2007 | “The Perfect War: What Vietnam War First-Person Narratives Can Tell Us about Iraq War Narratives,” Conference on “ Iraq: : Front Line, First Person,” Watson School for International Studies, Brown University. Providence. October 19 |
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| “Nature-Writing and the Consecration of Animals,” American Sociological Association. New York. August 11 |
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| “Making Places Sacred in Order to Save Them,” 13th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Park City, Utah. June 20. |
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| “Sociology and the Literate Public,” Conference on One Hundred and Thirty-Three Years o0f Sociology at Yale—and Today.” New Haven, April 15 |
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| 2006 | “Call of the Wild: The Cultural Enchantment of Nature,” American Sociological Association. Montreal, August 12 |
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| “Bush’s War on the Environment: Business and Conservative Evangelicals Join Forces to Exercise Dominion Over Nature,” 12th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vancouver, B.C. June 7. |
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| “Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Book and Magazine Genres for Public Sociology,” Pacific Sociological Association, Los Angeles, April 21. |
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| 2005 | “Searching for the Good War in Iraq,” American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 14. |
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| “Earth Consciousness: Space Exploration, Gaia, the Greening of American Religion,” Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology, May 8. |
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| 2003 | “Bring’em On: George Bush and the Limits of War Culture,” and “Call of the Wild: The Fight to Re-Enchant Nature.” Yale University, Center for Cultural Sociology, September 11-12. |
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| 2001 | “LA’s Last Thousand Acres: Struggles to Save the Ballona Wetlands from Development,” American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August 21. |
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| “Masculinity and War Culture in Contemporary America,” New Cultural Frontiers Conference, UCLA LeRoy Neiman Center for the Study Of American Society and Culture, May 17. |
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| “Environmental Movements and the Challenge of Greenwashing,” Pacific Sociological Association, March 30, San Francisco |
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| 2000 | “Crises In American War Culture,” Politics of Culture session. Pacific Sociological Association annual Convention. San Diego, March 24. |
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| 1999 | “Warrior Dreams: The Cultural Legacy of Defeat in Vietnam,” University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium, Kingston, Rhode Island, November 16. |
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| “Playa Vista: Developers and Environmentalists Fight for LA’s Last 1000 Acres of Open Space” University of California Santa Barbara sociology department, October 13. |
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| “American War Culture and Masculinity at the Millennium,” Veterans for Peace annual convention, Philadelphia, August 21. |
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| “Marine Conservation as an Advertising Theme in Coastal Development,” Coastal Zone 99, San Diego, July 28. |
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| “Environmental Conflicts and the formation of Personal and Regional Identities,” Friends of Monterey Park Library, Monterey Park, CA., April 28. |
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| 1999 | “Sense Experience as a Form of Knowledge in Environmental Conflicts,” Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, April 18. |
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| 1998 | "The Bolsa Chica War (1978-1997): Suburban Sprawl Versus the Wetland Rangers." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, April 18. |
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| "The Conflict Over Developing the Ballona Wetlands." A talk delivered to the UCLA Institute of the Environment, conference on the Southern California Environment, 3 March |
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| 1997 | “Contradictions in the Warrior Masculine Identity." A paper delivered to the Department of Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, October 17. |
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| "LA's Last 1100 Acres: The War over the Ballona Wetlands and the SKG DreamWorks-Playa Vista Development." A paper delivered to Nature's Workshop: Environmental Change in 20th Century Southern California, California State University, Northridge, September 20. |
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| “Activism is a Way People Affirm that They Belong to a Place." Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 17. |
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| Organizer and Discussant, "California Coastal Commission and the Future of the Golden Shore." California Studies Association, San Francisco, February 8. |
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| 1996 | "California's Coast and Ocean as the Last Wilderness Frontier and Public Commons: Who Will Rule in the 21st Century?" California American Studies Association, Los Angeles, April 27. |
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| "Sacred Places Versus Development: Stopping Environmental Destruction through the Cultural Enchantment of Nature." CSULB, April 22. |
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| "Playa Vista: Theme Park for the 21st Century." Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, March 23. |
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| 1995 | Plenary Speaker on "Paramilitary Culture and the Rise of the Right." The Midwestern Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, University of Chicago Loyola, October 28. |
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| "Paramilitary Culture and the Coming Apocalypse." International Peace and Security Department of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, October 27. |
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| "The Militia Movement." A talk delivered to the Dekalb College Honors Program and Lyceum Series, Atlanta, October 20. |
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| "Malinchismo/Machismo: Gender and Manhood Among Mexicans in the United States." UC San Diego, October 7. |
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| "Oklahoma City and Beyond: Paramilitary Culture After the Cold War." A paper delivered to The Long Shadow: Legacy and Memory of Vietnam 1975-1995, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 14. |
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| "On the 20th Anniversary of the Vietnam War." A talk delivered the Dean's Informal Brown Bag series, College of Liberal Arts, CSULB, May 16. |
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| "Metatheoretical and Methodological Issues in Warrior Dreams.” A talk delivered to a graduate course in cultural sociology in the UCLA Department of Sociology, May 14. |
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| The Discourse of Self-Imposed Restraint and Post-Vietnam Conservative Movements." A paper delivered to the UC Davis Legacies of Vietnam Conference, April 30. |
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| “The Mythology of War in Modern America." A talk delivered to the New Mexico Military Institute," Roswell, April 27. |
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| 1995 | "Paradise Regained?: Animism, Eden, and the Ocean Ecology Movement." A paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, April 7. |
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| 1994 | "Manhood and the Culture of War in Post-Vietnam America." A talk delivered to the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology, March 9. |
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| "Masculinity and the Military." A paper delivered to the Henkels Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, March 1. |
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| "How State Violence and Imaginary War Culture Defeated the American Left," A paper delivered to the Working Group on Violence and the State: Fear, Force, and the Mystical Foundations of Authority, Swarthmore College, December 9. |
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| “Attractions to Paramilitary Culture.” A talk delivered to the Working Group on Attractions to Media Violence, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York City, October 17. |
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| "American Cultural Influences and the Resort to Force." A paper delivered to the Peace and War Section, at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 4. |
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| Organizer, Peace and War Session, annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 15. |
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| 1993 | Commentator, panel on "The Militarization of American Culture." Cold War and American Culture Conference, sponsored by American University and the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 18 March. |
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| Audience Attractions to Warrior Mythology." A paper delivered to the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation conference on Attractions to Media Violence," New York City, November 7-10. |
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| 1991 | "Covert Action in the Reagan Era." A talk delivered to the Political Science Student Association, CSULB, April 20. |
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| "Becoming the Armed Man: Combat Pistol Training and the Seductions of Violence." A paper delivered to the Departments of Peace Studies and Sociology, Syracuse University, March 18. |
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| "With One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs." A talk delivered to the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 4. |
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| “The Mythology of War." A talk delivered to Associated Students, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 29. |
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| 1990 | “War and the Sacred." A talk delivered to the United Ministries Fall Seminars, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, December 12. |
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| "Personal Weapons and the Constitution of Man as Warrior." A paper delivered to the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 12. |
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| “Regeneration Through Violence: Paramilitary Fantasy Culture and Post-Vietnam America." A paper delivered to the Peace Studies Program, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, October 22. |
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| "Cultural Reproduction of War and the Warrior." A talk delivered to the Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 10. |
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| Organizer, World Conflicts Session, annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C., August 11. |
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| “Why Men Play War: Paramilitary Fantasies and the Need to be a Hero.” A talk delivered to Associated Students, CSULB, March 28. |
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| 1990 | "War Culture in Post-Vietnam America." a paper delivered to the Conference on American Society in Transition, City University of New York Graduate Center, March 2. |
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| 1989 | "Men's Romance Novels: The Fantasy of WW III as a Limited War." A paper delivered to the UCLA Focused Research Unit in American Studies Lecture Series, November 16. |
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| "Paramilitary Fantasy Culture and the Constitution of Man as Warrior." A paper delivered to the Winterthur Museum Conference on the Material Culture of Gender and the Gender of Material Culture, Winterthur, Delaware, November 11. |
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| "Men's Romance Novels: The Fantasy of World War III as a Limited War.” A paper delivered to the Department of Communications, University of California, San Diego, November 2. |
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| "Men's Romance Novels: The Fantasy of World War III as a Limited War." A paper delivered to the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 9. |
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| "The Politics of Epistemology and the Warrior's Knowledge: Social Stratification and the Book Corpus on Vietnam." A paper delivered to the annual meeting of the California American Studies Association, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 6. |
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| “Regeneration Through Violence: Paramilitary Culture and Warrior Media Images." A talk and slide show presented to the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, April 13. |
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| “The Theory of Limited War." A paper delivered to the Humanities, Technology and Society Conference, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, April 8. |
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| 1988 | "Arts and Culture" Session Organizer and Presenter. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 28. |
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| "The Soldier of Fortune convention as Festival" and Technowar in Vietnam." Two papers presented to the Vietnam and the West Conference, University of Wales, Swansea, March 24-16. |
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| "Paramilitary Fantasy Culture in the 1980s." A talk delivered to the University Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, November 24. |
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| 1987 | “History of the War Movie Genre." A paper delivered to the Communication Studies Department., University of California, Los Angeles, December 3. |
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| "Paramilitary Fantasy Culture." A talk delivered to the Department of Sociology, American University, Washington, D.C., October 9. |
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| "The Iran-Contra Scandal." A talk delivered to the Departments of Pan-African Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Social Work at California State University, Los Angeles, July 30. |
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| "Vietnam Televised: Network News and the Signs of War." A paper delivered to the annual meeting of the Midwestern Sociological Association, Chicago, April 18. |
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| "The Production Model of War in Vietnam." A paper delivered to the Lamont Fellows of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Columbia University, New York City. 20 March. |
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| 1986 | “American Paramilitary Fantasy Culture." A paper delivered to the Effects of Vietnam on American Culture Conference at Manchester Polytechnic, England, September 6. |
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| The Effects of War Movies and Westerns on Soldiers in Vietnam." A talk delivered to the Social Relations Program at University of California, Irvine, May 6. |
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| "The Structure of Ground Combat in Vietnam." A paper delivered to The Institute for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine, April 10. |
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| 1985 | "The Concept of War Culture." A talk delivered to the staff of The Nation magazine, New York City, October 16. |
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| "Resurrection of the Domino Theory." A paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C. August 24. |
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| "War Culture Since Vietnam." A talk delivered to the Boston Roundtable on Security, the War System, and Peace Mobilization, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, August 23. |
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| "America as War Zone: The Paramilitary Vision," A talk delivered to the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., June 3. |
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| "The Effects of War Movies on Soldiers in Vietnam." A paper presented to the Social Relations Program at the University of California, Irvine, May 6. |
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| 1984 | "U.S. Force Deployment in the Vietnam War and the Current Strategy in Central America." A talk presented to the World Affairs Forum at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, June 10. |
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| 1983 | "Acting it Out: Playing John Wayne and the War in Vietnam." A paper presented to the 7th Annual Conference of the American Imagery Association, San Francisco, October 23. |
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| 1982 | "Recent State Actions to Curtail Freedom of Information." A talk delivered to the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Professional Journalists. September 30. |
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| 2005 | Department of Sociology, Spring and Fall retreats On Student Reading and Writing |
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| 2001-02 | Department of Sociology RTP Committee Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program |
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| 2000-01 | College of Liberal Arts Student Awards Committee Chair, Department of Sociology RTP Committee Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program |
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| 1999-2000 | University Grade Appeals Committee University Academic Appeals Committee College of Liberal Arts Student Awards Committee Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program |
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| 1998-99 | Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program Department of Sociology RTP Committee Department of Sociology Faculty Search Committee |
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| 1997-98 | Vice-Chair, Department of Sociology Chair, College of Liberal Arts Grade Appeals Committee |
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| Co-chair, Department of Sociology Faculty Search Committee Faculty Advisor, Alpha Kappa Delta Honorary Society Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program |
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| 1996-97 | Principal author, sociology department document on Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Faculty Advisor, Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honorary Society "Paramilitary Culture After the Cold War." A talk delivered to the CSULB Corporate Associates, February 26, 1997. Partners for Success Faculty Mentoring Program Member, Sociology Department Search Committee |
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| Member, College of Liberal Arts Grade Appeals Committee Member, Department of Sociology Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee |
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| 1993-95 | Vice-Chair, Department of Sociology Faculty Sponsor, Alpha Kappa Delta sociology honorary society Faculty Sponsor, Sociology Student Association Member of the Sociology Department's Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee Chair (spring 1993 only), Scholarly and Creative Affairs Committee Grants, College of Liberal Arts Member, College of Liberal Arts Grade Appeals Committee |
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| 1992-93 | Member, Scholarly and Creative Affairs Committee, College of Liberal Arts Chair, Special Sessions Committee, Sociology Department Chair, Scholarly and Creative Affairs Committee, Sociology Department |
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| 199-92 | Chair, Special Sessions Committee, Sociology Dept. Faculty Advisor to the Sociology Student Association, |
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| 1986-88 | Faculty Advisor to the Sociology Student Association, Southern Methodist University |
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