January 2013 CURRICULUM VITAE 1. KENNEDY, MICHAEL ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
January 2013
1. KENNEDY, MICHAEL DAVID
Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University
2. ADDRESS
Box 1916 Maxcy Hall
112 George Street Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-2367 Fax: (401) 863-3213
Michael_Kennedy@brown.edu
3. EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1985) University of North Carolina, Sociology
Dissertation: “Professionals and Power in Polish Society”
Chairpersons: Gerhard E. Lenski and T. Anthony Jones
M.A. (1981) University of North Carolina, Sociology
Thesis: “Fiscal Strain in the Central City: Social Capital and Social Expense Expenditure”
Chairperson: John D. Kasarda
A.B. (1979) Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina,
Sociology and Anthropology
Foreign Languages: Polish (good); German (basic); Russian and Ukrainian (rudimentary)
4. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Brown University
Professor of Sociology and International Studies, 2009-present
Howard R. Swearer Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, 2009-11;
University of Michigan
Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, 2008-09
Vice Provost for International Affairs, 1999-2004
Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology, 1986-2009
Director of the
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, 2008-09
International Institute, 1999-2004
Advanced Study Center, International Institute, 1999-2000; Co-Convenor, 1994-96
Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1995-98, 1999; 2005-2008
Center for European Studies/European Union Center 2005-2008
Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations, 1993-95

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The University of South Carolina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, 1985-86
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Visiting Faculty Member in Sociology, Summer 1986
Teaching Assistant in Sociology, Summers 1983, 1984, 1985
Graduate Assistant in Sociology, 1979-1981
Research Services Ltd., Wembley, Middlesex, England:
Research Supervisor, 6/78-8/78
5. PUBLICATIONS
a. Monographs, Edited Volumes, Electronic Collections:
1. (in preparation) Articulations of Globalizing Knowledge: Cosmopolitan Intellectuality and
Consequential Solidarity
2. (2002) Cultural Formations of Postcommunism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation and War
(University of Minnesota Press).
3. (1991) Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: A Critical Sociology of Soviet-type
Society (Cambridge University Press).
4. (2011) The Environment and Higher Education: Past, Present, Future (Michael D. Kennedy,
Nancy Jacobs and J. Timmons Roberts, co-directors) http://www.luceenvironment.org/
5. (2011) Engaging Afghanistan www.engagingafghanistan.org
(Shiva Balaghi and Michael D. Kennedy co-directors)
6. (2004-05) “Social Change in Poland” International Journal of Sociology, 34:3, 34:4, 35:1,
(Lucyna Kirwil and Michael D. Kennedy, eds.)
7. (2004) Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics (David William
Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy, eds.) University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office)
8. (2000) Negotiating Radical Change: Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish
Round Table Talks. (Michael D. Kennedy, Brian Porter, Margarita Nafpaktitus and Donna
Parmelee, eds.) Ann Arbor: Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Michigan.
9. (2000) Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power and the Transnational Public
Sphere (John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy and Mayer Zald, eds.) (University of Michigan
Press).
10. (1999) Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D.
Kennedy, eds.) (University of Michigan Press).
11. (1994) Envisioning Eastern Europe: Postcommunist Cultural Studies (editor) (University of
Michigan Press).
b. Chapters in Books and Electronic Collections
1. (forthcoming in 2015) Substantial Revision to (2001) “Eastern European Studies: Culture”
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, second edition.
Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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2. (forthcoming in 2013) “Polish Taziyehs” in Slavs and Tatars (eds.) Friendship of Nations:
Polish Shi’ite Showbiz London: Bookworks and Sharjah Art Foundation (Shiva Balaghi and
Michael D. Kennedy) http://ajammc.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/polish-shiite-showbiz-slavsand-tatars-on-79-89/
3. (forthcoming in 2013) “Mobilizing Justice across Hegemonies in Place: Critical
Postcommunist Vernaculars” in Jan Kubik and Amy T. Lynch, Justice, Hegemony, and
Social Movements: Views from East/Central Europe and Eurasia New York: New York
University Press.
4. (2012) “Keywords for Globalizing Knowledge Across Contexts” pp. 112-38 in William
Glover and Ken Kollman (eds.) Relevant/Obsolete? Rethinking Area Studies in the U.S.
Academy. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan with Lulu Publishing).
http://www.lulu.com/shop/ken-kollman-and-william-glover/relevant-obsolete-area-studiesin-the-us-academy/ebook/product-20626479.html
5. (2012) “The Next Left and Its Social Movements” pp. 98-109 in Ernst Stetter, Karl Duffek,
and Ania Skrzypek (eds.) Next Left: Building New Communities FEPS Belgium.
http://www.feps-europe.eu/en/publications-next-left
6. (2012) “Cultural Formations of the European Union: Integration, Enlargement, Nation and
Crisis” pp. 17-50 in Rebecca Friedman and Markus Thiel (eds.) European Identity and
Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging Aldershot: Ashgate.
7. (2012) “Environmental Knowledge Matters: Assessing Impacts of the Luce Foundation
Initiative on Higher Education and Sustainability” (Michael D. Kennedy, J. Timmons
Roberts, Alissa Cordner and Adam Kotin) www.luceenvironment.org
8. (2012) “How Are Russian Energy Policies Formulated? Linking the Actors and Structures of
Energy Policy” (Pami Aalto, David Dusseault, Markku Kivinen and Michael D. Kennedy)
pp. 20-42 in Pami Aalto (ed.) Russia’s Energy Policy: National, Interregional and Global
Levels. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
9. (2011) “Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, and Democratic Possibilities”
www.engagingafghanistan.org
10. (2011) “Cultural Formations of the Public University: Globalization, Diversity, and the State
at the University of Michigan” pp. 457-99 in Craig Calhoun and Diana Rhoten (eds.)
Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University New York: Columbia
University Press.
11. (2010) “Area Studies and Academic Disciplines across Universities: A Relational Analysis
with Organizational and Public Implications” pp. 195-226 in David Wiley and Robert Glew
(ed.) International and Language Education for a Global Future: Fifty Years of Title VI and
Fulbright-Hays Programs East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
12. (2008) “From Transition to Hegemony: Extending the Cultural Politics of Military Alliances
and Energy Security” pp. 188-212 in Mitchell Orenstein, Steven Bloom, and Nicole
Lindstrom (eds.) Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
13. (2007) “Internationalism and Global Transformations in American Sociology” (Michael D.
Kennedy and Miguel Centeno) pp 666-712 in Craig Calhoun (ed.) Sociology in America: A
History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press/An American Sociological Association
Centennial Publication).
14. (2004) “Root Causes of Human Insecurity” (a synthesis based on facilitations by
Christopher Andrew and Michael Kennedy, with the support of rapporteurs Andrzej Frank
and Nicola Mee) in A New Security Paradigm The Cambridge Security Seminar, 30 and 30
July 2003, A Seminar Record. Cambridge: C-SIS and Cambridge Review of International
Affairs. www.cambridgesecurity.net/pdf/new_security_paradigm.pdf
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15. (2004) “Constituting Sacred Spaces, Producing Heretical Knowledge” (David William
Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy) in David William Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.)
Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics (University of Michigan
Scholarly Publishing Office).
16. (2004) “Sacred Spaces and Heretical Knowledge: National Universities and Global Publics”
(Kathleen Canning, David William Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy) in David William
Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.) Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and
Global Publics (University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office)
17. (2004) “Transforming Globalization’s University and the Challenge of Difference in an Age
of Belligerence” ” in David William Cohen and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.) Responsibility in
Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics (University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing
Office)
18. (2001) “Eastern European Studies: Culture” in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates (Editors-in-
Chief) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam:
Pergamon.
19. (2001) “A Cultural Analysis of Homosocial Reproduction and Contesting Claims to
Competence in Transitional Firms” pp. 407-44 in Daniel R. Denison (ed.) Managing
Organizational Change in Transitional Economies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
20. (2001) “Transition Culture in East European Business” Fathom
http://www.fathom.com/index.jhtml?pageName=/story/story.jhtml?story_id=122352
21. (2000) “Globalizations and Social Movements” (John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy and
Mayer Zald) in Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power and the Transnational
Public Sphere (John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy and Mayer Zald, eds.) (University of
Michigan Press).
22. (2000) “The Spatial Articulation of Identity and Social Issues: Estonia, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan through Focus Groups” in Kimitaka Matuzato (ed.) Regions: a Prism to View the
Slavic-Eurasian World. Towards a Discipline of 'Regionology’. Sapporo: Slavic Research
Center.
23. (2000) “Introduction” and “Power, Privilege and Ideology in Communism’s Negotiated
Collapse” in Michael D. Kennedy, Brian Porter, Margarita Nafpaktitus and Donna Parmelee
(eds.) Negotiating Radical Change: Poland’s RoundTable Talks. Ann Arbor: Center for
Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan.
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/PolishRoundTable/negotiatingradicalchange/index.html
24. (1999) “Poland’s Critical Sociological Significance: A Comparative and Historical Approach
to a Nation and Difference”, pp. 239-63 in A. Jasinska-Kania, M. L. Kohn and K.M.
Slomczynski (eds.) Power and Social Structure: Essays in Honor of Wlodzimierz
Wesolowski. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
25. (1999) “Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation” (Michael D. Kennedy and Ronald
Grigor Suny) pp. 1-51 in Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.) Intellectuals
and the Articulation of the Nation.
26. (1999) “The Labilities of Liberalism and Nationalism after Communism: Polish Businessmen
in the Articulation of the Nation” pp. 345-78 in Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D.
Kennedy (eds.) Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation.
27. (1999) “Towards a Theory of National Intellectual Practice” (Ronald Grigor Suny and
Michael D. Kennedy) pp. 383-417 in Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.)
Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation.
28. (1994) “An Introduction to East European Ideology and Identity in Transformation” pp. 1-45
in Michael D. Kennedy (ed.) Envisioning Eastern Europe: Postcommunist Cultural Studies
(University of Michigan Press).
29. (1994) “Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Labilities of Nationalism in Eastern Europe”
(Nicolae Harsanyi and Michael D. Kennedy) pp. 149-79 in Michael D. Kennedy (ed.)
Envisioning Eastern Europe: Postcommunist Cultural Studies (University of Michigan
Press)
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(an earlier version of this appeared in Ukrainian: (1995) “Mizh utopijeju ta dystopijeju:
labilnist’ natsionalizmu v Skhidnij Jevropi” Suchasnist’ N 3. S. 147-155. Translated from
English by Tetiana Vasyl’chuk.
30. (1993) “The End of Soviet-type Societies and the Future of Post-Communism” in Craig
Calhoun and George Ritzer (eds.) Sociology (New York: McGraw Hill). (1991) “Eastern
Europe’s Lessons for Critical Intellectuals” pp. 94-112 in Charles Lemert (ed.) Intellectuals
and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World. (Key Issues in Sociological Theory, vol 5)
Sage Press.
31. (1991) “Eastern Europe’s Lessons for Critical Intellectuals” pp. 94-112 in Charles Lemert
(ed.) Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World. (Key Issues in
Sociological Theory, vol 5) Sage Press.
32. (1991) “Normative Foundations and Empirical Sociology: Democracy, Inequality and Social
Justice in Polish Society” The Polish Sociological Bulletin No. 1(93):27-50;
reprinted as “Transformations of Normative Foundations and Empirical Sociologies: Class,
Stratification and Democracy in Poland” in Piotr Ploszajski and Walter Connor (eds.) Escape
from Socialism: The Polish Route Warsaw: PAN IFiS, 1992; and in Walter Connor and Piotr
Ploszajski (eds.) The Polish Road from Socialism: The Economics, Politics and Culture of
Transition. European publishers: US publishers: ME Sharpe, 1992, pp. 283-312.
33. (1991) “Constraints on Professional Power in Soviet-type Society: Insights from the 1980-81
Solidarity Period in Poland” pp. 167-206 in Anthony Jones (ed.) Professions and the State:
Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Temple University Press
(Michael D. Kennedy and Konrad Sadkowski).
34. (1984) “Public Opinion and Political Disruption,” in Jack Bielasiak and Maurice Simon
(eds.) Polish Politics: Edge of the Abyss, pp. 138-68, New York: Praeger Press (T. Anthony
Jones, David Bealmear and Michael D. Kennedy).
35. (1984) “The Fiscal Crisis of the City,” in Michael Peter Smith (ed.) Cities in Transformation:
Class, Capital, and the State (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol 26), pp. 91-110, Beverly
Hills: Sage Press.
36. (1983) “Church and Nation in Socialist Poland,” in Peter H. Merkl and Ninian Smart (eds.)
Religion and Politics in the Modern World, pp. 121-54, New York: New York University
Press, (Michael D. Kennedy and Maurice Simon).
c. Refereed Journal Articles:
1. (under review) “Articulations of Transformation: Subjectivities and Structures in Crisis”
2. (forthcoming) “Engaged Ethnography under Communist Rule: Sociology, Solidarity and
Poland” Problems of Post-Communism
3. (2013) “Russia’s Energy Relations in Europe and the Far East: Towards a Social
Structurationist Approach to Energy Policy Formation” Journal of International Relations
and Development 13:1:1-29 (Pami Aalto, David Dusseault, Michael D. Kennedy and Markku
Kivinen)
4. (2006) “Calhoun’s Critical Sociology of Cosmopolitanism, Solidarity, and Public Space”
Thesis Eleven 84:73-89
5. (2005) “The Ironies of Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power” Theory and Society 34: 24-
33.
6. (2004) “What Have We Learned from the Study of Social Change in Poland?” (with Lucyna
Kirwil) in International Journal of Sociology 34:3:3-14.
7. (2004) “Evolution and Event in History and Social Change: Gerhard Lenski’s Critical
Theory” Sociological Theory 22:2:315-27.
8. (2004) “Poland in the American Sociological Imagination” Polish Sociological Review
4(148) ’04 361-83 and in Wlodzimierz Wesolowski and Jan Wlodarek (eds.) Polska, Europa,
Swiat (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR)
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9. (2001) “Postcommunist Capitalism, Culture and History” American Journal of Sociology
106:4: 1138-51
10. (1999) “Contingencies and the Alternatives of 1989: Toward a Theory and Practice of
Negotiating Revolution” East European Politics and Society 13:1:301-10.
11. (1998) “The Narrative of Civil Society in Communism’s Collapse and Postcommunism’s
Alternatives: Emancipation, Polish Protest and Baltic Nationalisms” (Michael D. Kennedy
and Daina Stukuls) Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic
Theory 5:4:541-71.
12. (1996) “From Marxism to Postcommunism: Socialist Desires and East European Rejections”
(Michael D. Kennedy and Naomi Galtz) in Annual Review of Sociology. 22: 437-58.
13. (1996) “For Theory and Its Others: Comment on Jay” Theory and Society 25:185-92.
14. (1995) “Globalisms Birthing Illegitimacy” Periphery: A Journal of Polish Affairs vol 1 #1: 8-
15. (1994) “What is ‘the Nation’ after Communism and Modernity?” The Polish Sociological
Review 1(105):47-58.
16. (1994) “Entrepreneurs and Expertise: A Cultural Encounter in the Making of Post-
Communist Capitalism in Poland” (Michael D. Kennedy and Pauline Gianoplus) East
European Politics and Societies vol. 8 #1:56-91.
17. (1992) “The Alternative in Eastern Europe at Century’s Start: Brzozowski and Machajski on
Intellectuals and Socialism” Theory and Society vol. 21 #4:735-53.
18. (1992) “The Intelligentsia in the Constitution of Civil Societies and Post-Communist
Regimes in Hungary and Poland” Theory and Society, vol 21 #1:29-76,
an unannotated version of which is reprinted in Bob Deacon (ed.) Social Policy, Social
Justice and Citizenship in Eastern Europe (Basingstoke, UK: Avebury Press, 1992), pp. 71-
112.
19. (1991) “The Constitution of Physicians’ Power: A Theoretical Framework for Comparative
Analysis” Social Science and Medicine vol. 32 #6:643-48 (Michael D. Kennedy and Luis
Duran-Arenas).
20. (1990) “The Constitution of Critical Intellectuals: Polish Physicians, Peace Activists and
Democratic Civil Society” Studies in Comparative Communism vol. 23 #3/4:281-304.
21. (1989) “Power and the Logic of Distribution in Poland” East European Politics and Societies
vol. 3 #2:300-328 (Michael D. Kennedy and Ireneusz Bialecki).
22. (1989) “East Central European Urbanization: A Political Economy of the World System
Perspective” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research vol. 13 #4:63-90
(Michael D. Kennedy and David A. Smith).
23. (1987) “Polish Engineers’ Participation in the Solidarity Movement.” Social Forces vol. 65
#3:641-69.
24. (1987) “Hermeneutics, Structuralism and the Sociology of Social Transformation in Soviettype
Society.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory vol. 8:47-76.
25. (1983) “Urban Fiscal Strain and Forms of Expenditure: An Empirical Evaluation of
Structuralist Urban Theory,” Comparative Urban Research vol. 9 #2: 34-40.
26. (1982) “American Regional Cultures and Differences in Leisure Time Activities,” Social
Forces vol. 60 #4: 1023-1050, (Peter V. Marsden, John Shelton Reed, Michael D. Kennedy
and Kandi M. Stinson).
d. Non-Refereed Print and Electronic Journal Articles
1. (2012) “Cosmopolitanism and the Global Articulation of Consequential Solidarity” Queries:
The Next Mission of Cosmopolitan Social Democracy 8:46-54. http://www.fepseurope.eu/uploads/queries/2012_07/#/46
2011)
2. (2011) “Global Solidarity and the Occupy Movement” Possible Futures: A Project of the
Social Science Research Council http://www.possible-futures.org/2011/12/05/globalsolidarity-occupy-movement/
reposted in Berkeley Journal of Sociology
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http://bjsonline.org/2011/12/understanding-the-occupy-movement-perspectives-from-thesocial-sciences/;
Njohja (Knowledge) University of Pristina (in Albanian);
3. (2011) “Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and Historical Frames: 2011, 1989, 1968” Jadaliyya
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2853/arab-spring-occupy-wall-street-and-historicalfram
4. (2011) “Kosova, Libya ,and the Question of Intervention” Jadaliyya
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1086/kosova-libya-and-the-question-of-intervention
5. (2011) “How Can Egypt Get from Tahrir Square to Democracy? Lessons from 1989 in
Poland” (Shiva Balaghi and Michael D. Kennedy) Jadaliyya
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/542/how-can-egypt-get-from-tahrir-square-todemocracy-lessons-from-poland-in-1989
6. (2010) “A Public Sociology of Emerging Democracies: Revolution, Gender Inequalities and
Energy Security” Bulletin of University of Lviv: Sociological Series (Issue 3) ("Вісник
Львівського університету. Серія соціологічна". Випуск 3)
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/pub_detail.cfm?id=1081
7. (2009) “On Public Sociology and its Professional, Policy, and Critical Complements in
America and the Postcommunist World” Academic Studies from Lviv Sociological Forum
“Traditions and Innovations in Sociology” ("Наукові студії львівського соціологічного
форуму "Традиції та інновації в соціології") 201-12.
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/pub_detail.cfm?id=1082
8. (2009) “Engaging Emerging Democracies” The Journal of the International Institute 16:2:10-
12. (All publications from this journal are available here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/)
9. (2007) “Global Transformations and Cosmopolitical Social Science” (Michael D. Kennedy,
Leslie Camilo, Alison Nau, Atef Said, and Hiro Saito) The Journal of the International
Institute 14:2:11.
10. (2005) “Public Relations: How Should the Scholarly and Political Communities Relate to
Each Other?” Newsnet of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
45:2:1-6.
11. (2004) “Ideological Diversity and Intellectual Responsibility in Area Studies and International
Affairs” The Journal of the International Institute 11:2-3:8-9.
12. (2003) “Institutional Capacities and Global Transformations” The Journal of the International
Institute 11:1:8-9.
13. (2003) “International Common Sense” LSAmagazine Fall, pp, 28-29
14. (2003) “Culture, War, and Humility around a University of the World” The Journal of the
International Institute 10:3: 12-13.
15. (2003) “The Contradictions and Contentions of Internationalism” The Journal of the
International Institute 10:2:14-15.
16. (2002) “Globalization is US?” The Journal of the International Institute 10:1:12-13
17. (2002) “North American Universities and the World: Sacred Spaces and Heretical
Knowledge” (with David William Cohen) The Journal of the International Institute 10:8
18. (2002) “Cultural Formations of Postcommunism after September 11” Items and Issues: Social
Science Research Council 3:1-2:19-20
19. (2002) “Whose Biographies and Histories?” The Journal of the International Institute
9:3:14-15.
20. (2002) “Religion, Security and Violence in Global Contexts” The Journal of the International
Institute 9:2:8-9.
21. (2001) “Globalizing Knowledge through Area Studies” The Journal of the International
Institute 9:1:12-13.
22. (2001) “Engaging Globalization’s Difference” The Journal of the International Institute
8:3(10-11).
23. (2001) “Globalization’s University Challenge” The Journal of the International Institute
8:2(4-5).
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24. (2000) “The Global Politics of Intellectual and Institutional Responsibility” The Journal of the
International Institute 8:1 (12-13)
25. (2000) “Extending Contextual Expertise” The Journal of the International Institute 7:3:(12-
13)
26. (2000) “On Collaboration and Diversity” The Journal of the International Institute 7:2:(14-15)
27. (1999) “International Institute Futures” The Journal of the International Institute 7:1(23)
28. (1999) “Communism’s Negotiated Collapse: The Polish Round Table Talks of 1989” LS&A
Magazine, 22:2:26-27.
29. (1998) “Internationalizing Social Science in Eastern Europe” Items: Social Science Research
Council 52:2-3:44-47.(reprint in) The Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in
Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being (SSL) C:\Documents and
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Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\Owner\My Documents\1-SSL-FINAL
FORM\SSRC\www.socialsciencelibrary.org
30. (1997) “A Manifesto (of sorts) for Area Studies” The Journal of the International Institute
4:3:6-7.
31. (1996) “Istorychna spadshchyna ta hromadians’ke suspil’stvo: al’ternatyvni natsiji v Sxidnij
Jevropi” (“Historical Legacies and Civil Societies: Alternative Nations in Eastern Europe”) in
Yaroslav Hrytsak and Mykola Krykun (eds.) Ukraina Moderna (Modern Ukraine) Lviv State
University, Volume I .
An earlier abbreviated version of this paper appeared in Suchasnist’ 1 N 5. (1994) pp. 81-
85. in Ukrainian and in English as a Working Paper from CRSO/CSST.
32. (1996) “The Value of Business Expertise in Eastern Europe” The Journal of the International
Institute 4:1:10
f. Review Essays
1. (forthcoming) “Postcommunism’s Discursive Distinction” Multilingua: A Journal of Cross-
Cultural and Inter-Language Communication
2. (2012) “Circular Validations and Modes of Understanding from Socialism to Wall Street”
Contemporary Sociology 41:4:456-60.
3. (2010) “Soviet Studies, National Security, and the Production of ‘Useful’ Knowledge: A
Discussion of Know Your Enemy and the Rise and Fall of Soviet Experts” Perspectives on
Politics 8:1163-1166.
4. (2007) “Anger and Solidarity in Transition Culture” Labor History 48:1:81-88.
5. (2007) “Transition Culture and Postcommunist Capitalism in Georgia” (Michael D. Kennedy
and Elizabeth Eagen) in The Caucasus and Globalization (Sweden) 1:2(2007): 53-57.
6. (1999) “Postcommunist Institutional Design” Contemporary Sociology 28:2:207-209
7. (1992) “Social Theory after Leninism and Modernism” Contemporary Sociology vol. 21
#3:311-13.
8. (1983) “Class and Class Struggle: From Czechoslovakia 1968 to Poland 1980,” Review of
Radical Political Economics vol. 15 #2:153-60.
g. Book Reviews
1. (2009) Haller, Max. European Integration as an Elite Process: The Failure of a Dream? in
Contemporary Sociology 38:4:342-44
2. (2006) Jacoby, Wade. The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO in Contemporary
Sociology 35:1:62-63.
3. (1999) Krejci, Jaroslav and Pavel Machonin. Czechoslovakia 1918-92: A Laboratory for
Social Change; in Social Forces 77:3:1658-59 (Michael D. Kennedy and Elaine Weiner).
4. (1998) Robert B. Pynsent (ed.) The Literature of Nationalism: Essays on East European
Identity; in Slavic Review 57:2:428-29.
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5. (1998) Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen (eds.) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and
Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires; in
Contemporary Sociology 27:3:293-94.
6. (1997) Grzegorz Weclawowicz, Contemporary Poland: Space and Society; in Europe-Asia
Studies 49:2:335-36.
7. (1997) Leon Fink, Stephen Leonard and Donald Reid (eds.) Intellectuals and Public Life:
Between Radicalism and Reform; in American Journal of Sociology. 102:6:1771-73.
8. (1996) Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? and Jacek Kuron and
Jacek Zartowski, PRL dla poczatkujacych; in Lingua Franca July/August: 13.
9. (1995) Adam Podgorecki Polish Society; in Contemporary Sociology 24:2:
10. (1995) Mike Forest Keen and Janusz Mucha, Eastern Europe in Transformation: The Impact
on Sociology; in Contemporary Sociology 24:1:21-22.
11. (1993) Walter Connor The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics and Crisis in
Gorbachev’s Russia; in American Journal of Sociology 98:5:1244-47.
12. (1992) Stephen White Political Theory and Postmodernism; in Critical Sociology
19:2:124-28.
13. (1992) Alexander Motyl (ed.) Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities; in Slavic
Review 51:4:844-45.
14. (1992) Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in
Hungary’s Road to Capitalism; in Social Forces 71:1:247-48.
15. (1992) Pierre Bourdieu. In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology; in
Sociological Inquiry 62:2:271-73.
16. (1992) David Ost. Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics; in Contemporary Sociology:
21:1:29-30.
17. (1991) Jane Leftwich Curry. Poland’s Journalists: Politics and Professionalism; in
Contemporary Sociology vol 20 #1:59-60.
18. (1991) David Lane. Soviet Society under Perestroika; in Social Forces 70:1:263-64.
19. (1990) Ronald M. Glassman, William H. Swatos, Jr. and Paul L. Rosen (eds.) Bureaucracy
against Democracy and Socialism; in Social Forces vol 68 #4:1342-43.
20. (1989) Urban, George R. (ed.) Social and Economic Rights in the Soviet Bloc: A
Documentary Review Seventy Years After the Bolshevik Revolution; in Social Forces vol 68
#2:689-90.
21. (1989) Glover, Ian A. and Michael P. Kelly. Engineers in Britain: A Sociological Study of
the Engineering Dimension; in Social Forces vol 67 #4:1096-97.
22. (1988) Shanin, Teodor. The Roots of Otherness Volume I: Russia as a Developing Society
and Volume II: Russia, 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth; in Social Forces vol
67:#1:255-58 (Michael D. Kennedy and Anne Gorsuch).
23. (1988) Koralewicz, Jadwiga, Ireneusz Bialecki and Margaret Watson (eds.). Crisis and
Transition: Polish Society in the 1980’s; in Contemporary Sociology vol 17:#6:763.
24. (1988) Holton, R.J. Cities, Capitalism and Civilization; in Social Forces vol 66 #3:860-61.
25. (1987) Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. and Tadeusz Krauze (eds.) Social Stratification in
Poland; in Social Forces vol 66 #1:279-81.
26. (1986) Misztal, Bronislaw (ed.). Poland after Solidarity and C.M. Hann. A Village without
Solidarity; in Social Forces vol 65 #1:271-73.
27. (1986) Staniszkis, Jadwiga. Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution; in Social Forces vol 64
#3:804-806.
28. (1983) Jennings, M. Kent and Richard Niemi. Generations and Politics; in International
Journal of Sociology of the Family vol 13 #1.
29. (1983) Boggs, Carl. The Impasse of European Communism; in National Defense vol 68
#389:109.
30. (1982) Gouldner, Alvin. The Two Marxisms: Contradictions and Anomalies in the
Development of Theory; in Review of Radical Political Economics vol 13 #4: 67-68.
31. (1982) Dratchkovitch, Milorad (ed.) East Central Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow; in
National Defense vol 67 #383:61
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32. (1981) Simon, Maurice and Roger Kanet (eds.) Background to Crisis: Policy and Politics in
Gierek’s Poland; in National Defense vol 66 #371:66-67
33. (1981) Elliot, Charles and Carl Linden (eds.) Marxism in the Contemporary West; in
National Defense vol 65 #367:72.
h. Editorials, Blogs, Brief Comments and Interviews:
1. (2012) Forward for Ernst Stetter, Karl Duffek, and Ania Skrzypek (eds.) Next Left: Building
New Communities FEPS Belgium.
2. (February 3, 2012) “Poles Rallying for Our Digital Freedom” Providence Journal B6
(editorial) http://www.watsoninstitute.org/pub_detail.cfm?id=1148
3. (October 20, 2011) “An Ex-Premiere’s Plight and the Future of Ukrainian Freedom and
Democracy” Providence Journal, B7 (editorial)
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1580
4. (2010) a contribution to “New Media and the Reshaping of Religious Practice” in the
Immanent Frame, http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/03/16/new-media-and-the-reshaping-ofreligious-practice/#Kennedy
5. (2009) “Public Spheres, Private Lives, and Roundtable Negotiations in 1989 and 2009”
Transformations of the Public Sphere, http://publicsphere.ssrc.org
6. (November 2, 2006) “MCRI Would Lower U-M to Mediocrity” (Michael D. Kennedy and
Abigail Stewart) Ann Arbor News (editorial)
7. (2006) Introductory comment for Zbigniew Libera Work from 1984-2004, a catalogue
accompanying his exhibition at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design.
8. (2005) “Cultural Politics and Globalization in East Central Europe” The Journal of the
International Institute 13:1:7 (Michael D. Kennedy and Genevieve Zubrzycycki)
9. (October 19, 2004) “Are Poles Bushmen?” Chicago Tribune (editorial)
10. (2003) “International Biographies: A. Nihat Gökyiğit” The Journal of the International
Institute 10:3:8-9.
11. (2003) “An Introduction to Iraq: The Costs of War and the Risks of Peace”. The Journal of
the International Institute 10:2:1.
12. (2002) “Comment” on Burkhart Holzner, “Global Change and the Organizational and
Intellectual Challenges for International Studies in the United States” Items and Issues: Social
Science Research Council 3:3/4:8-9; and on “transitology”, p. 11.
13. (2002) “Grounding Expertise” The Journal of the International Institute 9:2:12
14. (December 11, 2001) “FBI Interviews Feel Hauntingly Familiar” Detroit Free Press (editorial)
15. (2001) “Introduction to Terrorism and Globalization” ii: The Journal of the International
Institute 9:1:21
16. (2001) “The Yanomami and the Global University” ii: The Journal of the International
Institute 9:1:7
17. (1995) “Social Movements and Social Change in a Globalizing World” ii: The Journal of the
International Institute 3:1:2,6
18. (1995) “CSST Locating Conservatisms” ii: The Journal of the International Institute 3:1:4
19. (1995) Interview with Jadwiga Staniszkis “On the End of the Cold War and on
Postcommunist Peripheral Capitalism” Periphery: A Journal of Polish Affairs. vol 1 #1: 19-
21. http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~zbigniew/Periphery/No1/hybrids.html
20. (1995) “CSST: Reflections and New Explorations” ii: The Journal of the International
Institute 2:3:(19).
21. (1994) “Advanced Study Center holds year-long seminar on Cold War” ii: The Journal of the
International Institute 2:1:(1,4).
22. (1994) “Craig Calhoun to Edit Sociological Theory” Footnotes, Newsletter of the American
Sociological Association, 22:5:5.
23. (December 6, 1990) “Poland’s Presidential Elections and Post-Communism” Swiat Polski
(editorial)
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24. (June 8, 1989) “Is Poland Ready for Open Politics?” The New York Times (editorial)
i./j. Invited Lectures and Papers Read
1. Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Summer, 2013.
“The Life, Death, and Soul of Bethlehem Steel”
2. The Robin Williams Lecture, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California,
Irvine. March 1, 2013
“Global Articulations of Emerging Democratic Formations”
3. Trouble in the Eurozone: Views on the Once and Future Crisis, Harvard University Center
for European Studies, 2012
“Articulations of Crisis and Transformations in the European Union”
4. Hungarian Sociological Association Keynote Address, 2012
“Intellectuals, Issues, and Publics in European Crisis Transformations”
5. 40 Years of the Department of Philosophy and Department of Sociology (1972-2012) 2012
“Kosova and Global Public Sociology: Historical Trajectories and Alternative Futures”
6. Calhounianism, Past, Present, Future, Institute for Public Knowledge, 2012
“Craig Calhoun and the Articulation of the Nation”
7. American University in Kosovo, 2012
“Universities, Global Transformations and Engaging Publics”
8. Next Left Building Communities, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University,
Law School, 2012
“Cosmopolitanism and the Global Articulation of Consequential Solidarity”
9. "The Public University in the 21st Century" Rutgers University, 2012
“How Publics Matter in Higher Education”
10. New York University Abu Dhabi 2011
“Globalizing Knowledge and the Cultural Politics of Energy Security”
11. Relevant/Obsolete? Rethinking Area Studies in the US Academy, 2010
Symposium University of Michigan
“The Meanings and Consequences of Contextual Expertise for Engaging Policies and
Publics”
12. International Bar Association, 2010
“Political and Legislative Implications of Net Neutrality’s Imagery”
13. World Affairs Council of Rhode Island, 2010
“Globalization and the Future of Europe and Eurasia in Turbulent Times”
14. Academic Fellowship Program, Open Society Institute, University of Prishtina, 2010 and
Open Society Institute Higher Education Support Program Academic Fellowship Program
Cross Regional Discipline Group Meeting – Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies,
History, Sociology, 2010
“Knowledge Institutions and Empowering Publics”
15. Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence Broad Distinguished Lecture Series,
2010
“System, Agent, Issue and Event in the Cultural Formations of the European Union”
16. Lviv Sociological Forum, 2009
“On Public Sociology, and its Professional, Policy and Critical Complements in America
and in the Postcommunist World”
17. Open Society Institute Higher Education Support Program Academic Fellowship Program
Cross Regional Discipline Group Meeting – Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies,
History, Sociology, Istanbul, 2009:
“The Cultural Political Articulation of National Identities and Energy Security”
18. (US Department of Education) Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference, March, 2009 and Yale
University, MacMillan Center, 2009:
“Area and International Studies and Academic Disciplines across Universities: A
Relational Analysis with Organizational and Public Implications”
19. Yale University, Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, 2009:
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“The Cultures of Energy Security in the Middle East and Eurasia for Europe and
America: Apparent Accounts, Mobilizing Frames, and Deep Structures”
20. “Energy of the 21 st Century: Economy, Policy, Ecology” FINEC, St. Petersburg, Russia,
2008.
"The Meanings of Energy Security in the Middle East and Eurasia for Europe and
America: A Comparative Cultural Sociology"
21. “After Liberalism”, a conference organized by Social Science Research Council and Russia’s
Institute for Eastern Europe, Moscow Russia 2007
“After Liberalism in European Enlargement and Energy Dependence”
22. Nordic International Studies Association, Odense, Denmark, 2007:
“Is Russia Becoming an Energy Superpower: The Social Structuration of Russia’s
Energy Sector (with Pami Alto, David Dusseault and Markku Kivinen)
23. The Wider Caucasus: Energy, Ethnicity, Economics and Security” organized by the
Aleksanteri Institute’s Eurasia Energy Group in coordination with the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs of Finland, 2007:
“Culture, Power, History, and Energy in Global Transformations”
24. Transnationalism and Nationalism in Postcommunist Politics, Syracuse University, 2005
“The Cultural Politics of Military Alliances and Energy Security”
25. American Sociological Association, 2005
“A Sociology of Comparative Sociology and Area Studies”
26. World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Stockholm, 2005
“Militarism and Civil Society: Cultural Frameworks and Individual Responsibility in
Poland's Articulation of Freedom against Communism and in Iraq”
27. Russia, Central Europe and the Liberal Arts: A Global Partners Symposium and Reunion
2005:
“The Liberal Arts in the Reflection of Postcommunist Social Change”
28. Aleksanteri Institute, Finland, 2005:
“Poland, Ukraine, and Russia after Transition Culture: The Cultural Politics of Energy
and Security”
29. Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, 2005:
“Linking Culture and Security: The Future of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European
Studies”
30. Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, and Global Studies Initiative,
Rutgers, 2005:
“A Framework for Analyzing the Cultural Politics of Globalizing Knowledge:
Connectivity, Violence, and Transcendence”
31. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2004:
“An Analysis of and Prescription for Government/Academic Partnership: Title VI and
Beyond”
32. 12 th All Poland Sociology Congress, Poznan, Poland, September 18, 2004:
“Poland in the American Sociological Imagination”
33. Euro-Atlantic Action Commission, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2004:
“Poland-University of Michigan Collaboratory in Science, Technology and Education”
34. Meeting of Council of National Resource Centers, 2004
“The Fields of Title VI”
35. Second International Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 2004:
“The Arts in the Religious and Secular Formations of the Globalizing University”
36. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2003:
“Ironies of Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power”
37. Annual Meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools, 2003:
“Projecting North American Universities Abroad”
38. Global Challenges and US Higher Education, 2003:
“The Articulation of International Expertise in the Professions”
39. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2002:
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“Discipline and Region: A Sociology of Sociology and Area Studies”
40. Annual Meeting of the Association of International Education Administrators, 2002:
“Strengthening the University through International Research: Intellectual Innovation and
Institutional Effect”
41. Central European University, 2002:
“Globalizing Knowledge after September 11”
42. Imagining Russia, Havighurst Center, Miami University of Ohio, 2001:
“Envisioning Russia from Disciplinary and Regional Borderlands”
http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter/papers/Kennedy.pdf
43. Annual Meeting of the Association of International Education Administrators, 2001:
“Grounding, Translation and Expertise in the Revitalization of Area Studies at the
University of Michigan”
44. Seoul National University, Department of Sociology, May 2000:
“Ideology and Critique in Transition: From Solidarity to Functionalism in Eastern
Europe”
45. Universities Past and Present, Fukuoka, Japan, May 2000:
“Extending Collaboration Across the World and Across the University” (with Steven
Whiting)
46. Workshop in Eastern Europe, University of Chicago, March, 2000
“Transition Culture and Postcommunist Social Change”
47. A Workshop on Critical Oral History, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of
Sciences, October 1999
“Sociology and Critical Oral History”
48. “Global Problems, Local Troubles” (The University of Helsinki and Tallinn Pedagogical
University, August 1999)
“Identity Formation and Social Problems in Comparative Perspective”
49. “Eastern Europe at the Dawn of the New Millennium” (Center for International Business
Studies, Wayne State, 1999)
“The Politics of Transition Culture”
50. “Beyond State Crisis? The Quest for the Efficacious State in Africa and Eurasia” (Madison,
Wisconsin, March 1999):
“The Efficacious State and Civil Society after Communism: Transition Culture and
Environmental Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan”
51. Social Science Research Council Forum on the State of Social Science, Carnegie Center,
Moscow, Russia, 1998:
“Contentions on the Core of Sociology”
52. Hokkaido University, Japan, 1998, and University of Kansas, 1999:
“The Spatial Articulation of Identity and Social Problems: Estonia, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan through Focus Groups”
53. “Thinking Ahead Internationally”, in Celebration of the Social Science Research Council’s
75 th Anniversary, 1998:
“Internationalizing Social Science in Eastern Europe”
54. Northwestern University, 1998
"Globalizing Expertise, Rethinking Comparisons and Contextualizing Knowledge: A
Diagnosis and Intervention”
55. Harvard University, 1997
“Narratives of Freedom and Despair: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan through Focus
Groups”
56. “Workshop on Identity Formation and Social Issues in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan”,
Kyiv, Ukraine, 1997,:
“Post-Soviet Problems and Identity: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan through Focus
Groups” (with Lisa Fein)
57. University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of California, Los Angeles,1997:
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“Narratives of Identity and Difference after Communism: Doing Business and Making
Problems from Poland to Uzbekistan”
58. Chicago Humanities Institute, “Beyond Civil Society”, 1996:
“The Narrative of Civil Society in Communism’s Collapse and Postcommunism’s
Alternatives: Identity and Difference in East European Business, Polish Protest and
Estonian Nationalism”
59. Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1996:
“Identity Formation and Social Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan” (with
Barbara Anderson, John Romani and Lisa Fein).
60. American Sociological Association, 1995:
“Postcommunist Cultural Studies: Ideology, Identity, War and Class Formation”
61. American Sociological Association, 1994:
“Post-Communist Society in Between Ideology and Identity Formation: Some Notes on
Entrepreneurs and Solidarity in Poland”
62. Trials of Transition: Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland, Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, 1993 and Conference of Europeanists, 1994:
“Professionals and Protest in Transformation: Physicians, Teachers and Movements in
Post-Communist Poland”
63. Institute of Historical Studies, Lviv University, Ukraine, 1993:
“Historical Legacies and Civil Societies: Alternative Nations in Eastern Europe”
64. University of California at Los Angeles, 1993
“Privatization and Expertise in Eastern Europe: Western Assistance in Cultivating
Capitalists” (with Pauline Gianoplus)
65. Post-Communism to Post-Solidarity, Polish Transition Embroiled, St. Mary’s College, 1992:
“Entrepreneurs and Expertise: Making Post-Communist Capitalism in Poland” (with
Pauline Gianoplus).
66. Hungarian Sociological Association, Budapest, 1991:
“National and International Factors in the Construction of Expertise”
67. New Poland - Old Obstacles, St. Mary’s College, 1991:
“Poland and Its Neighbors in the Search for Democracy”
68. Professions and Public Authority: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, The International
Sociological Association, 1990:
“State Power and Professional Power: Mexican and Polish Physicians in the Twentieth
Century” (with Luis Duran-Arenas, paper read in our absence)
69. Socialism and Change: Polish Perspectives, IREX and the Polish Academy of Sciences, May
22-27 1990 Madralin, Poland and October, 1990, Princeton NJ:
“Normative Foundations and Empirical Sociology: Inequality, Democracy and Social
Justice in Polish Society”
70. World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies, Harrowgate, England 1990:
“Intellectuals in the Constitution of Civil Society and Post-Communist Regimes in
Poland and Hungary”
71. Workshop on Changing Relationships between Intellectuals and Labor, Center for European
Studies, Harvard University, 1990; and University of Toronto, 1991:
“Professionals and Workers in Poland: During and After Communism”
72. Conference on Instability in Poland, Pennsylvania State University, 1989:
“Instability and Intellectuals of Different Sorts: Physicians and Peace Activists”
73. GMI Engineering and Management Institute, Flint, MI, 1989:
“From Solidarity in 1980 to Fragmentation in 1990: Polish Engineers, Workers and
Reform”
74. American Sociological Association, 1989:
“Critical Sociology in Eastern Europe”
75. American Sociological Association, 1988:
“The Historical Constitution of Professions: Comparative Notes on Physicians in Mexico
and Poland in the Twentieth Century” (with Luis Duran-Arenas).
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76. Southern Sociological Society, 1987:
“Towards a World Systems Perspective on Urbanization in Eastern Europe?” (with
David A. Smith).
77. University of Warsaw, 1987:
“Professionals and Power in Polish Society”
78. Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 1987:
“Towards a Critical Theory of Soviet-type Society” and “Professionals in the Power
Relations of Polish Society”.
79. American Sociological Association, 1987:
“Constraints on Professional Power in Soviet-type Society: Insights from the Solidarity
Period in Poland” (with Konrad Sadkowski).
80. Conference of Europeanists, 1987:
“Polish Professional Discourse on Solidarity and the Crisis”
81. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1987:
“Professional Dependency in Polish Society”
82. Southern Sociological Society, 1986:
“Hermeneutics, Structuralism and the Sociology of Social Transformation, with Special
Reference to Czechoslovakia and Poland”
83. American Sociological Association, 1985:
“Polish Engineers’ Participation in the Solidarity Movement”
84. International Studies Association, 1985:
“Power Relations and the Distribution of Privilege in Polish Society”
85. Polish Academy of Sciences, 1984:
“Recent Strategies of the American Democratic Left”
86. Warsaw Polytechnical University, 1984:
“Inzynierowie Amerykanscy i Polscy: Dwa Przyklady Niespelnionych Modelow
Profesjonalnych?” (American and Polish Engineers: Two Cases of Unfulfilled
Professional Projects?)
87. University of Warsaw, 1983:
“Reflections on the New Ecological-Evolutionary Theory of Gerhard Lenski”
88. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1982:
“Recent Public Opinion Research in Poland” (with T. Anthony Jones, David Bealmear,
and Piotr Drozdowski).
89. Southern Sociological Society, 1982:
“Working Class Control and Actually Existing Socialism”
90. American Sociological Association, 1982:
“Towards an Explanation of Political Instability under Industrial Socialism: Directions
for Research”
91. American Sociological Association, 1981:
“The Fiscal Crisis of the City: Expenditures, Revenues, and Debt”
92. Southern Sociological Society, 1981:
“Sleepy Time Down South? Regional Differences in Leisure Time Use” (with John
Shelton Reed, Peter V. Marsden, and Kandi M. Stinson)
6. RESEARCH GRANTS
Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council, 2010-
“Engaging Afghanistan” (Shiva Balaghi and Michael D. Kennedy) ($100,000)
www.engagingafghanistan.org
Research Grant from the Luce Foundation, 2010-11
“Assessing Environmental Knowledge Flows” (Michael D. Kennedy, Timmons Roberts and
Nancy Jacobs) ($150,000) www.luceenvironment.org
Research Grant from the European Commission, 2005-2008
“The Cultural Politics of Energy Security” (Michael D. Kennedy and Markku Kivinen)
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Conference Grant from the National Science Foundation, 2004-05
"The Cultural Politics of Globalization and Community in East Central Europe,"
(Michael D. Kennedy and Genevieve Zubrzycki) ($79,872)
Research Grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, 1999-
2000
“Negotiating Revolution in Poland: Conversion and Opportunity in 1989” (Michael D.
Kennedy, Brian Porter and Andrzej Paczkowski) ($50,300)
http://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/ii/polishroundtable/
Research Grant from the United States Institute for Peace, 1999-2000.
“Negotiating Radical Change: Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish
Round Table Talks” (Michael D. Kennedy and Brian A. Porter) ($30,000).
Research Grant from the National Council For Soviet and East European Research,
“Identity Formation and Environmental and Social Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and
Uzbekistan”, 1996-97, Michael D. Kennedy, Barbara Anderson and Oksana Malanchuk
($64,229).
Grant from the Mellon Foundation for a “Sawyer Seminar” entitled “Social Movements and
Social Change in a Globalizing World” in 1995-96 at the Advanced Study Center,
International Institute, University of Michigan (Mayer Zald and Michael D. Kennedy)
($100,000).
USIA Lviv University/University of Michigan Exchange Program, Lectures on Sociology in
Lviv, Ukraine, 1993.
Short Term Travel Grant from IREX to bring Polish sociologist Ireneusz Bialecki to the
University of Michigan for collaboration on a project called “Intellectual Authority in Post-
Communist Poland”, 1992 ($2,090).
Research Grant from The National Council for Soviet and East European Research: “The
Construction of New Expertise: Education, Professions and Elites in Polish Post-
Communism”, 1991-92 (Michael D. Kennedy, Ireneusz Bialecki and Barbara Heyns)
($50,000).
Faculty Coordinator, “Polish Tour and Study Seminar for College Presidents and Deans”, a
grant to the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan
from the US Department of Education, 1991 ($40,000).
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Joint Council on Eastern Europe of the American
Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council: “Professionals,
Solidarity and Power in Poland,” 1987-88 ($15,000).
Travel and Coordinating Grant for Poland from the International Research and Exchanges
Board (IREX), August 1983-June 1984.
Graduate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, 1981-83, 1984-85.
University of Michigan Institutional Awards and Major Gifts:
Private Endowment 2008
The Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Ronald and Eileen
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies ($11,500,000) (Principal Faculty Contact)
Program and Research Grant from the European Commission, 2008-11
“European Union Center for Excellence” (276,499 Euro) (Principal Investigator
submission)
Program Grant from the United States Department of Education, 2006-2010
National Resource Center ($925,976) and FLAS Awards ($886,000) for the Center for
Russian and East European Studies (Project Director)
US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays "Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad"
Award (to the II/UM), and
US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays "Faculty Research Abroad" Award (to the
II/UM), 1999-2004
1999-2000 DDRA ($194,388); 2000-2001 DDRA ($186,349); 2001-2002 FRA ($65,000);
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2001-2002 DDRA ($404,958); 2002-2003 FRA ($114,030); 2002-2003 DDRA ($308,865);
2003-2004 DDRA ($311,783)
Program and Research Grant from the European Commission, 2001-04
“Center for European Union Studies” (in support of Daniel Halberstam, Steven Whiting
and Ken Kollman) ($439,617)
Program and Training Grant from the Alcoa Foundation, 2000-2002
“Science, Professions and Global Diversity” (Michael D. Kennedy, Bradley Farnsworth
and Mark Wilson) ($47,000)
Program, Research and Training Grant from the Ford Foundation, 1999-2003
“Grounding, Translation and Expertise: Revitalizing Area Studies Across the University”
(David William Cohen, Michael D. Kennedy and Bruce Mannheim) ($350,000)
Program Grant from the United States Department of Education, National Resource Center
($537,192) and FLAS Awards ($300,000) for the Center for Russian and East European
Studies (Project Director), 1997-2000 (Project Director)
Research and Training Grant from the Ford Foundation, “Identity Formation and Social
Problems in Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan”, 1995-97, Michael D. Kennedy, B. Anderson,
T. Hopf, O. Malanchuk, and M. Kamp ($250,000).
7. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY, PROFESSION, AND COMMUNITY
Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association
Chair, Nominating Committee, 2012
World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Europe and Central Asia
Member, 2010-11
Social Science Research Council, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
Member, 2006- ; Executive Committee Chair, 2008-;
Chair, Presidential Search Committee, 2012
Social Science Research Council, Regional Advisory Panel for Eurasia,
Member, 1996- ; Chair, 1999-2008
American Council for Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council,
Joint Council on Eastern Europe,:
Member, 1994-96; East Europe Council, American Council of Learned Societies,
1997-1998
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Elected Member at Large, Board of Directors, 2004 – 2006;
Nominated, Candidate for President, 2006
Davis Russian Research Center, Harvard University, Visitors’ Committee
Member, 2000-05
Aleksanteri Institute Advisory Board, Helsinki, Finland
Member 2003-11
University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Board of Visitors
Member, 2005-2008
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Research and Writing Screening Committee, 1998, Selection Committee, 1999, 2000
Center for Transcultural (formerly Psychosocial) Studies
Associate of the Social Theory Group, 1989-2004
External Reviewer
International Affairs at the University of Kansas, 2012
Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2008;
Lviv National University MA Programs in Cultural Studies and Sociology, 2008;
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Center for Social Studies/Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences,
2005
Ferdinand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2005
Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, 2005
International Affairs at the University of Kansas, 2004
International Affairs at the University of Florida, 2003
Office of International Programs, University of Pennsylvania, 2002;
Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA, 2001.
Corresponding or Associate Editor:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2012-
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2010-;
Bulletin of University of Lviv: Sociological Series, 2008-;
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2005-09;
Polish Sociological Review, 2000-;
East European Politics and Societies, 1998-;
Slavic Review, 1996-2001;
Sociological Theory 1994-98;
Theory and Society, 1993-;
Periphery: A Journal of Polish Affairs, 1994-1999;
Social Forces, 1982-83;
Postcommunist Cultural Studies Book Series for Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996-
2000
The review of proposals for:
National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; New York University
Presidential Fellowships; The Spencer Foundation; Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada; Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Soviet and
Post-Soviet Studies; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; MacArthur
Foundation; Central European University; Foundation Archimedes (Estonia).
The review of articles for:
American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, American
Sociological Review, The Public Opinion Quarterly, Research in Social Stratification and
Mobility, Sociological Theory, The Sociological Quarterly; International Journal of Comparative
Sociology; Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Political Power and Social Theory, Theory
and Society, Work and Occupations; Journal of Consumer Culture; Comparative Studies in
Society and History, Signs, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Michigan Dialogue in
Anthropology, The Michigan Academician, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences;
Journal of Civil Society; World Politics; Eastern European Politics and Societies, Slavic Review,
Nationalities Papers, and The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and Eastern European Studies; AFP
Working Papers 2011-2012;
The review of faculty for promotion and tenured hire for:
University of California – Berkeley; William Hobart and Smith College; University of
California, Los Angeles; Stanford University; University of Michigan; University of California,
San Diego; University of Kansas; Colgate College; University of Illinois, Champagne Urbana;
Rutgers University; Harvard University; Yale University; University of Virginia; University of
Oregon; University of South Carolina; Haverford College; Syracuse University; Northwestern
University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Columbia University; University of
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Washington; University of Chicago; New York University; University of Michigan Taubman
College of Architecture and Urban Planning; University of Michigan School for Natural
Resources and Environment; University of Richmond; University of Arizona; Northeastern
University.
The review of book manuscripts and proposals for:
Random House, Dorsey Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Westview
Press, Cornell University Press, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press,
University of Michigan Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, St. Martin’s Press, Central
European University Press, Polity Press, and Cambridge University Press.
Session or Workshop Organizer or Presider Beyond Brown University and University of Michigan:
Next Left Building Communities, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University, Law
School, 2012; “Universities and Social Change” and “Dilemmas of Public Sociology” Open
Society Foundation/Academic Fellowship Program Meeting, Budapest, 2012; “What is Public
Sociology for PostCommunist Society?”, Academic Studies from Lviv Sociological Forum
"Multidimensional Spaces of Contemporary Social Changes" ("Наукові студії львівського
соціологічного форуму "Багатовимірні простори сучасних соціальних змін"), 2009; “The
Future of Eurasian Studies”, Social Science Research Council, 2008; Session on Linkages, “The
Impact of New Technologies on Teaching and Research in International Studies”, Indiana
University, 2002; “Nations and Nationalism”, American Sociological Association, 2001;
“Solidarity – Twenty Years After” , American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, 2000; “Identity and the Middle Class” American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, 1999; “Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship”, Conference of European Studies,
1994; “Central Europe from a Global Perspective”, Hungarian Sociological Association, 1991;
“Integration and Contradiction: State and Civil Society in Eastern Europe”, American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1989; “Problems of Socialist Transition”,
Southern Sociological Society, 1983.
Discussant or Workshop Participant Beyond Brown University and University of Michigan:
Real Utopia Proposal Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
(2012): “The Public University as a Real Utopia” and “Designs and Dilemmas of Participatory
Budgeting”; Next Left Building Communities, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard
University, Law School, 2012; “Universities and Social Change” and “Dilemmas of Public
Sociology” Open Society Foundation/Academic Fellowship Program Meeting, Budapest, 2012;
“Yalta European Strategy”, Ukraine, 2011; "America Engages Eurasia" June 13-July 1, 2011
Columbia University, for Valerie Bunce, "The Changing Terrain of East European Studies" in
NEH Summer Institute; “Corruption: Old Problem, New Norms”, World Economic Forum on
Europe and Central Asia, Vienna, 2011; “The Department of Defense Minerva Initiative”, Social
Science Research Council, 2008; “Internationalizing Scholarship”, Social Science Research
Council, 2008; “The Social Role of Intellectuals in the Middle East” European Union Institute,
Florence, 2008; “Contexts and Connections: Beyond Disciplines and Area Studies Workshop”,
Social Science Research Council, 2008; “Unity and Diversity in Iraq: the Nation’s Past and
Future”, a workshop in Istanbul sponsored by the Hollings Center for International Dialogue and
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, October, 2007; “Hegemony, Justice, and
Social Movements in East/Central Europe and Eurasia” Social Science Research Council and
University of Warsaw, 2007; Central Eurasian Studies Society conference, 2006; “Sovereignty
Beyond Geographical Borders”, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2006;
Annual Meeting of European Union Center of Excellence Directors, 2006; “Fourth Workshop
for Armenian and Turkish Scholarship”, Salzburg, Austria, 2005; “Actually Existing Society”,
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Princeton University, 2005; “Critical Thinking”, American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, 2004; International Programs Planning, American Council of Learned Societies,
2004; The Provost’s International Round Table at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004;
Cambridge Security Seminar, Cambridge University, 2003; “Kitchen Prayers: A Performance
on Global Loss”, Sabanci University/University of Michigan, Istanbul, 2002; “The Future of
International Studies: Academic Research in a Changing Global Context” Social Science
Research Council, 2002; ”Globalizing the Academy” at the Salzburg Seminar, 2001; “Crossing
Borders and the Revitalization of Area Studies”, Ford Foundation, Sonoma, 2001; “Comparative
Cultural Politics”, Istanbul, 2001; “International Education and Public Policy”, NAFSA-
International Educators Association, 2001; “Globalizing the Academy”, Dartmouth College,
2000; “Poland 1986-89”, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1999;
“Revitalizing Area Studies” Ford Foundation Conference, 1998; “Polish Modernity”, ” American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1997; Social Science Research Council
conference on Area Studies, 1997; “East European Cultural Politics” American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1995; Workshop Participant in “Globalization and the Law”,
University of Miami, 1995; “Historical Thought and Social Theory Since the 1960s: Objectives,
Results, Events”, Interpreting Historical Change at the End of the Twentieth Century, University
of California, Davis, 1995; “Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship”, Conference of European
Studies, 1994; Plenary Session on “Sociology in Eastern Europe”, American Sociological
Association, 1992. “Workshop on the Sociology and Anthropology of the Soviet Union, for the
Social Science Research Council, July 1991, June 1992, and June 1993, Stanford, CA and June
1994, Ann Arbor, MI; “Social Differentiation in Socialist Systems”, American Sociological
Association, 1987; “East European Studies in Community Politics and Political Participation”,
World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, 1985; “Poland”, Philosophy and Social
Science: Democracy and the New Social Movements, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik,
Yugoslavia, 1984.
8. ACADEMIC HONORS
Academic Fellowship Program Non-Resident International Scholar Fellowship, Open Society
Institute, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 2012-13
Academic Fellowship Program Non-Resident International Scholar Fellowship, Open Society
Institute, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 2011-12
Academic Fellowship Program Non-Resident International Scholar Fellowship, Open Society
Institute, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 2010-11
Academic Fellowship Program Non-Resident International Scholar Fellowship, Open Society
Institute, University of Prishtina, Kosova, 2009-10
University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity, 2009
Distinguished Diversity Scholarship and Engagement Award
Academic Fellowship Program Non-Resident International Scholar Fellowship, Open Society
Institute, Lviv National University, Ukraine, 2008-09
Gold Cross of Merit, the Republic of Poland, Presented by President Aleksander
Kwasniewski, October 18, 1999. In recognition of contributions to scholarship and
education about Poland.
Foreign Visiting Fellow, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan, 1998
(declined).
University of North Carolina, Department of Sociology:
Howard W. Odum Graduate Student Award for Excellence, 1981.
Honors, Doctoral Examination, Part I, “Sociological Theory”, 1980.
9. TEACHING
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Teaching Awards
University of Michigan: College of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, 1992; College of
Literature, Science and the Arts Excellence in Education Award, 1991; University Teaching
Award, 1990; College of Literature, Science and the Arts Teaching Excellence Award, 1990
Courses Taught
Introductory: Human Societies; American Society; Social Problems
Advanced: Class and Stratification; Urban Sociology; Theory in Sociology; Eastern
European Societies and Institutions; Survey of Eastern Europe; Soviet and East European
Societies; Honors Sociology; Religion, Security and Violence in Global Contexts; Social
Change; Martial Arts, Culture, and Society; Knowledge Networks and Global
Transformations.
Graduate: Sociology of Culture and Knowledge; Classical and Contemporary Sociological
Theory; The Sociology of Intellectuals and Professionals; Transformations of Communist
and Post-Communist Systems; Nations and Nationalisms; The Cold War and Its Aftermath;
Social Movements and Social Change; Theorizing Socialism; Culture and Social
Transformations; Area Studies and Social Science; Global Transformations; Globalization,
Democracy, and Violence; Sociology of Emerging Democracies
Student Committees
at Brown University
Sociology doctoral dissertation committee chair: Mujun Zhou, “Cultural Formation of
Citizenship in Socialist Transition: Liberal Activists in Rights Defending Activities in Urban
China”, 2012-
Committee Member: Michael Rodriquez; Aisalkyn Botoeva;
Cultural Sociology Program Chair 2012-
Undergraduate Thesis Advisor/Reader:
2012: Marcel Bertsch-Gout, Hannah Braun, Kathryn Cohen, Julia Ellis Kahana,
Nik Kalyanpur, Elizabeth Karin, Olivia Petrocco, and Ben Sadkowski.
Other Service
Undergraduate Concentration Advisor, Department of Sociology, Brown University, 2012-
ASK Advisory Committee, 2012-
at the University of Michigan
Doctoral dissertation committee chair, co-chair, reader, mentor, and examiner for 54 theses in
anthropology, education, environmental studies, ethnomusicology, history, political science,
Slavic literature, and sociology.
Co-reader of 21 masters and undergraduate honors theses in Russian and East European
Studies.
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