Doug McAdam

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Doug McAdam "is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and author of Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970." [1] CV

"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." [2]

Grants [3]

  • Awarded National Science Foundation grant for “A Comparative Case Analysis of Public Opposition to Infrastructure ‘Siting’ Decisions,” July 1, 2008-August 31, 2009.”
  • Awarded grant by the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford “Assessing Institutional and Interest Conflicts,” July 1, 2006-June 30, 2009, (With Ray Levitt and Richard Scott).
  • Awarded William T. Grant Foundation grant for study, “Assessing the Citizenship Benefits of Volunteer Youth Service: A Study of ‘Teach for America’ Volunteers,” June 2000-September 2003.
  • Awarded National Science Foundation grant to support “Collaborative Research on the Dynamics of Collective Protest in the U.S., 1950-2000,” July 2000-June 2002 (with Susan Olzak).
  • Awarded UPS Endowment Fund Grant to study “Urban Poverty, Neighborhood Organization and Collective Action,” June 1999-May 2001.
  • Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to support “Collaborative Research on the Dynamics of Collective Protest in the U.S., 1960-1980,” July 1997-June 1999.
  • Awarded NEH Grant to teach summer seminar on "The Roots and Contemporary Legacy of the '60s Experience'," June-August 1996.
  • Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to support a four-year seminar on "Comparative Study of Cycles of Revolutionary Politics," 1995-99 (with Chuck Tilly and Sidney Tarrow in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences).

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.

Other

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References

  1. Freedom Summer, Oxford University Press, accessed August 30, 2007.
  2. Doug McAdam, Stanford University, accessed August 29, 2008.
  3. CV, Stanford University, accessed August 29, 2008.