Aldon Douglas Morris Curriculum Vitae, 2018
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Aldon Douglas Morris Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Office: Department of sociology Northwestern University 1810 Chicago Avenue Evanston, Illinois 60208 Phone: (847) 491-3448 Fax: (847) 491-9907 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 1980 Ph.D. (Sociology), State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 1974-1977 M.A. (Sociology), State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 1972-1974 B.A. (Cum Laude) (Sociology), Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois 1968-1972 A.A. (Sociology), Olive-Harvey College, Chicago, Illinois PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2007- Leon Forrest Professorship of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 2007-2008 Interim Dean, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 2003-2007 Associate Dean for Faculty, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 2002-2005 Director, Asian American Studies Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1992- Professor, Department of Sociology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1992-1997 Chair, Department of Sociology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1988-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1987-1988 Associate Chair, Department of Sociology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1986-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1980-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1977-1978 Instructor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York TEACHING and RESEARCH INTERESTS Social Movements Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois Sociological Theory Political Sociology American Society Social Inequality Race Religion CURRENT RESEARCH My book, The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, published August 2015, by the University of California Press is continuing to have a huge influence in sociology and the social sciences. Over 60 scholars have reviewed it. It has been the subject of six symposia in major journals and won six awards. In October of 2016, I delivered the prestigious Annual Lecture for the British Journal of Sociology at The London School of Economics. That lecture along with six scholarly commentary was published as lead article in the March 2017 The British Journal of Sociology. My responses to these commentaries also appeared in this journal. The Scholar Denied is attracting substantial international attention and is being discussed and reviewed in a number of countries. It has also been the subject of five author meets critics sessions at major conferences. Much of my recent scholarly activities have centered on additional research and writing on issue highlighted by the book but did not receive adequate attention. Currently I have formed an editorial team to produce a definitive reader on W. E. B. Du Bois to be published by Oxford University Press. This project will take several years to complete. Thus, most of my future work will address the many controversies ignited by The Scholar Denied. I continue to work on the civil rights movement and collective action. I plan to continue to produce scholarship from this project over the next several years. 2 AWARDS and HONORS 2017: John D McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior 2017: Award for Outstanding Leadership in Social Activism, Community Organizing, and Scholarly Teaching, Brooklyn, NY City Council 2017: Fulbright Specialist Award The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology: 2016 R. R. Hawkins Award 2016 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2016 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology 2016 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association 2016 William Julius Award, for sociological Practice, Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology 2016 Film: Aldon Morris: The Scholar Affirmed (Documentary). 2015 Lester F. Ward Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied and Clinical Sociology. 2014 Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award American Sociological Association 2013 Ran for President of the American Sociological Association (Not Elected) 2013 A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentoring and Service Association of Black Sociologists 2012 Nominated for President of the American Sociological Association (Accepted) 2009 Cox-Johnson- Frazier Award American Sociological Association 2006 Joseph Sandy Himes Award for Lifetime Scholarship Association of Black Sociologists 2005 Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined) 2005 Nominated for Editorship of the American Sociological Review (Declined) 2003 Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined) 3 1997 Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chaves, Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1995 Certificate of Leadership Award, Association of Black Sociologists 1988 Outstanding Leadership Award as President of the Association of Black Sociologists from 1986-88, Membership of the Association of Black Sociologists 1988 Drum Major Award, University of Michigan Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Epsilon Chapter 1987 Outstanding Young Graduate Award, Bradley University For The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: 1986 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association 1986 Honorable Mention, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems 1986 Gustavus Myers Award 1986 Co-winner, Annual Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association 1985 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1984 FELLOWSHIPS 2017: Fulbright Specialist Award 1996-1997 International Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 1986 Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, Stanford, California 1980 Rackham Grant and Faculty Fellowship 1977-1979 American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship GRANTS 1998 Hartford Seminary Research Grant 1998 Weinberg College of Arts and Science, Northwestern University 1994 Northwestern University Research Grant 1987 American Sociological Association Grant (co-recipient) 1987 Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan Frontiers of Social Movement Theory Workshop Grant 4 1984 University of Michigan Faculty Grant 1979 Sydney Spivack Dissertation Grant 1978 National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. Paperback Edition, 2017. University of California Press. The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, University of California press, August, 2015. The Frontier of Social Movement Theory, with Carol Mueller (edited), Chinese translation, Peking University Press, 2005. Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest, with Jane Mansbridge (edited), University of Chicago Press, 2001 The Frontier of Social Movement Theory, with Carol Mueller (edited), Yale University Press, 1992 The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change, Free Press, 1984. Chapter 6 reprinted in Social Movements: Perspective and Issues, (eds.) Steven M. Buechler and F. Kurt Cylke, Jr., Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997 Sections from Chapter 1 reprinted in Disruptive Religion: The Force of Faith in Social- Movement Activism, (ed.) Christian Smith, Routledge, New York, 1996 ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REPORTS: “American Negro at Paris, 1900,” Princeton Agricultural Press, Forthcoming “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Father of Pan-Africanism?” South African Press, Forthcoming “The Souls of White Folk,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, December 2017 “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter.” British Journal of Sociology, March 2017. “The Quest to Overcome Irrelevance in a Troubled World: Can DuBoisian Analyses Rescue Sociology? British Journal of Sociology, March 2017 Julian Go’s World: Postcolonial thought, Social Theory, and Human Liberation. “Trajectories historical/comparative sociology” Newsletter. Volume 28. No.3 2016-2017 5 “The State of Sociology: The Case for Systemic Change.” Social Problems. Volume 64, Issue 2, 1 May 2017 “Redeeming W.E.B. Du Bois”. 2016. Global Dialogue, Volume 6, Issue 2. “Rejoinder, Symposium: Aldon Morris’ The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology.” 2016. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 39 Issue 8. “Generation X and the Historic Black Freedom Struggle.” 2016. BOOK FORUM on Clarence Lang, Black America in the Shadows of the Sixties: Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics, Journal of Civil and Human Rights. Vol.2: Issue.1 Response, BOOK FORUM, The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Aldon Morris, 2016. Journal of Civil and Human Rights. Vol. 2. Issue 2. “Sociology and Social Justice: Confronting Challenges of the Twentieth-First” Journal of Applied Social Science. Vol. 10, No. 2, January, 2016, p. 96-103. “From Du Bois to Black Lives Matter.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology. http://berkeleyjournal.org/2016/01/from-du-bois-to-black-lives-matter/ “Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity January 2015 vol. 1 no. 1 105-126.