CURRICULUM VITAE November 2017 NAME: Erik Olin Wright ADDRESS: 1101 Grant Street 8112D Social Science Building Madison, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin 53711 Madison, Wisconsin 53706 TELEPHONE: (608) 255-6454 (home) (608) 262-2921 (office) E-mail Address: [email protected] DATE OF BIRTH: February 9, 1947 BIRTHPLACE: Berkeley, California EDUCATION AND DEGREES: Harvard College B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) 1968 Social Studies Balliol College, Oxford B.A. (First Class Honors) 1970 History Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Ph.D. 1976 Sociology AWARDS AND HONORS: National Science Fair-International, 4th place in biological sciences, 1963 National Science Fair-International, lst place in Mathematics, 1964 National Merit Scholarship, 1964 Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, 1968 (declined) Fulbright Fellowship, 1968 (declined) Henry Fellowship for study in England, 1968 Summa Cum Laude, BA in social studies, Harvard College, 1968 Social Science Research Council Pre-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship, 1969 First Class Honors, BA in history, Balliol College, Oxford, 1970 University of California Chancellor's Science Fellowship, 1971 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1972-1975 Kent Fellowship, 1972 (postponed until 1975) German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1982-1983 University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellowship, 1983 C. Wright Mills Distinguished Professor, 1990 John D. MacArthur Professorship, 1993 Vilas Distinguished Research Professor, 1998 University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award, 1998 American Sociological Association Distinguished Publications Award, honorable mention, for Class Counts, 1999 Outstanding paper in Social Stratification, for “Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise”, Center for the Study of social Inequality, Cornell University, 2001 President, American Sociological Association, 2011-12 Honorary Doctorate, University of Buenos Aires, November 2015 POSITIONS HELD: 1983- Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology 1987-1988 Visiting Professor University of California – Berkeley, Department of Sociology 1980-1983 Associate Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology 1976-1980 Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Sociology Erik Olin Wright curriculum vitae 2 BOOKS IN PRINT: 1. Alternatives to Capitalism (with Robin Hahnel), (London and New York: Verso, 2016) originally published as a New Left Project eBook, 2014, available at: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/alternatives_to_capitalism_proposals_for_a_democratic_economy 2. Understanding Class (London and New York: Verso, 2015) 3. American Society: How it Really Works (with Joel Rogers), New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; second edition 2015 4. Envisioning Real Utopias. London and New York: Verso, 2010. Translations: Korean, Chinese (Taiwan and China), Spanish, Croatian, Greek, German, French, Finish (in preparation). 5. Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Translations: Spanish, Turkish, Chinese 6. Deepening Democracy: institutional innovations in empowered participatory governance (with Archon Fung), London: Verso: 2003. Spanish translation, National University of Colombia Press, 2003. 7. Class Counts: student edition (Cambridge University Press, 2000) 8. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Chinese Translation, 2004 9. Interrogating Inequality (London: Verso, 1994), Spanish translation, 2005 10. Reconstructing Marxism: essays on Explanation and the Theory of History (with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), Verso, 1992 (Portuguese translation, 1993) 11. The Debate on Classes (London: Verso, 1990) 12. Classes (London: Verso, 1985). Spanish translation, 1994. 13. Class Structure and Income Determination, New York: Academic Press, 1979. 14. Class, Crisis and the State, London: New Left Books, 1978; Verso, P P1979. Translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean. 15. The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America. New York: Harper and Row and Harper Colophon Books, 1973. BOOK SERIES EDITOR: Real Utopias Project Volume 1 Associations and Democracy, by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, with contributions by Paul Q. Hirst, Ellen Immergut, Ira Katznelson, Heinz Klug, Andrew Levine, Jane Mansbridge, Claus Offe,, Philippe Schmitter, Wolfgang Streeck, Andrew Szasz and Iris Young. Edited and introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 1995) Volume 2 Equal Shares: making market socialism work, by John Roemer, with contributions by Richard J. Arneson, Fred Block, Harry Brighouse, Michael Burawoy, Joshua Cohen, Nancy Folbre , Andrew Levine, Mieke Meurs, Louis Putterman, Joel Rogers, Debra Satz, Julius Sensat, William H. Simon, Frank Thompson, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Erik Olin Wright. Edited and introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 1996) Volume 3 Recasting Egalitarianism: new rules for equity and accountability in markets, communities and states, by Samuel Bowles and Herbt Gintis, with contributions by Daniel M. Hausman, Erik Olin Wright, Elaine McCrate, Elinor Ostrom, Andrew Levine, Harry Brighouse, David M. Gordon, Paula England, John E. Roemer, Karl Ove Moene, Michael Wallerstein, Peter Skott, Steven N. Durlauf, Ugo Pagano, Michael R. Carter, Karla Hoff . Edited and Introduced by Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 1999) Erik Olin Wright curriculum vitae 3 Volume 4 Deepening Democracy: Innovations in empowered participatory governance. by Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright with contributions by Rebecca Neaera Abers, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick Heller, Bradley C. Karkkainen, Rebecca S. Krantz, Jane Mansbridge, Joel Rogers, Craig W. Thomas, and T.M. Thomas Isaac (London: Verso, 2003) Volume 5 Redesigning Distribution: basic income and stakeholder grants as cornerstones of a more egalitarian capitalism, by Bruce Ackerman, Ann Alstott and Philippe van Parijs, with contributions by Barbara Bergmann, Irv Garfinkle, Chien-Chung Huang , Wendy Naidich, Julian LeGrand, Carole Pateman, Guy Standing, Stuart White, and Erik Olin Wright (London: Verso, 2005) Volume 6 Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor, by Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, with contributions by Barbara Bergmann, Johanna Brenner, Harry Brighouse, Scott Coltrane, Rosemary Crompton, Myra Marx Ferree, Nancy Folbre, Heidi Hartman, Shireen Hassim, Lane Kenworthy, Vicki Lovell, Cameron MacDonald, Peter McDonald, Ruth Milkman, Kimberly Morgan, Ann Orloff, Michael Shalev, Erik Olin Wright, Kathrin Zippel. Edited with a Preface by, Erik Olin Wright. (London and New York: Verso, 2009) REAL UTOPIAS PROJECT: FUTURE VOLUMES IN DEVELOPMENT Legislature by Lot: An Alternative Design for Deliberative Governance, by John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright (in preparation; publication date: Fall, 2018) Democratizing Finance, by Fred Block and Robert Hockett Pathways to a Cooperative Market Economy, by Erik Olin wright and others BOOKS IN PRESS OR IN PREPARATION: 1. How to be an Anticapitalist for the 21st Century (expected completion: 2018) ARTICLES IN PRINT: 1. “Two approaches to inequality and their normative implications,” Items: insights from the Social sciences. SSRC. July, 2016. http://items.ssrc.org/two-approaches-to-inequality-and-their-normative-implications/ 2. “Is the Precariat a Class?” Global Labor Journal, vo. 7, No 2, pp. 123-135. 2016 3. “Real Utopias and Institutional Transformation,” Justice, Power and Resistance, vol. 1, no 1. 2016 4. “But at least capitalism is free and democratic, right?” in The ABC of Socialism (Jacobin: New York, 2016) 5. “How to Think About (and Win) Socialism. Jacobin (on line). 4.27.16. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/erik-olin- wright-real-utopias-capitalism-socialism/ 6. “Why Class Matters” Jacobin (on line), 12.23.15. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/socialism-marxism-democracy- inequality-erik-olin-wright/ 7. “How to be an Anticapitalist today,” Jacobin (on line), 12.2.15. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real- utopias-anticapitalism-democracy/ 8. “Sociological limitations of the climate change encyclical,” Nature Climate Change. Vol 5. October 2015 9. “Eroding Capitalism: A Comment on Stuart White's ‘Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit”, Journal of Applied Philosophy. November 2015, Volume 32, issue 4, pp. 432-439 10. “Class and Inequality in Piketty,” Contexts. 2015. Vol. 14. No 1. pp. 58-61. 11. “Real Utopias and the University” in Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Future of Democracy, Edited by Jon Shefner, Harry F. Dahms, Robert Emmet Jones, and Asafa Jalata (Palgrave, 2014), pp. 333-339 12. “Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias” American Sociological Review, February, 2013, pp. 1-26 Erik Olin Wright curriculum vitae 4 13. “Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis,” Transform!: European journal for alternative thinking and political dialogue, 11/2012, pp. 22-44 14. “Taking the social in socialism seriously”, Socio-economic Review, 2012. 10:286-402 15. “Real Utopias in and Beyond Capitalism: taking the social in socialism seriously”, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens, Greece: Nissos, 2012) 16. “Reply to Comments on Envisioning Real Utopias,” Symposium on Envisioning Real Utopias, New Political Science, Volume 34, No 3, September 2012, pp. 399-407 17. “Les Manifestations du Wisconsin,” (with Joao Peschanski), Contre-temps, 11:3, September, 2011, pp. 85-96 18. “Real Utopias,” Contexts,