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KEVIN B. ANDERSON (11/3/11)
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430
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EDUCATION
1983Ph.D. in Sociology from City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.
1980Master of Arts in Sociology, Queens College, CUNY
EMPLOYMENT
2009-Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
2002-08Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Women’s Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette
1985-02Assistant to Full Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
RECENT VISITING AND CONCURRENT POSITIONS
2008Visiting Scholar, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, University of California, Los Angeles (fall quarter)
2007Visiting Scholar, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, University of California, Los Angeles (winter and spring quarters)
2007-Concurrent Professor, Center for Social Theory, Nanjing University, China
2007Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China (October)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Social and Political Theory
History of Social and Political Thought
Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Theory
Critical Global Studies
Middle Eastern Society and Politics
Criminological Theory
GRANTS AND AWARDS (SELECTED)
2011Paul Sweezy Book Award from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association for Marx at the Margins (2010)
2008Purdue University Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship for project on "Ideological Wars Over the Middle East: A Study in Comparative Theory" (release from teaching in fall 2008 semester)
2001-07National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant for project on “Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Pre-Capitalist Societies,” carried out with scholars from the U.S., Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands (release from teaching for 2004-05 academic year)
2006Latifeh Yarshater Award for Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies for Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (2005) from the Persian Heritage Foundation; presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Iranian Studies, London
2004Purdue University Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship to work on monograph, "Multicultural Marx: Writing the Edges of Globalization" (release from teaching in spring 2004 semester)
2000International Erich Fromm Prize from the Fromm Society, Tübingen, Germany, for Kevin Anderson and Richard Quinney, eds., Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society
1996-97American Council of Learned Societies one-year Fellowship for a project on "Marxism, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism: A Study in Social Theory"
1996American Philosophical Society Research Grant for travel to Europe for a project on "Marxism, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism"
BOOKS
2010Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 316 pp.
French edition: Paris: Éditions Syllepse, forthcoming; Turkish edition: Istanbul: Versus Kitap, forthcoming
2005Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 346 pp.
Portuguese translation: Sao Paulo: E Realizacoes, 2011; Turkish translation: Istanbul: Bogazici University Publishing House (forthcoming);
1995 Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 311 pp.
Chinese translation: Nanjing University Press (forthcoming)
EDITED BOOKS
2012Karl Marx, edited by Bertell Ollman and Kevin B. Anderson. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 690 pp., in press.
2012The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory,” edited by Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 300 pp., in press
2004The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, New York: Monthly Review Press, includes new translations (433 pp.).
Persian translation: Tehran, Nika Publishing, 2007
2002The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx, by Raya Dunayevskaya, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (386 pp.); German edition: Die Macht der Negativität: Schriften über Philosophie der Revolution, trans. Ulrich Enderwitz, Monika Noll, and Felix Kurz, Münster: Unrast-Verlag, 2008; Spanish edition: El Poder de la Negatividad, Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2010
2000Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society, edited by Kevin B. Anderson and Richard Quinney, includes translations of unpublished Fromm material, Urbana: University of Illinois Press (176 pages)
1999Marx on Suicide, edited by Eric A. Plaut and Kevin B. Anderson, Evanston: Northwestern University Press (147 pp.): German translation: Karl Marx: Vom Selbstmord, with a new preface by Michael Löwy, Karlsruhe: Neuer ISP Verlag, 2001; Persian edition, Tehran: Gam-e Now Press, 2005.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (SELECTED)
2010“Not Just Capital and Class: Marx on Non-Western Societies, Nationalism, and Ethnicity,” Socialism and Democracy 24:3, pp. 7-22
2009Kamran Afary and Kevin Anderson, “Behind the 2009 Upheaval in Iran,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 8:2 (Fall)
2007Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, “The Iranian Impasse,” The Nation (NY), Vol. 285, No. 3 (July 16), pp. 35-40
2007"The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic: In Philosophy and in World Politics,” in Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, edited by Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek(Durham: Duke University Press), pp. 120-47
2007“Thinking about Fromm and Marxism,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 6:3 (Summer)
2004Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, “Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution,” New Politics 10:1 (Summer), pp. 113-222
2002“Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Pre-Capitalist Societies and Gender,” Rethinking Marxism 14:4, pp. 84-96
Persian translation: “Marx and Pre-Capitalist Societies: An Analysis of the Last Writings of Marx” (Oct. 19) and “Marx and Gender” (Oct. 22), Shargh [Tehran-a reformist daily paper, circ. 140,000], 2005
2002"Richard Quinney's Journey: The Marxist Dimension," Crime & Delinquency 48: 2, pp. 232-42
2001"Levine on the Marxian Tradition: From Idealist Roots to Nationalism and Internationalism," The Sociological Quarterly 42:1, pp. 101-109
1998"The Young Erich Fromm's Contribution to Criminology," Justice Quarterly 15:4, pp. 667-696
1998 "Uncovering Marx's Yet Unpublished Writings," Critique (Glasgow), No. 30-31, pp. 179-187 [also published in Turkish in Insancil (Istanbul, May 1997)]
1993"On Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory: A Critical Appreciation of Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution, Fifty Years Later," Sociological Theory 11:3, pp. 243-67
1987"Lenin, Bukharin and the Marxian Concepts of Dialectics and Imperialism: A Study in Contrasts," Journal of Political and Military Sociology 15:2, pp. 197-212
1986"Sources of Marxist Humanism: Fanon, Kosík, Dunayevskaya," Quarterly Journal of Ideology 10:4, pp. 15-29
1983"The 'Unknown' Marx's Capital, Vol. I: The French Edition of 1872-75, 100 Years Later," Review of Radical Political Economics 15:4, pp. 71-80