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Paul Joseph
Sociology Department
Tufts University
Medford MA 02155 USA
38 Outlook Drive
Lexington MA 02421
Phone: 617-627-2470 (W)
Phone: 781-863-8672 (H)
Fax: 617-627-3097
Email: [email protected]
Education:
1975
1971
1969
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of California, Berkeley
B.A. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Positions Held:
Title
Place/Date
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Sociology/Anthropology Department
Director, Peace & Justice Studies Program
Associate Professor of Sociology
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Lecturer in Sociology
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Tufts University, 1993-present
1986-1988; 1991-1995
1987-1995; 1998-2012
Tufts University, 1981-1993
Tufts University, 1975-1981
University of CA., Berkeley, Summer 1975
Antioch College, 1972-1973
National Chair, Peace Studies Association
Distinguished Chair, Fulbright Foundation
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar
1994-1995; 1999-2000
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Spring
2011
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, January –
December 2003.
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New
Zealand, September 1995-June 1996
Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan,
September-October 1996
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Awards:
Major
Fulbright Specialist Roster, 2014-2019
Fulbright Award, Distinguished Chair, India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Spring 2011
Distinguished Service Award, Peace Studies Association, 2001.
Canterbury Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1996.
"Mad to Nuts: The Increasing Danger of Nuclear War," voted readers' co-choice as best article in
Socialist Review and included in anthology, Best of SR, 1991.
Nominated for C. Wright Mills Award (Cracks in the Empire), 1982.
Lillian Liebner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Guidance, Tufts University, 1980.
Other
Massachusetts Peace Action Community Award (to the Tufts University Peace and Justice Studies
Association), April 2007
Professor of the Year, Tufts Democrat Club, 2007
Tufts Faculty Research Award, 1979, 2003, 2006, 2010
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 1995.
Senior Scholar Grant for travel to the USSR, International Research Exchange Board, June,1989.
Grant, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, 1987.
Tufts Summer School Award for Course Development, 1986.
Curriculum Development Grant, World Order Institute, Fall 1982.
Dean's Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1974-1975.
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination with Distinction, Winter, 1974.
Special Career Fellowship, 1969-1974, National Science Foundation, University of
California, Berkeley.
First Class Honors in Sociology and Anthropology, McGill University, 1969.
Publications:
Books
Soft Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and U.S. Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. London
and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. 2014.
Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful? Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
Peace Politics: The United States Between The Old and New World Orders, Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1993.
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Cracks in the Empire: Class Influence and State Politics in the Vietnam War, Boston:
South End Press, 1980.
Second edition published at Columbia University Press, New York, 1987. New Preface.
Edited Volumes
The Many Faces of War: A Social Science Encyclopedia (General Editor). Colson Media/SAGE
Reference forthcoming. 2015.
Search for Sanity: Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament (edited with Simon
Rosenblum), Boston: South End Press, 1984.
Articles
“War and Terrorism” chapter in Javier Trevino (ed.) Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA. SAGE
Reference 2014.
Entries on “International Relations” and “Influence of Social Movements”, The Oxford International
Encyclopedia of Peace, edited by Nigel Young, Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Comparing the Size and Influence of the Movements Against the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq,”
Bulletin of the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Fall 2008.
“Portraits of Grief” (with Samira Alic, Diler Erdeniz, Elizabeth Park, Katherine Porter, and Julia
Torgovitskaya), Contexts vol. 6, no.3 (Summer) 2007.
Reprinted in David Newman (ed.) Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Pine Forge Press,
Thousand Oaks, CA., 2008.
Entries on “Militarism” and “Demilitarization,” Encyclopedia of Social Problems, edited by Vincent
Parrillo, Sage Publishers, 2008.
“Beyond Accusation and Self-Pity: Exhibiting World War Two in Japanese and United States Peace
Museums,” Peace Review 14:4 (2002): 465-480.
“Forgetting and Remembering Hiroshima in the U.S.,” Peace Review 12:2 (2000): 291-297.
“Maori and the Market: The Waitangi Tribunal,” Race and Class 41:4 (2000): 59-80.
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"Individualism and Peace Culture," Peace Review, August, 1994.
"Direct and Indirect Impact of the Movement Against the Vietnam War," in Jayne Werner and
Luu Doan Huynh (eds.) Essays on the History of the Vietnam War, M.E. Sharpe Publishers,
1992.
"Making Threats: Social Roots of the Oscillation Between Deterrence and Nuclear Warfighting,"
Sociological Quarterly, Autumn, 1985.
"Experiencing Exercise Withdrawal: Possible Consequences of Therapeutic and Mastery
Running," (with James Robbins), Journal of Sport Psychology, 1985, 7, 23-29.
"The Strategic and Theater Nuclear Balance," (with Hayes Gladstone) in Search for Sanity:
Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, Boston: South End Press, 1984.
"Living With Nuclear Weapons," (with Simon Rosenblum) in Search for Sanity: Politics of
Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, Boston: South End Press, 1984.
"Nuclear Strategies and American Foreign Policy," Socialist Register, 1983.
reprinted as "Stratagie nuclearia e politica estera america," in Problemi del Socialismo,
1, 1984.
"From MAD to NUTS: The Increasing Danger of Nuclear War," Socialist Review, #61, pp. 1356, 1982.
reprinted in The Disarmament Reader published by the Riverside Church, 1983.
reprinted in Unfinished Business: The Best of Socialist Review, Verso Publishers, 1991.
"Runner or Worker: The Impact of Commitment to Running and Work Satisfaction on SelfIdentification," (with James Robbins) in Michael Sacks and Michael Sachs (eds.) Psychology of
Running, Human Kinetics Press, 1981.
"Commitment to Running: Implications for the Family and Work," (with James Robbins),
Sociological Symposium, #30 (Spring 1980); pp. 87-108.
"U.S. Foreign Policy and Eurocommunism" in Carl Boggs and David Plotke (eds.) The Politics
of Eurocommunism, Boston: South End Press, 1979.
"Reform und Konterrevolution: Die USA und die Internationale Okonomie," Das Argument,
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#116, (July-August 1979); pp. 500-512.
"The Politics of `Good' and `Bad' Information in the National Security Bureaucracy," Politics
and Society, Vol. 7, no. 1 (Summer 1977); pp. 105-126.
"Thirty Years of U.S. Imperialism in Vietnam," (with Banning Garrett), Socialist Revolution,
#25, (July-September 1975); pp. 9-58.
"The Making of United States Social Policy in Vietnam, 1963-1965," Socialist Revolution, #15,
(May-June 1973); pp. 113-56.
"Sociology and Futurology: Reply to Irving Louis Horowitz," (with David Plotke), Berkeley
Journal of Sociology, Vol. XIX (1974-75); pp. 55-60.
Performances and Exhibitions
Guest curator, “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Fallout,” Exhibition at Aidekman Art Gallery, Fall 1998.
Producer, “Peacemaking and the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” a ceremony of the Peace Studies
Association in cooperation with the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto,
Japan, 1995.
Travelogue
“Whistling in Chennai,” published online at TravelMag http://travelmag.co.uk/?p=9007
“Family in Fiji,” published online at Off the Beaten Track www.off-thebeaten-track.net February 2010.
“A Family Adventure off the Beaten Track in Fiji (with photographs),” The Boston Globe, Travel
section, September 3, 2000.
reprinted in The Tufts Journal as “Adventures in Fiji,” October 2000.
Essays
Review of Stories of Inclusion? Power, Privilege, and Difference in the Peace and Justice Network, by
Deborah Piatelli, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 38, no. 6, November 2009: 561-62.
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Review of Empire and the Bomb by Joseph Gerson in Peaceworks, Summer 2007.
“Remembering Hiroshima in the United States,” Introduction to Teiko Sadako Okuda, A Dimly Burning
Wick He Will Not Quench: The Stories of Children in the Ruins of Hiroshima, translated by Pamela
Vergun.
Review of War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat, in Social Forces, 2007.
Review of Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War, by Mary Hershberger in The
Journal of American History, September 2000: 752-3.
“A Tale of Two Movements” reviews of Resisting the Bomb by Lawrence Wittner and Telltale Hearts
by Adam Garfinkle in New Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer 1998): 161-165.
Review of Why Did the Cold War End? Edited by Michael Salla and Ralph Summy in Social
Alternatives, July 1996.
Review of Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies, by Linda Forcey in Contemporary Sociology,
March 1991.
"Changes in Eastern Europe and the Future of U.S. Politics," Dissent, Spring 1990.
"End of the Cold War? Implications of the INF Treaty," Socialist Review, July - September
1988, Vol. 88, No. 3; pp. 117-126.
"Review of Campaigns for Peace, (edited Richard Taylor and Nigel Young), Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, XIX, No. 3, Winter 1989, pp. 502-504.
"Review of Strategy and History" by Edward Luttwak, Contemporary Sociology, September
1986.
"Rethinking Vietnam," review of George Kahin's Intervention Mother Jones, April, 1986.
"War, State and Society," Review of book by same title edited by Martin Shaw, Contemporary
Sociology, 14:2 (March, 1985) 267-268.
"Nuclear Proliferation and World Military-Industrial Complexes," review essay in Journal of
Political and Military Sociology, August 1985.
"In Search of a Theory of Race and Class," (Review essay of Declining Significance of Race
by William Wilson), Theory and Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, March 1981.
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"Sports and Politics in the U.S.S.R. and China," (review essay), Socialist Review, #50/51
(April-June 1980); pp. 265-78.
"Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cox," Harvard Education Review, Vol. 47, No. 4,
(November 1977); pp. 57-576.
"Yankees and Cowboys?", Socialist Revolution, (Review essay of Power Shift by Kirkpatrick
Sale); pp. 117-32, #30 (September - October 1976).
Published Syllabi
“Sociology of War and Peace,” Peace, War and Social Change” section, Curriculum Guide, American
Sociological Association, Summer 2007.
"Sociology of War and Peace," in American Sociological Association Guide to Peace Studies,
1991.
"U.S., Vietnam, and the War," in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Special Issue
"Indochina and the War," Volume 21, Nos. 2-4, 1989.
Commentary
“Why is the Antiwar Movement Stalled: Another Look,” commentary posted to
[email protected], August 8, 2010.
“War Managing: Three Surges, Two Antiwar Movements, and One War System,” Z Magazine, May
2010: 36-40.
“Shooting War,” Tufts Magazine, Fall, 2006: 33-37.
“The Antiwar Movement – Then and Now,” Peaceworks, vol.30, issue 335: 10-11. May 2003.
“Teaching the Vietnam War” (Interview), Tuftonia, February 2000.
"U.S. Politics and the INF Treaty," Democratic Left, May-June 1988, XVI, No. 3, pp. 15-16,
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"Se l'alibi non e pui la guerra fredda," Rinascita, October 29, 1988, Vol. 45, No. 39, p. 31.
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"Primer on SDI," Economic Notes, Vol. 54, No. 10, October 1986.
"Contemporary Social Conditions in Laos," Indochina Newsletter, June 1986.
"In Vietnam, The South is Rising Again," In These Times, April 19, 1986.
"Vietnamese Trying to Find a Way Out," In These Times, March 11, 1986.
"Studying the Vietnamese People Provides New Lessons About the War," Boston Sunday Globe,
May 4, 1986.
"Labor Primer for Peace," Economic Notes, Vol. 52, No. 9, September 1984.
"Perspective for the Nuclear Freeze," Tufts Criterion, April 1983.
"The Realities of Nuclear War," Economic Notes, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 1983.
"Double Jeopardy," In These Times, April 21-27, 1982.
"What Makes Sammy- and Suzie- Run?," Moving On, May 1979.
"Perspective: On South Africa; Arguments for Divestment," Tufts Criterion, October 1979.
"Jogging: Who's Doing It, Who's Selling It," Dollars and Sense, March 1978.
"Conservative Field Day in Vietnam," In These Times, April 14, 1980.
"Social Context of Jogging," In These Times, November 1978.
"South Vietnam Since the `Cease Fire'," Socialist Review, #8.
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