Doug McAdam |
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Professor McAdam is currently working on three major research projects. The first is an comprehensive follow-up study of all accepted applicants to the Teach for America (TFA) Program between 1993-1998. The study is primarily interested in assessing the longer-term “civic effects” of the TFA experience. The second project seeks to understand the factors that shape county-level variation in arson attacks on churches in the U.S. between 1996-2001. The specific question of interest is whether a history of racial conflict in the county is related to the burning of African-American churches. Finally, Professor McAdam is collaborating with Professor Rob Sampson (sociology, Harvard) in an ongoing study of neighborhood activism in Chicago between 1970-2005. The goal is to better understand the structural factors and dynamic processes that shape the capacity of neighborhood groups to organize and act on their own behalf. |
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RESEARCH AREAS
Political Sociology and Social Movements.
OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS
Director, Urban Studies Program, Stanford; Faculty affiliate of American Studies Program, Stanford; Faculty affiliate of Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford; Director Emeritus, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books:
- Dynamics of Contention. 2001. Cambridge University Press. (with Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly).
- Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. (2nd Edition). 1999. University of Chicago Press.
- Freedom Summer. 1988. Oxford University Press.
Recent Papers:
- “Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action.” 2005. American Journal of Sociology 111: 673-714 (with Rob Sampson, Heather MacIndoe and Simon Weffer-Elizondo).
- “The War at Home: The Impact of Anti-War Protests, 1965-1973.” 2002. American Sociological Review 67: 696-721.