Doug McAdam
Professor, Academic
1951 –
Who is Doug McAdam?
Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books and over fifty articles, and is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. He wrote one of the first books on the theory in 1982 when analyzing the U.S. civil rights movement: Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970. His other book Freedom Summer won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1990. He served as the director of the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences between 2001 and 2005. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
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- Born
- Aug 3, 1951
- Also known as
- Douglas McAdam
- Douglas John McAdam
- Douglas J. McAdam
- Douglass McAdam
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Occidental College
Sociology
( - 1973) - Master of Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Sociology
( - 1977) - PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Sociology
( - 1979)
- Bachelor of Science, Occidental College
- Employment
- Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(2001 - 2005) - Stanford Department of Sociology
(1998 - 2001) - Assistant to Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
(1983 - 1998) - Assistant Professor, George Mason University
(1979 - 1982)
- Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
- Lived in
- San Francisco Bay Area
(1998 - )
- San Francisco Bay Area
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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