Professors and Their Politics

Contributors

c o n t r i b u t o r s amy j. binder is a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press, 2004) and Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives (Princeton University Press, 2012, with Kate Wood). clem brooks is Rudy Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. His interests are in the areas of political sociology, political psychology, and quantitative methods. With Jeff Manza, he is the author of Social Cleavages and Political Change (Oxford University Press, 1999), Why Welfare States Persist (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and Whose Rights? (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013). His current projects include research on the politics of the Great Recession and a study of ethnic and racial cues in the formation of policy attitudes. kyle dodson is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California , Merced. His current research focuses on the institutional factors that drive participation in both conventional and unconventional forms of political participation. Some of his recent studies include investigations into changes in social movement activities over time, the consequences of party polarization for voting behavior, and the relevance of foreign policy issues for national elections. ethan fosse is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research focuses on cultural sociology, statistics, and poverty, with a particular emphasis on the quantitative analysis of culture. He has written about culture and politics, social networks, and computational methods . Currently he is working on three interrelated projects: a cross-cultural analysis of political values, using millions of respondents around the world; a systematic study of the cultural aspects of severe poverty, especially among black youths; and a series of theoretical works setting a new agenda for 354 Contributors cultural analysis in the social sciences. He is a junior fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. jeremy freese is a professor of sociology and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He has published numerous articles on the relationship between biology, psychological differences, and divergent social outcomes. He is also co-principal investigator of Time-sharing Experiments in Social Sciences, a project to promote survey experiments in social science. neil gross is a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (Harvard University Press, 2013) and coeditor of Durkheim ’s Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 1883–4 (Cambridge University Press, 2004, with Robert Alun Jones) and Social Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 2011, with Charles Camic and Michèle Lamont). patrick thaddeus jackson is a professor of international relations and associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of International Service at American University. His most recent book, The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations (Routledge, 2010), received the 2012 Yale H. Ferguson award for the book that most advances the vibrancy of international relations as a pluralist field. andrew jewett is an associate professor in the History Department and the Social Studies program at Harvard University and the author of Science, Democracy , and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Other recent writings include “Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons”; “Canonizing Dewey: Columbia Naturalism, Logical Empiricism, and the Idea of American Philosophy”; “The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America”; “The Social Sciences, Philosophy , and the Cultural Turn in the 1930s USDA”; and “Science and Religion in American Thought.” He is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. joseph ma is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, majoring in economics and sociology. He has special interests in social network analysis and computational social science. Contributors 355 thomas medvetz is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His book Think Tanks in America was published in 2012 by the University of Chicago Press. julie a. reuben is Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is...