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:
- Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer N. Zald (eds.). 2005. Social
Movements and Organizations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds.). 2003. Social Movements and Networks:
Relational Approaches to Collective Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 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:
- 2009 (with Cynthia Brandt.) “Assessing the Long-term Effects of
Youth Service: The Puzzling Case of Teach of America.” Social Forces.
- 2008. “Toward a Social Psychology of Social Movements,”
Jon Krosnick (ed.), in New Explorations in Political Psychology. New York: Taylor and
Francis Books.
- 2008 (with Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly.) “Methods for Measuring
Mechanisms.” Qualitative Sociology.
- 2008 (with Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly.) “Progressive Polemics:
Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries.” Qualitative Sociology.
- 2007. “From ‘Relevance’ to Irrelevance: The Curious Impact of
the 1960s on Public Sociology,” in Craig Calhoun (ed.), The ASA at 100. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
- 2007. “Books on the Civil Rights Era.” Bookmarks (May/June issue).
- 2007. “Legacies of Anti-Americanism: A Sociological Perspective,” pp.
251-272 in Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane (eds.), Anti-Americanism. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press.
- 2006. “Collective Action,” in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Press.
- “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.