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VITA

Stjepan Gabriel Mestrovic

EDUCATION

B.A., Psychology and Harvard University 1976

Social Relations

Master of Education Harvard University 1977

In Clinical Psychology

Master of Theological Harvard University 1979

Studies

Ph.D., Sociology Syracuse University 1982

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, from

1991 to the present

Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at Lander College, tenured in

1988, Greenwood, South Carolina, from August 1981 to 1990.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RELATED TO WAR CRIMES

Consultant and expert witness in sociology pertaining to genocide in Bosnia-

Herzegovina at the International Court of the Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the

Hague, Netherlands in the Dario Kordic case 2000-2001

Consultant and expert witness in sociology and psychology at the court-martial

pertaining to abuse at Abu Ghraib for Javal Davis at Ft. Hood, Texas, February

2005

Consultant and expert witness in sociology and psychology at the court-martial

pertaining to abuse at Abu Ghraib for Sabrina Harman at Ft. Hood, Texas, May

2005

Consultant and expert witness in sociology and psychology at the court-martial

pertaining to abuse at Abu Ghraib for Lynndie England at Ft. Hood, Texas,

September 2005

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Consultant and expert witness in sociology for the court-martial of Corey Clagett

in the Operation Iron Triangle killings case scheduled for Ft. Campbell,

Kentucky, January 2007, settled in a plea bargain

Consultant and expert witness in sociology at the court-martial of Michael P.

Leahy in the Baghdad canal killings case, held at US Army base in Vilseck,

Germany, February 2009

Testified at Army Clemency and Parole Board hearing for Corey Clagett in

Alexandria, Virginia on April 1, 2009

Testified at Army Clemency and Parole Board hearing for William Hunsaker in

Alexandria, Virginia on November 3, 2009

Consultant and expert witness in sociology at the court-martial of Jeremy

Morlock in the Afghanistan “kill team” case, held at Ft. Lewis, March 2011

Consultant and expert witness in sociology at the court-martial of Specialist Ryan

Offutt in the Danny Chen suicide and negligent homicide case, held at Ft. Bragg

in August 2012

Consultant and expert witness in sociology at the federal trial of US v Michael

Smith in the beating death of an inmate at an Alabama state prison, Birmingham,

Alabama, October 2013

SUBSTANTIVE AREAS

Sociological theory (especially Durkheim and functionalism), classical sociology,

the sociology of law, war crimes, genocide, mental health law, postmodernism,

cultural studies, deviance; race & ethnic relations in the Balkans

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS HELD

Syracuse University Fellowship, 1979-1980 and 1980-1981.

Doctoral dissertation passed with distinction at Syracuse University.

Recipient of the 1983 Syracuse University Graduate School Prize for excellence

in doctoral research and scholarly achievement.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellow at Duke University,

1983, in Professor Edward A. Tiryakian's seminar entitled "Great Schools and the

Development of the Social Sciences."

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Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to conduct research on mental health and psychiatric

commitment in India, Summer of 1985.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1986-

1987, to work on a project entitled "Durkheim as Philosopher."

Honorable Mention in the 1987 American Sociological Association Theory Prize

Competition for the essay entitled "Durkheim's Concept of Anomie as

Dereglement" published in Social Problems in 1985.

1990 Humanities Lecturer at Texas A&M University, "Postmodernism and the

Fall of Communism in the Coming Fin de Siecle," April 19, 1990, award of

$1,000.

Spring 1990 International Enhancement Grant for research on Yugoslav

communism (TAMU, $750).

Summer 1990 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, $500

Fulbright lecture/research award to teach and conduct research at the University

of Zagreb in Croatia as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program, Fall of 1992

Distinguished Article Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

for the best paper published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in

1991 for "Reappraising Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious Life"

Project Development Grant, National Academy of Sciences, Soviet and Eastern

European Affairs, for June of 1993, $2000

Departmental Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, 1992-1993,

Texas A&M Liberal Arts International Travel Grant, $500, to support the

presentation of a paper presented to the European Movement, Gorizia, Italy,

September 24, 1993

Texas A&M University College-Wide Teaching Award, 1994

The Strossmayer Award for The Balkanization of the West, October 22, 1995

American Cultural Diversity Curriculum Development Grant, $1000, June 1995

International Curriculum Grant from the Office of the Assistant Provost for

International Programs, $900, for 1996

International Research Travel Assistance Grants Program, $908, for 1996

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Fallon-Marshall Lecture at Texas A&M University on “Professional Ethics,

Honor, and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib,” 2007

Two Office of the Provost grants, approximately $10,000 each, for research that

led to the publication of two books, in the past seven years

Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished

Achievement Award in Teaching 2015

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

"In the Shadow of Plato: Durkheim and Freud on Suicide and Society." A

primary source theoretical analysis of the major writings of Freud and Durkheim.

The philosophical heritage involved in Durkheim's use of "representations" and its

Freudian equivalent of "Vorstellung," and their renovation of rationalism, are

analyzed in the classical context of Plato.

Dissertation advisor: Barry Glassner, currently Provost at the University of

Southern California.

TEACHING AREAS

Sociological Theory, Classical Social Theory, Postmodernism, Sociology of

Religion, Culture, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Race and Ethnic

Studies in the Balkans, War Crimes, Durkheim, Veblen

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Edited Works

1. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, Totowa, NJ: Rowman &

Littlefield, 1988.

2. The Coming Fin de Siecle: An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to

Modernity and Postmodernity. London: Routledge, 1991, reprinted in 2013

3. Durkheim and Postmodern Culture. Berlin: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992

4. The Road From Paradise:The Possibility of Democracy in Eastern Europe.

Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993

5. Habits of the Balkan Heart: Social Character and the Fall of Communism.

Texas A&M University Press, 1993

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6. The Barbarian Temperament:Towards a Postmodern Critical Theory. London:

Routledge, 1993 also translated into Turkish, reissued in 2013

7. The Balkanization of the West:The Confluence of Postmodernism With

Postcommunism, London: Routledge, 1994

8. Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist, London: Routledge, 1998 (translated

into Chinese in 2008), reissued in 2014

9. Genocide After Emotion: The Postemotional Balkan War, London: Routledge,

1996, reissued in 2013

10. Postemotional Society, London: Sage, 1997, also translated into Turkish

11. This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia (co-edited

with Thomas Cushman), New York University Press, 1996

12. The Conceit of Innocence: How the Conscience of the West was Lost in the

War against Bosnia, Texas A&M University Press, 1997

13. Thorstein Veblen on Theory, Culture and Society. London: Sage

Publications, 2004.

14. The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor.

Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publications, 2007

15. Heart of Stone: My Grandfather, Ivan Mestrovic. Zagreb, Croatia: Mozaik

Publishers, 2007

16. Rules of Engagement? A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime—

Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. New York: Algora, 2008

17. The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the U.S.

Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq. New York: Algora, 2009

18. My copyrighted lectures, supporting materials, and documents pertaining to

SOCI 657, Cultural Studies: War Crimes, on Texas A&M University’s itunes

webpage: http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/soci-657-cultural-

studies/id394384077

19. Strike and Destroy: When Counter-Insurgency [COIN] Doctrine Met

Hellraiser’s Brigade or, the Fate of Corporal Morlock. New York: Algora, 2012

20. The Postemotional Bully. London, Sage, 2014.

21. The Roots of Postemotional Theory, forthcoming with Routledge 2016

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Translations of my books

Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist was translated into Chinese in 2008 under

the title, Jidengsi: zu hou ji wei xian dai zhu yi zhe, translated by Weimig Huang,

Taipei

The Barbarian Temperament was translated into Turkish in 2004 by Mehmet

Ozay under the title, Uygar Barbaruk: bir postmodern elestiri teorisi

Postemotional Society is currently being translated into Chinese

The Coming Fin de Siecle was translated into Turkish in 2015 under the title

Duyguotesi Toplum by the publisher Ayrinti Yayinlan

Reviews of my published books

Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology has been reviewed by S.M.

Soiffer in CHOICE, July/August 1989; Robert T. Hall in Social Forces, 68:3,

March 1990, pp. 1007-8; Marco Orru in American Journal of Sociology, 1990,

pp. 228-30; Charles E. Marske in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 19(1), 1990, pp.

145-6; W.S.F. Pickering in The Sociological Review, 38(3), August 1990, pp.

573-5; Roy G. Francis in Sociological Inquiry, Fall 1990, Volume 60(4):444-7;

Gregory C. Leavitt in Sociological Inquiry, Summer 1991, Volume 61(3):416-7;

by Jacques Berlinerblau in The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 19, 2012

The Coming Fin de Siecle has been reviewed in the London Times Literary

Supplement, 15 February 1991; by S.M. Soiffer CHOICE Magazine, June, 1991;

Bob Jessop in History of the Human Sciences, Volume 4, Number 3, October

1991, pp. 455-7; Frances MacCrae in Contemporary Sociology, Volume 21,

Number 4, July 1992, pp. 543-4; by Harry F. Dahms in The Simmel Newsletter,

Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 1993, pp. 85-87; in Vorstellungen (Newsletter of

the North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society), Volume 2, Number 1,

February 1994, pp. 3-4; C.G. Schoenfeld in The Journal of Psychiatry and Law,

Spring 1993, pp. 135-40; by Keith Tester in Social Science Quarterly, June 1994,

Volume 75, Number 2; by Robert Fyne in The Social Science Journal, 1994,

Volume 31, Number 2, pages 209-210. Review essays by Frank Ettrich,

"Solidarity, Liberalism, and the Fin de Siecle Spirit," Berlin Journal for Sociology

1993, volume 3, number 4, pp. 569-579; and by William A. Reese, "The Coming

Fin de Siecle: An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and

Postmodernism," Social Science Journal, 1992, volume 29, number 2, pp. 233-

238; by Bram Peper in Tudschrift Voor Sociologie Volume 16, Number 3, pp.

328-330, 1995;by Abby Peterson in Acta Sociologica volume 39, number 4, 1996,

pp. 456-9; by P. Beilharz, Thesis Eleven, 38(1), pp. 163-5, 1994; by Donald

Nielsen, Social Forces, 75(1), p. 346, 1996; by Marcel Fournier, Contemporary

Sociology, 23(6), pp. 908-9, 1994

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Durkheim and Postmodern Culture has been reviewed in CHOICE by M.I. Keen,

January 1993, p. 889; in Social Forces by Ira J. Cohen, Volume 72, Number 1, pp.

265-6; reviewed extensively in Jonathan Fish, “Stjepan Mestrovic and Michael

Maffesolli’s implosive defense of the Durkheimian tradition: theoretical

convergences around Baudrillard’s thesis on the end of the social” in Sociological

Review 51(2), pp. 257-275, 2003

The Road From Paradise: Prospects for Democracy in Eastern Europe was

reviewed by Ivo Banac in Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1993, pp. 550-51; by

Jim Lotz in Together:A Journal of Cooperation and Community, Volume 6,

Number 1, Winter 1994, pp.. 10-11; by M.F. Keen, CHOICE Magazine,

December 1993; Orbis, Volume 37, Number 4, Summer 1993, pages 680-81; by

Patrick H. Mooney in Rural Sociology, Volume 58 (4), 1993, pp. 643-45; by V.J.

Chalupa in Social Justice Review (Sept/Oct) 1993, pp. 154-57; by Wallace Gagne

in The Daily Yomiuri, 6 June 1993; by Donald C. Snedeker in The Friday Review

of Defense Literature, 25 March 1994, Volume 94, Number 9, pp 2-3; by

Bronislaw Misztal in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 33

(March) 1994, pages 95-96; in the Educational Book Review, May-June 1994, p.

40; by Judith B. Sedaitis in Contemporary Sociology, Volume 24, Number 1,

January 1995, pages 23-24;

Habits of the Balkan Heart reviewed by E.M. Despalatovic in CHOICE

Magazine, October 1994, p. 370; by Thomas Cushman in Contemporary

Sociology, Volume 24, Number 1, January 1995, pages 33-35; by C.G.

Schoenfeld, The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Fall 1994, pp. 425-427; by

Andrei Simic in Slavic Review, 1995, pp. 813-14; by Clifford Poirot in Journal of

Economic Issues, volume 31 (March) 1997, pp. 233-44; in Ethnic and Racial

Studies 18(1), pp. 131-2, 1995

The Barbarian Temperament reviewed by C.A. Pressler in CHOICE Magazine,

December 1994, p. 683; by John Armitage [under the title "Heart of Darkness"] in

Radical Philosophy, volume 70, p. 47, March 17, 1995; by Abby Peterson in Acta

Sociologica volume 39, number 4, 1996, pp. 456-9; by Nathan Sznaider, Journal

of Cultural Research 2(1) p. 117, 1998; Slobodan Drakulic, Critical Sociology,

22(2), pp. 136-138, 1996; W. Sproule in Australian and New Zealand Journal of

Sociology 30(1) p. 191, 1994

The Balkanization of the West reviewed by Gabriel Patros in International

Affairs, March 24, 1995; by Francis Fukuyama in Foreign Affairs March/April

1995, pp. 143-144; by Krishan Kumaar in Sociology, May 1995, pp. 376-378; by

George Blazyca [under the title, "The Balkan Backlash"] in The Times Higher

Education Supplement 24 March 1995, p. 31; by B.J. Macdonald in CHOICE

November 1995, p. 535; in Studia Diplomatica, Number 4, 1995; by Yugo

Kovach in South Slav Journal, Vol 16, Number 1-2, p. 104, 1995; by Garth

Massey in Contemporary Sociology January 1996, pp. 69-70; by B.J. Macdonald

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in CHOICE November 1995, Volume 33, Number 3, p. 771; by John B. Allcock

in The Slavonic Review December 1997, pp. 574-5; by D. Hall in European

Urban and Regional Studies 2(3), pp. 277-8, 1995;

This Time We Knew was reviewed by Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times

("Turning a Blind Eye to Genocide in Bosnia") on 1 November 1996, page E8; by

Kenneth J. Campbell in Ethics & International Affairs, 1997 volume 11, pp. 320-

21; by P. Vannicelli in CHOICE (May) 1997, Volume 34, Number 9; by Sarah A.

Kent as part of an omnibus review, "Writing the Yugoslav Waars: English-

Language Books on Bosnia" in American Historical Review Volume 102, number

4 (October) 1997, pp. 1085-1114; by John Williams, Europe-Asia Studies volume

49, Number 7, November 1997, pp. 1340-1; by Alma Begicevic and Jennifer

Balint in Contemporary Sociology volume 27, Number 5, September 1998, pp.

515-17; Robert M. Hayden, Current Anthropology Dec. 38(5) pp. 924-26, 1997;

by John Williams in International Peacekeeping, 6(2), p. 23, 1999; by Mihailo

Crnobrinja in Canadian Journal of Political Science 30(2), pp. 401-402, 1997;

response to Robert Hayden by Thomas Cushman in Anthropological Theory 5(4),

pp. 559-564, 2005

Genocide After Emotion was reviewed by Judith Pintar in Contemporary

Sociology, volume 26, number 3, (May 1997), pp. 342-43; by E.M. Despalatovic,

CHOICE, October 1996, p. 1091; in South Slav Journal 22(1), pp. 136-7, 2001;

by Nicholas Miller in Slavic Review 57(2) pp. 440-1, 1998; by Jonathan Landay

in SAIS Review 17(2), pp. 182-86, 1997; by Cathie Carmichael, Slavonic and East

European Review, 75(4), pp. 774-75, 1997

The Conceit of Innocence was reviewed by Mark Danner as part of an omnibus

review, "America and the Bosnia Genocide," New York Review of Books, 4

December 1997, pp. 55-65; by E.N. Borz in CHOICE, Volume 35, Number 8,

April 1998, p. 653; by Adam Garfinkle in The Times Literary Supplement 12

June 1998, p. 18; by Francine Friedman in Slavic Review, Volume 57, Number 4,

Winter of 1998, pp. 902-03; in Contemporary Sociology, 26(3), pp. 342-3, May

1997;

Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist was reviewed by Christiane Bender in

Contemporary Sociology, July, 29(4), pp. 677-678, 2000; by Charles Camic in

The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 536-38, 1999; Thomas

Johansson, Acta Sociologica, Vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 87-88, 1999; by Mike Gane in

Radical Philosophy, vol. 98, p. 51, 1999;

Postemotional Society was reviewed by Simon J. Williams in the Journal of

Sociology, December 1997, pp. 823-5; by John Rice in Contemporary Sociology,

Volume 27, Number 5, September 1998, pp. 539-540; by Bryan Turner in

Society, 1999; by Richard Roberts in International Review of Sociology, 11(3),

pp. 331-2, 2001; Peter Stankovic in Theory and Praxis 34(5), pp. 903-5, 1997

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The Trials of Abu Ghraib was reviewed in “Explaining Abu Ghraib” by C.J.

Einoff in Journal of Human Rights Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 110-120, 2009; Peter Van

Ham in Security Dialogue, 41(2), pp. 217-23, 2010; Steven Koven in Public

Integrity 11(4), p. 347, 2009; by George R. Mastroianni in Parameters, Journal of

the U.S. Army War College, Autumn 2007, pp. 131-33

The Postemotional Bully was reviewed by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher

Education on 27 May 2015

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/05/27/review-stjepan-

mestrovic-postemotional-bully

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MY DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Keith Kerr, Postmodern Cowboy: C. Wright Mills and a New 21st Century

Sociology. Paradigm, 2009

Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Fallgirls. Ashgate, 2012

Ronald Lorenzo, The Puritan Culture of America’s Military, Ashgate 2014

B. Garrick Harden and Robert Carley (eds.), Co-opting Culture: Culture and

Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies. Lexington, 2009

Keith Kerr, Garrick Harden, and Marcus Aldredge (eds.), David Riesman’s

Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy, Ashgate 2015

Published .Research Articles and Essays

1. "A Durkheimian Hypothesis on Stress" (co-authored with Barry Glassner)

lead article in Social Science and Medicine, Volume 17, Number 18, pp. 1315-

1327, 1983.

2. "Need for Treatment and New York's Revised Commitment Laws: An

Empirical Assessment" The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume

6, pp. 75-88, 1983.

3. "Durkheim's Concept of the Unconscious" in Current Perspectives in Social

Theory, edited by Scott McNall, Volume 5, pp. 267-288, Greenwich, JAI Press,

1984.

4. "An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of the Revised Commitment Laws in

South Carolina," The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, Volume

79, Number 9, pp. 369-493, 1982.

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5. "Admission Patterns at South Carolina's State Psychiatric Hospitals Following

Legislative Reform," The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Volume 10, Number 4,

pp. 457-469, 1982.

6. "Overturning Psychiatric Commitments at a New York State Mental Hospital:

Implications for the Societal Reaction Model" Sociology of Health and Illness,

Volume 7, Number 1, pp. 1-20, 1985.

7. "Anomia and Sin in Durkheim's Thought" lead article in Journal for the

Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 24, Number 2, pp. 119-136, 1985.

8. "Durkheim's Renovated Rationalism and the Idea that 'Collective Life is Only

Made of Representations'", Current Perspectives in Social Theory, edited by Scott

McNall, Volume 6, pp. 199-218, 1985.

9. "A Sociological Conceptualization of Trauma," lead article in Social Science

and Medicine, Volume 21, Number 8, pp. 835-848, 1985.

10. "Durkheim's Concept of Anomie as Dereglement" (co-authored with Helen

Brown) lead article in Social Problems, Volume 33, Number 2, pp. 81-99,

December 1985.

11. "The Dangerousness Standard: What Is It and How Is It Used?" (co-authored

with John Cook) The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 8,

Number 4, pp. 443-470, 1986.

12. "Derangement in the Study of Derangement: A Review of the Literature on

the New Psychiatric Commitment Laws," Medicine and Law, Volume 5, pp. 405-

415, 1986.

13. "On Childism as Prejudice" (co-authored with John Cook) Psychiatric Forum,

Volume 14, Number 1, pp. 34-41, Winter 1988.

14. "Magic and Psychiatric Commitment in India" The International Journal of

Law and Psychiatry, Volume 9, Number 4, pp. 431-449, 1986.

15. "Durkheim's Concept of Anomie Considered as a Total Social Fact," The

British Journal of Sociology, Volume 38, Number 4, pp. 567-583, 1987.

16. "Durkheim's Conceptualization of Political Anomie" lead article in Research

in Political Sociology, Volume 4, pp. 1-26, 1989.

17. "The Social World as Will and Idea: Schopenhauer's Influence Upon

Durkheim's Thought," Sociological Review, Volume 39, pp. 674-705,

(November) 1988.

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18. "Schopenhauer's Will and Idea in Durkheim's Methodology" in Barry

Glassner and Jonathan D. Moreno (eds.), The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction

in the Social Sciences, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989, pp. 99-118.

19. "Durkheim, Schopenhauer and the Relationship Between Goals and Means:

Reversing the Assumptions in the Parsonian Theory of Social Action,"

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 52, Number 2, pp. 163-181, Spring 1988.

20. "Simmel's Sociology in Relation to Schopenhauer's Philosophy" in Michael

Kaern (ed.), Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology, Boston: Kluwer

Academic Publishers, 1990, pp. 181-197.

21. "Durkheim's Concept of Justice and its Relationship to Social Solidarity,"

(co-authored with E. Schoenfeld), lead article in Sociological Analysis, Volume

50, Number 2, pp. 111-127, 1989.

22. "Rethinking the Will and Idea of Sociology in the Light of Schopenhauer's

Philosophy," The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 40, Number 2, pp. 271-

293, 1989.

23. "Searching for the Starting Points of Scientific Inquiry: Durkheim's Rules of

Sociological Method and Schopenhauer's Philosophy," Sociological Inquiry,

Volume 59, Number 3, pp. 267-286, 1989.

24. "Reappraising Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious Life in the

Context of Schopenhauer's Philosophy," lead article in Journal for the Scientific

Study of Religion, Volume 28, Number 3, pp. 255-272, 1989.

25. "The Theme of Civilization and Its Discontents in Durkheim's Division of

Labor: Philosophical Assumptions and Practical Consequences," Journal for the

Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 19, Number 4, pp. 443-456, 1989.

26. "Moral Theory Based on the 'Heart' Versus the 'Mind': Schopenhauer's and

Durkheim's Critiques of Kantian Ethics," lead article in Sociological Review,

Volume 37, Number 3 (August), pp. 431-457, 1989.

27. "From Durkheim to Habermas: The Role of Language in Moral Theory" (co-

authored with Anthony J. Cortese), Current Perspectives in Social Theory,

Volume 10, pp. 63-91, 1990.

28. "Reply to Delaney: Pure Perceptions Versus Conceptual Knowledge,"

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 60, Number 3 (Summer), pp. 308-310, 1990.

29. "Mead and Durkheim on the Relationship of Fictions, Symbols, and

Representations to Morality," Journal of Mental Imagery, Vomume 15, Numbers

1 and 2, Spring/Summer, pp. 141-146, 1991.

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30. "Sustaining Community in the Age of Postmodernism," The World and I,

Volume 5, Number 10, October, pp. 525-35, 1990.

31. "Habits of the Heart: Eastern Europe and the Possibility of Democracy," The

World and I, Volume 6, Number 3, March, pp. 574-93, 1991.

32. "Introduction" to special issue of Sociological Focus devoted to "The

Sociology of Morals," Volume 24, Number 2, May, pp. 79-82, 1991 (with E.

Schoenfeld).

33. "With Justice and Mercy: Instrumental-Masculine and Expressive-Feminine

Elements in Religion," The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (co-

authored with E. Schoenfeld), Volume 30, Number 4, pp. 363-80, December

1991.

34. "Why East Europe's Upheavals Caught Social Scientists Off Guard," op-ed in

The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 1991, Vol. 38, No. 5, p. A56

35. "From the Sacred Collectivity to the Sacred Individual: The

Misunderstood Durkheimian Legacy." Sociological Focus, Vol 24, Number 2,

May, pp. 83-92, 1991.

36. "Promoting Democracy in Yugoslavia," The

World and I, Volume 7, Number 1, pp. 208-213, (January) 1992

37. "Ivan Mestrovic, Croatian Sculptor," The

World and I, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 202-207 (February) 1992

38. "The Fate of Yugoslavia and the New World Order," Social Justice Review,

volume 83, Numbers 9-10 (September-October), pp. 153-157, 1992.

39. "A Cultural Analysis of the Fall of Communism," Journal of Interdisciplinary

Studies, Volume 4, No. 1/2, pp.104-120, 1992

40. "War-watching in the Balkans," Acque & Terre (April):56-58, 1993.

41. "The West as Postmodern Voyeur in the Balkans," Impact International

(July/August):27-28, 1993.

42. "De Durkheim a l'ere postmoderne en education et au-dela" pp. 157-66 in

Durkheim, Sociologue de l'Education, edited by F. Cardi and J. Plantier, pp. 157-

66, Paris:L'Harmattan, 1993.

43. "Sociological, Psychiatric, and Legal Aspects of the Current Balkan War"

(co-authored with Miroslav Goreta) pp. 217-25 in Mental Health Law and

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Practice Through the Life Cycle, edited by Simon N. Verdun-Jones and Monique

Layton, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1994.

44. "Introduction to David Riesman's Thorstein Veblen," Pp. ix-xxx, New

Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1995

45. "Introduction to Harry Alpert's Emile Durkheim and His Sociology, pp. 1-12,

London: Gregg Revivals, 1993

46. "Postemotional Politics in the Balkans" Society, Volume 32, Number 2,

January/February 1995, pp. 69-77.

47. Exchange with Daniel Kofman on "Postemotional Politics in the Balkans,"

Society, Volume 32, Number 5, July/August 1995, pp. 7-10

48. "After Emotion: Ethnic Cleansing in the Former Yugoslavia and Beyond," Pp.

251-271 in The Future of Anthropology, edited by Akbar Ahmed and Cris Shore,

London: The Athlone Press, 1995

49. "The Balkanization of Sociology," Sociological Imagination 33(3-4):202-214,

1996

50. "The Balkanization of the Balkans," Society, Volume 34, Number 1,

November/December: pages 70-80, 1996

51. "Will Bosnia Survive Postmodernity," in The Postmodern Challenge, edited

by Bo Strath and Nina Witoszek, Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi Editions, 1999,

pp. 47-60.

52. "A Reply from the 'Dangerous Heretic'," Soziale Welt, Volume 49, 1998, pp.

91-96.

53. "Postemotional Politics: Civil War or Aggression: Is the Choice of

Terminology Important?" Gaudeamus Number 16-17, June 1998, pp. 5-13.

54. "The 'Real' Causes of Genocide Against Bosnia?"in Mladen Grbin and Carole

Hodge (eds) Sigurnost i Stabilnost u Jugoistocnoj Europi, Zagreb, 2000

55. "The Postemotional Self," The Psychohistory Review Volume 27, Number 2,

Winter 1999, pp. 59-71.

56. “David Riesman,” Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, edited by Cashmore &

Rojek, pp. 404-406, Arnold Publishers, 1999

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57. “Making Sense of the Present: Citizenship and Democracy in Postemotional

and Postcommunist Societies” Review for Sociology Volume 29, No. 3-4, 1999,

pp. 167-178.

58. “Between Postmodernism and Postcommunism: The Future of Croatia,”

Croatian Review Volume 48, Number 4, December 1998, pp. 849-861.

59. “Why East Europe’s Upheavals Caught Social Scientists Off Guard,” in Larry

Reynolds (ed.), Self-Analytical Sociology: Essays and Explorations in the

Reflexive Mode, 2000

60. “Postemotional Law,” Law Text Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2000

61 “Appreciating Veblen Without Idealizing or Demonizing Him” International

Journal of Politics, Culture and Society Volume 16 (1) 2002, pp. 153-57.

62. “The Toxic Social Spill from Abu Ghraib” Society Vol 43, Number 5,

July/August 2006, pp. 5-13

63. “Abu Ghraib as Postemotional Society” revise and resubmit with Sociological

Review

64. “Durkheim’s Concept of Anomie and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib” Journal of

Classical Sociology Volume 8, Number 2, 179-207 (2008) [co-authored with

Ronald Lorenzo]

65. “The Role of Gender in ‘Expressive’ Abuse at Abu Ghraib” Cultural

Sociology Volume 2, Number 3, 275-299 (2008) [co-authored with Ryan Ashley

Caldwell]

66. “Torture, What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing? An Analysis of the

Response to Abuse at Abu Ghraib,” [co-authored with Ryan Ashley Caldwell]

Theory in Action, Volume 1, Number 4, October 2008

67. “Europe as a Postemotional Idea” in Sage Handbook on Europe edited by

Chris Rumford, London: Sage, 2009

68. “Introduction” to Postmodern Cowboy: C. Wright Mills and a New 21st

Century Sociology by Keith Kerr, Paradigm Publishers, 2009

69. “Preface” to Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural

Studies edited by B. Garrick Harden and Robert Carley, Lexington Books, 2009

70. “Bauman and the Drama of Abu Ghraib” in Bauman’s Challenge, edited by

Keith Tester, London: McMillan, 2010

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71. “The War on Terrorism in the Early 21st Century: Applying Lessons from

Sociological Classics and Sites of Abuse” [co-authored with Ryan Ashley

Caldwell] in Handbook of War and Society edited by Morton Ender and Steve

Carlton-Ford, pages 88-99, London: Routledge 2011 [Note: this edited book by

Ender and Carlton-Ford won the best book prize in the Peace and War section of

the American Sociological Association in 2012]

72. “Durkheim’s Concept of Dereglement Retranslated, Parsons’s Reading of

Durkheim Re-parsed: An Examination of Post-Emotional Displacement,

Scapegoating and Responsibility at Abu Ghraib” [co-authored with Ryan Ashley

Caldwell] in Durkheim and Violence, edited by S. Romi Mukherjee, Wiley-

Blackwell, 2010

73. “Vicious Abstractionism and the Struggle for Existence of Veblen’s and

Durkheim’s Ideas” in the Turkish journal, Sosyoloi Dergiri Vol 21, 2010

73. “Documenting the Documentaries on Abu Ghraib: Facts Versus Distortion” in

Screening Torture, edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola Salek, New York:

Columbia University Press, 2012

74. “Poisoned Social Climate, Collective Responsibility, and the Abuse at Abu

Ghraib—Or, the Establishment of “Rule That Is Lack of Rule” International

Journal of Law and Psychiatry Volume 36(1): pp. 62-69, 2012

75. “Sociological Evidence in Courts-Martial Pertaining to War Crimes,” in

Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology, Springer, 2014

76. “Reflections Upon my Interview with David Riesman,” pp. 167-181 in Kerr,

Harden, Aldredge (eds.) David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing

Legacy. Ashgate, 2015

77. “Series Editor’s Introduction” pp. 1-10 in Kerr, Harden, Aldredge (eds.)

David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy. Ashgate, 2015

78. “Postemotional law in consumer society” in A. Martinez (ed) Being Human in

a Consumer Society, Ashgate 2015

Book Reviews

1. Review of Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts

on Sociology and its Method, by Steven Lukes, Social Forces, Volume 63,

Number 1, pp. 268-269, 1984.

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2. "Rationalism and the Durkheimians" (a review essay on The Sociological

Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology, edited by

Philippe Besnard) in The Review of Education, Volume 9, Number 2, pp. 193-

196, 1983.

3. Review of Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

by M. Christine Boyer, Society, Volume 21, Number 6, pp. 87-88, 1984.

4. Review of The Interruption of Eternity: Modern Gnosticism and the Origins

of the New Religious Consciousness by Carl A. Raschke, Sociological Analysis,

Volume 45, Number 1, pp. 75-76, 1984.

5. Review of Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of

Cognitive Science by Jerry A. Fodor, American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume

141, Number 11, pp. 1477-1478, 1984.

6. Review essay on Control Over Intoxicant Use: Pharmacological,

Psychological and Social Considerations by Norman Zinberg and Wayne M.

Harding (eds.), The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Volume 12, Number 3, pp.

423-429, 1984.

7. Review of Stolen Lightning: A Social Theory of Magic by Daniel Lawrence

O'Keefe, American Anthropologist, Volume 87, Number 1, pp. 166-167, 1985.

8. Review of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism by Anthony

Giddens, Social Science Journal, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 100-102, 1986.

9. Review of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New

England by John Putnam Demos, in Journal of the American Academy of

Religion, Volume 53, Number 3, pp. 486-488, 1985.

10. Review of Medicine and the Management of Living: Taming the Last Great

Beast by W.R. Arney and B.J. Bergen, Sociology of Health and Illness, Volume

7, Number 3, pp. 448-449, November, 1985.

11. Review of Durkheim and Modern Sociology by Steve Fenton, British Journal

of Sociology, Volume 36, Number 4, pp. 638-639, 1985.

12. Review of Exploring Individual Modernity by Alex Inkeles, The American

Political Science Review, Volume 79, Number 4, pp. 1217-1218, 1985.

13. Review of Psychiatry in India by A. De Sousa and D. De Sousa, The Journal

of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 174, Number 8, pp. 505-506, 1986.

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14. Review of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion: Themes and Theories by

W.S.F. Pickering, International Journal of Comparative Sociology Volume 27,

Number 3-4, pp. 253-255, 1986.

15. Review of Understanding Social Science by Roger Trigg and Thinking About

Social Thinking by Anthony Flew, Sociological Analysis, Volume 48, Number 3,

pp. 183-184, 1987.

16. Review of Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works by

Robert Alun Jones, and Durkheim and Modern Sociology by Steve Fenton,

Sociological Analysis, Volume 49, pp. 312-314, 1988.

17. Review of Mental Health and Criminal Justice by Linda A. Teplin, Deviant

Behavior, 1987, pp. 402-404.

18. Review of Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works by Robert

Alun Jones and Durkheim on Politics and the State edited by Anthony Giddens, in

British Journal of Sociology, Volume 38, Number 3, pp. 440-441, (September)

1987.

19. Review of Community Surveys of Psychiatric Disorders, edited by Myrna M.

Weissman et al., The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Volume 15, Number 3, pp.

475-480, (Fall) 1987.

20. Review of Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor and Theology by Millner

S. Ball, The Social Science Journal, Volume 25, Number 2, pp. 244-245, 1988.

21. Review of Suicide and Depression Among Adolescents and Young Adults

edited by Gerald L. Klerman and Law, Psychiatry, and Morality: Essays and

Analysis by Alan A. Stone, The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Volume 16, pp.

113-118, (Spring) 1988.

22. Review of Anomie: Its History and Meanings by Marco Orru, Social Forces,

Volume 67, pp. 543-544, 1989.

23. Review of L'anomie: ses usages et ses fonctions dans la discipline

sociologique depuis Durkheim by Philippe Besnard, Contemporary Sociology,

Volume 17, Number 6, pp. 836-838, (November) 1988.

24. Review of Invitation to Talcott Parsons' Theory by Pat N. Lackey,

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 58, Number 4 (Fall), pp. 442-444, 1988.

25. Review of Emile Durkheim: Ethics and the Sociology of Morals by Robert T.

Hall, Contemporary Sociology, Volume 18, Number 5, pp. 838-840, 1989.

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26. Review of The Search for a Methodology of Social Science: Durkheim,

Weber, and the Nineteenth Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action, by

Stephen Turner, Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 244-5, 1989.

27. Review of Social Causality by Jerald Hage and Barbara F. Meeker, CHOICE,

December 1988.

28. Review of Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market by John A. Hall,

CHOICE, January 1989.

29. Review of The Woman Question in Classical Sociological Theory by Terry

R. Kandal, CHOICE, April 1989.

30. Review of Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England by Olive Anderson,

Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol 25, No. 3, pp. 288-9, July

1989.

31. Review of Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies, edited by Jeffrey C.

Alexander, Sociological Review, Vol. 37, No. 4 (November), pp. 798-800, 1989.

32. Review of Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns, by Jeanne H.

Guillemin and L.L. Holmstrom, Social Forces, Vol. 68, (March), pp. 964-5, 1990.

33. Review of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the Committee

on Psychiatry and Religion of the American Psychiatric Association, by Marc

Galanter, Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Spring/Summer 1990 (published in

1991), pp. 225-230.

34. Review of A Measure for Measures: A Manifesto For Empirical Sociology,

by Ray Pawson, CHOICE, December, 1989.

35. Reviews of The Development of a Postmodern Self, by M.R. Wood and L.

Zurcher, and Postmodern Social Analysis and Criticism, by J. Murphy, Rural

Sociology, Volume 55, Summer, pp. 288-90, 1991.

36. Review of The Radical Durkheim by F. Pearce, Theory, Culture and Society,

forthcoming.

37. Review of Norbert Elias: Civilization and the Human Self-Image, by Stephen

Mennell, CHOICE, January 1990.

38. Review of Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work, by Dirk

Kasler, CHOICE, September 1989.

39. Review of Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism, by Lawrence

Hazelrigg, CHOICE, September 1989.

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40. Review of Power and Conflict: Toward A General Theory, by H. Blalock,

CHOICE, May 1990.

41. Review of Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of

Social Life by Ira J. Cohen, Social Forces, Volume 69, Number 1, pp. 285-6,

1990.

42. Review of The Radical Durkheim by F. Pearce, CHOICE, February 1990.

43. Review of Postmodern Social Analysis and Criticism by John W. Murphy,

Social Forces, 69(2):649-50, 1991.

44. Review of Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His

Critics by David Held and J. Thompson, CHOICE, July/August 1990.

45. Review of Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by

Bennett M. Berger (ed.), CHOICE, September 1990.

46. Review of The Theory and Scholarship of Talcott Parsons to 1951 by Bruce

C. Wearne, CHOICE, March 1991.

47. Review of The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality

by Paul Atkinson, CHOICE, December 1990.

48. Review of Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance, and Effects,

edited by Michael Hechter, Karl-Dieter Opp, and Rienhard Wippler, CHOICE,

December 1990.

49. Review of Pluralism and Social Conflict: A Social Analysis of the Communist

World, by Silviu Brucan,Rural Sociology, Volume 56, Summer, pp. 311-2, 1991.

50. Review of The Drama of Social Life: Essays in Post-Modern Social

Psychology by T.R. Young, CHOICE, January 1991.

51. Review of The Growth of Sociological Theory: Human Nature, Knowledge,

and Social Change, by David L Westby, CHOICE, May 1991

52. Review of The Social Psychological Study of Widespread Beliefs, ed. by

Colin Fraser and George Gaskell, CHOICE, June 1991.

53. Review of The Sociological Worldview by Sal Restivo, CHOICE, November

1991.

54. Review of The Radical Durkheim by F. Pearce, Critical Sociology, Vol. 18,

no. 1, pp. 134-137, 1991

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55. Review of Experts in the Age of Systems by W.R. Arney, CHOICE,

December 1991

56. Review of Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of

Mass Communication by J.B. Thompson, CHOICE, September 1991.

57. Review of Time, Memory and Society by Franco Ferrarotti, Rural Sociology

Volume 56, Spring, pp. 154-5, Spring 1991.

58. Review of O Religiji i Ateizmu [On Religion and Atheism] by Dragoljub

Dordevic, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 31, No. 1,

p.111, March 1992.

59. Review of Reason and Culture: The Historic Role of Rationality and

Rationalism, by Ernest Gellner. CHOICE November 1992:626.

60. Review of Gramsci's Democratic Theory: Contributions to a Post-liberal

Democracy, by Sue Golding. CHOICE November 1992:627.

61. Review of Habermas's Critical Theory of Society by Jane Braaten, CHOICE

April 1992:694.

62. Review of Post-modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and

Intrusions by Pauline Rosenau, CHOICE September 1992:228.

63. Review of Intimations of Postmodernity by Zygmut Bauman, CHOICE

September 1992:226.

64. Review of Undoing the Social: Towards a Deconstructive Sociology,

CHOICE, May 1992:1474

65. Review of Jurgen Habermas, by Robert Holub, CHOICE, April 1992

66. Review of The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology: Durkheim, Weber, and

Garfinkel by R.A. Hilbert, CHOICE January 1993:882.

67. Review of A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism: Emile Durkheim and

Contemporary Social Theory, by Mark S. Cladis. CHOICE May 1993:673.

68. Review of Sentiments and Acts by Irwin Deutscher et al. CHOICE, Jul/Aug

1993, p. 631.

69. Review of History and Social Theory by Peter Burke, CHOICE, September

1993, p. 738.

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70. Review of The Croat Question: Partisan Politics in the Formation of the

Yugoslav Socialist State, by Jill A. Irvine, CHOICE, October 1993, p. 922.

71. Review of George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist, by Gary

A. Cook, CHOICE, December 1993, p. 623.

72. Review of Civil Society by Keith Tester, Social Science Quarterly

73. Review of Nationalism, Democracy and Security in the Balkans by J.F.

Brown and Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia 1962-1991 by Sabrina P.

Ramet, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 18, Number 1, January 1995, pp. 133-

135.

74. Review of Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway by Akbar ahmed,

The Journal of Psychiatry and Law, Fall 1996, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 443-48.

75. Review of Sociology and the New Systems Theory by Kenneth Bailey,

CHOICE,

76. Review of The Invention of Society: Psychological explanations for social

phenomena by Serge Moscovici, CHOICE, February 1994:600

77. Review of Unsettled Affinities by Reinhard Bendix, CHOICE, March

1994:650

78. Review of Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist by Stephen J. Turner,

Sociological Review, volume 42, Number 3, pp. 576-9, 1994

79. Review of Melancholy and Society by Wolf Lepenies, Social Forces, volume

72 (March), pp. 906-7, 1994.

80. Review of Sources of Social Power, Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and

Nation-states, by Michael Mann. CHOICE October 1994:368.

81. Review of Critical Theory and Methodology by Raymond A. Morrow and

David D. Brown. CHOICE January 1995:879

82. Review of Eastern Europe in Transformation: The Impact on Sociology edited

by Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha. CHOICE January 1995:877.

83. Review of Nationalism, Democracy and Security in the Balkans by J.F.

Brown and Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia 1962-1991 by Sabrina P.

Ramet. Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 18, Number 1, January 1995, pp. 133-

5.

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84. Review of Civil Society by Keith Tester, Social Science Quarterly, volume

76, number 1, (March) 1995, pp. 241-2.

85. Review of The Life and Times of Post-Modernity by Keith Tester, Social

Forces, Volume 73, number 3, (March) 1995, pp. 1122-3

86. Review of The Poverty of Postmodernism by John O'Neill, CHOICE, June

1995

87. Review of A Theory About Control by Jack P. Gibbs, CHOICE July/August

1995

88. Review of Visions of the Sociological Tradition by Donal N. Levine,

CHOICE February 1996, Volume 33, No. 6, p. 535.

89. Review of Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a

Central Bosnian Village by Tone Bringa, CHOICE June 1996, Volume 33, No.

10, p. 791.

90. Review of The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media by John

B. Thompson, CHOICE September 1996, Volume 34, No. 1., p. 106.

91. Review of The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia by Michael

Sells, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 32, Number 2, July

1997, pp. 339-40.

92. Review of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society by Krishnan Kumar,

CHOICE, Volume 33, 1996, p. 497.

93. Review of After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Politics in the

Commonwealth of Independent States by Anatoly Khazanov, Society, vol. 35, no.

3, p. 95, 1998

94. Review of Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity: A Critique of Liberal Reason,

by David Owen, American Journal of Sociology, Volume 102, Number 4, January

1997, pp. 123-4.

95. Review of Contingency Theory: Rethinking the Boundaries of Social Thought

by Gary Itzkowitz, CHOICE, Volume 34, Number 7, March 1997, p. 844

96. Review of The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia by Michael

A. Sells, CHOICE, Volume 34, Number 7, March 1997, p. 854.

97. Review of Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community by

Paul James, CHOICE, Volume 35, number 1, September 1997, p. 553.

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98. Review of Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity: reconciling competing

identities by T.K. Oommen, CHOICE, Volume 35, Number 1, September 1997, p.

556.

99. Review of Croatia: a nation forged in war by Marcus Tanner, CHOICE,

volume 35, number 2, October 1997, p. 1062

100. Review of Eco-impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for

Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology by Tom Jagtenberg,

CHOICE, volume 34, number 10, June 1997, p. 990.

101. Review of Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination by Dona Kolar-Panov,

Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 16, Number 3, June 1999

102. Review of History Without a Subject: The Postmodern Condition by David

Ashley

103. Review of After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the

Commonwealth of Independent States by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Society, Volume

35, Number 3, (March/April 1998), pp. 95-6.

104. Review of The Future of Anomie Theory edited by Nikos Passas and Robert

Agnew, CHOICE, Volume 35, Number 8, April 1998, p. 818.

105. Review of Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World: A Study in

Republicanism and Caesarism by Peter Baehr, CHOICE, Volume 35, Number 10,

June 1998, p. 792.

106. Review of Identity Crises: A Social Critique of Postmodernity by Robert G.

Dunn, CHOICE, Volume 36, Number 1, September 1998, p. 642.

107. Review of Postmodernism and Its Critics, [web site] CHOICE, Volume 36,

Number 1, September 1998, p. 649.

108. Review of Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia

by Chuck Sudetic, CHOICE, Volume 36, Number 3, November 1998, p. 1741.

109. Review of "The Durkheim Pages" [Internet site], CHOICE, Volume 36,

Number 4, December 1998, p. 2453.

110. Review of Postmodern War:The New Politics of Conflict by Chris Gray

Society Volume 36, Number 2, January/February 1999, pp. 86-88.

111. Review of The Meaning of Culture: Moving Beyond the Postmodern

Critique, by Kenneth Allan, CHOICE, Volume 36, Number 5, p. 52.

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112. Review of Three Faces of God: Society, Religion, and the Categories of

Totality in the Philosophy of Emile Durkheim, CHOICE, Volume 36, Number 7,

March 1999, p. 208.

113. Review of Fires of Hatred in Patterns of Prejudice March 2003, vol 37, p.

113

114. Review of Globalization and Culture in Contemporary Sociology Nov 2001

vole 30 no 6, p. 598-9

115. Review of Protest in Belgrade by Mladen Lazic in Slavic Review 2001, vol

60, number 1, pp. 170-72

116. Review of Limits of Privacy by Amtiai Etzioni in Contemporary Sociology,

Jan 2001, Vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 67-8 1999.

117. Review of Veblen in Perspective in British Journal of Sociology 2204, vol

55, no. 1, pp. 147-8

118. Review of The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and

International Intervention in Holocaust and Genocide Studies vol 16, no 2, pp.

324-26, 2002

119. Review of Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism

by Rick Tilman, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 176-77, 2008

120. Review of Postmodernism and Social Theory by Steven Seidman and David

Wagner, Social Forces, 73(2), pp. 771-3, 1994.

121. Review of Rebirth of Politics in Russia by Michael Urban, Social Forces,

77(2), p. 811, 1998

122. Review of Civil Wars From LA to Bosnia by Hans Magnus Enzenberger,

Contemporary Sociology, 24(6), pp. 768-9, 1995

123. Review of The Suitcase: Refugee Voices From Bosnia and Croatia by Julie

Mertus, Canadian-American Slavic Studies 33(2), p. 499, 1999

124. Review of The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and

Genocide in the 21st Century by Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann,

Contemporary Sociology, 28(5), pp. 60506, 1999

125. Review of The Nature of Peace by Thorstein Veblen, Journal of the History

of the Behavioral Sciences 35(2), pp. 193-94, 1999

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS

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1. "The Relationship of Suicide Factors to Psychiatric Hospital Admission for

Voluntary Versus Committed Clients" presented at the medical sociology session

of the 1982 annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Memphis,

Tennessee.

2. "Durkheim's Criticisms of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Saint-Simon in the

Context of the Dualism of Human Nature" presented at the special session on the

role of history in Durkheim's methodology at the 1982 annual meetings of the

Southern Sociological Society, Memphis, Tennessee.

3. "Durkheim's Concept of the Unconscious" presented at the history and theory

session at the 1982 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association,

San Francisco, California.

4. "Patient Suicide and Loss of Access to Treatment" presented at the session on

the development of social pathology at the 1982 annual meetings of the American

Sociological Association, San Francisco, California.

5. "The New Commitment Laws and Societal Reaction: An Empirical Study of

Involuntary Admissions in South Carolina by Diagnosis, Race, and Sex"

presented at the medical sociology session at the annual meetings of the

Association for Humanist Sociology, 1982, Washington, D.C.

6 . "World Hunger and Equalization of Wealth: A Conceptual Link Tested Using

NORC Survey Items" presented at the annual meetings of the Association for

Humanist Sociology, 1982, Washington, D.C.

7. "The Outcome of Psychiatric Commitment Hearings in South Carolina by

Race, Age, and Sex in 1981" presented at the 1982 annual meetings of the Mid-

South Sociological Association, Jackson, Mississippi.

8. "A Durkheimian Hypothesis on Stress" (co-authored with Barry Glassner)

presented in the sociology of health session at the 1983 annual meetings of the

Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia.

9. "Need for Treatment and New York's Revised Commitment Laws: An

Empirical Assessment" presented at the sociology of mental health session at the

1983 annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia.

10. "An Analysis of Durkheim's remarks in 'The Unknown and the Unconscious

in History'" presented at the session on current cross-fertilization of American and

European social theory at the annual meetings of the American Sociological

Association, 1983, Detroit, Michigan.

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11. "A Durkheimian Perspective on Stress and Social Integration" (co-authored

with Barry Glassner) presented in the life events and stress session of the 1983

annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, Michigan.

12. "Dangerousness, Mental Illness, Need for Treatment, Due Process, and the

Illusion of Legal Reform in the New Commitment Statutes: An Analysis of the

Revised Criteria in the Fifty States" (co-authored with John A. Cook), presented

in the session on dangerousness and the commitment of the mentally ill at the

1983 annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit,

Michigan.

13. "Overturning Psychiatric Commitments at a New York State Hospital:

Implications for the Societal Reaction Model" presented in the session on

critiques of sociological constructions of psychiatric problems at the 1983 annual

meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, Michigan.

14. "Despair as a Disease of the Infinite in the Thought of Kierkegaard and

Durkheim" presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1983,

Knoxville, Tennessee.

15. "Labeling Theory and the Sociology of Literature: The Case of Melville's

'Bartleby'" presented in the session on symbolic interactionism at the 1983 annual

meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Birmingham, Alabama, (co-

authored with David Hurry).

16. "Social Control in South Carolina Emergency Commitments in 1981"

presented in the sociology mental health session at the 1983 annual meetings of

the Mid-South Sociological Association, Birmingham, Alabama.

17. "The Idea that 'Collective Life is Only Made of Representations' - Durkheim's

Legacy Re-examined" presented in the session on the philosophical foundations

of sociological theory at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological

Society, 1984, Knoxville, Tennessee.

18. "Nationhood and Nationalism in Durkheim's Thought" presented in the

session on classical theory and contemporary uses at the annual meetings of the

Southern Sociological Society, 1984, Knoxville, Tennessee.

19. "Anomia and the Infinity of Desires Among Harvard Professors: A

Qualitative Study" presented at the 27th World Congress of the International

Institute of Sociology, 1984, Seattle, Washington.

20. "The Role of Diagnosis in Societal Reaction in the Context of the New

Commitment Laws" presented in the psychiatric sociology session at the annual

meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1984, San Antonio,

Texas.

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21. "Ambiguity and Social Control in Substance Abuse" presented to the Society

for the Study of Social problems, 1984, San Antonio, Texas.

22. "On Croatia as a Submerged Nation from a Sociological Perspective"

presented to the American Sociological Association, San Antonio, Texas, 1984.

23. "The NORC Suicide Variable as a Social Fact: An Exploration" presented in

the theory session at the annual meetings of the Mid-South Sociological

Association, Monroe, Louisiana, 1984.

24. "Moral Treatment in South Carolina psychiatric Hospitals: A Historical

Study" (co-authored with John Cook), presented in the sociology of mental health

session at the annual meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association,

Monroe, Louisiana, 1984.

25. "Simmel's Concept of the Unconscious" presented in the theory session at the

annual meetings of the Western Social Science Association, 1984, San Diego,

California.

26. "Durkheim's Renovated Rationalism" presented in the theory session at the

annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, North Carolina,

1985.

27. "A Sociological Conceptualization of Trauma" presented in the medical

sociology session at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society,

Charlotte, North Carolina, 1985.

28. "Durkheim's Concept of Anomie as Dereglement" presented to the Society

for the Scientific Study of Religion, Savannah, Georgia, 1985.

29. "Magic and Psychiatric Hospitalization in India" presented to the Southern

Sociological Society, April 10, 1986, New Orleans, Louisiana.

30. "The Dangerousness Standard and Involuntary Civil Commitment: Social

Implications Relating to Conceptual Confusion" presented to the Mid-South

Sociological Association, October 22-25, 1986, Jackson, Mississippi.

31. "Indian Suicides and Indian Family Structure: The Costs of Too Much

Integration" presented to the Mid-South Sociological Association, October 22-25,

1986, Jackson, Mississippi.

32. "From Durkheim to Habermas: The Role of Language in Moral Theory"

presented in t he theory session to the American Sociological Association, August

20, 1987, Chicago, Illinois.

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33. "Durkheim's Concept of Political Anomie in the Context of Schopenhauer's

Philosophy" presented to the Mid-South Sociological Association, October 28,

1987, Memphis Tennessee.

34. "Magic and Psychiatric Commitments in India: A Sociological Analysis"

presented to the Mid-South Sociological Association, October 29, 1987,

Memphis, Tennessee.

35. "The Social World as Will and Idea: Schopenhauer's Influence Upon

Durkheim's Thought," presented to the Southern Sociological Society, March

1988, Nashville, Tennessee.

36. "Durkheim, Schopenhauer, and the Relationship Between Goals and Means:

Reversing the Assumptions in the Parsonian Theory of Action," presented to the

American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 1988.

37. "The Paradox of Individualism: Durkheim and Kohlberg on Promoting

Postconventional Mortality in the Context of the Fin de Siecle Rebellion Against

the Enlightenment," (co-authored with Anthony J. Cortese), presented at the

Morals and Social Theory session to the American Sociological Association,

Atlanta, 1988.

38. "The Noumenon or Other Side of Sociology's Origins and Current

Epistemological Crises," presented at the 29th International Congress of the

International Institute of Sociology, June 12-16, 1989, Rome, Italy.

39. "The Stock Market Crash of 1987 and Durkheim's Concept of Economic

Anomie," (co-authored with Geoffrey P. Alpert), presented at the 83rd Annual

Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 13, 1989, San

Francisco.

40. "Anomie and Indian Women," presented to the mid-South Sociological

Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 19, 1989.

41. "Durkheim's Stand on Modernity," presented to the Mid-South Sociological

Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 20, 1989.

42. "An Application of Durkheim's Thought to the Apparitions at Medjugorje,"

presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of

Religion, October 29, 1989, Salt Lake City, Utah.

43. "The Primacy of Durkheim's Conceptualization of Economic Anomie, and Its

Neglect," presented to the International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain,

July 10,1990.

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44. "Durkheim's Stand on Fin de Siecle Culture," presented to the International

Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain, July 13, 1990.

45. "The Misunderstood Durkheimian Legacy: From the Sacred Collectivity to

the Sacred Individual," presented to the International Sociological Association,

Madrid, Spain, July 9, 1990.

46. "Durkheim's Sociology of Morals," presented to the Southern Sociological

Society, Louisville, KY, March 22, 1990.

47. "Durkheim and Postmodernism," presented to the Mid-South Sociological

Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 26, 1990.

48. "Eastern European Habits of the Heart and the Possibility of Democracy"

presented to the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1991.

49. "Durkheim and Postmodern Culture," presented in the section on

postmodernism at the American Sociological Association meetings, Cincinnati,

Ohio, August 1991.

50. "Democracy in Eastern Europe, and Social Character" (co-authored with S.

Letica), presented in the Political Sociology section at the American Sociological

Association meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1991.

51. "Author Meets Critics: Distinguished Article in the Scientific Study of

Religion," at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of

Religion, Pittsburgh, PA, November 8, 1991.

52. "Postmodernism, Crime, and Anomie: De-constructing Merton and Re-

constructing Durkheim," presented at a panel on Jack Katz's Seductions of Crime

at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco, California,

November 21, 1991.

53. "The Road From Paradise: Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the End of

Sociology," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological

Association, August 1992

54. "The Fifth Yugoslavia and the New World Order," presented at the annual

meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 1992 [co-authored

with Slaven Letica]

55. "Psychiatric and Legal Aspects of the Current War in Former Yugoslavia,"

presented at the International Congress of Law and Psychiatry, Vancouver,

Canada [co-authored with Slaven Letica and Miroslav Goreta] June 1992

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56. "Legal, Psychiatric and Sociological Dimensions of Reconstruction

Following the Yugoslav War of 1991-1993" presented at the International

Congress of Law and Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1993 [co-authored with

Miroslav Goreta]

57. "1993 in the Balkans," presented at the annual meetings of the American

Sociological Association, Miami, Florida, August 1993 [co-authored with Slaven

Letica]

58. "The Quest for Greater Serbia and Its Consequences" presented at the annual

meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami, Florida, August 1993

[co-authored with Slaven Letica]

59. "What the West Must Do to Win the Peace and Promote Democracy in the

Former Yugoslavia," presented to the European Movement conference, Goritza,

Italy, September 24, 1993

60. "Postemotional Politics in the Balkans," presented at the XXth International

Congress of Law and Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada, on June 18, 1994

61. "Political Xenophobia in the Balkans" presented at the annual meetings of the

American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 6, 1994

62. "Political Participation as Balkanization" (co-presented with Slaven Letica)

presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los

Angeles, California, August 7, 1994

63. "The Balkan War: Genocide on the Information Highway," presented in the

session on "Theory and Terror" at the American Sociological Association Theory

Mini-Conference, University of San Diego, 11 August 1994

64. "Retrieving Durkheim's Jewish Heritage in Relation to His Sociology,"

presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

in the session, Durkheim, Religion and Social Justice, November 5, 1994,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

65. "The Fin de Siecle and the Current Balkan War," presented at the international

conference on Weighing Up the End of the Century, December 16, 1994, Zagreb,

Croatia.

66. "Genocide After Emotion: The Post-Emotional Balkan War" presented at the

year-long series, "Genocide: The Horror and Beyond" at California State

University, Chico, California, March 20, 1995

67. "Labeling Theory and the Wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina" [co-

authored with Slaven Letica] presented at a session entitled on "The Balkans:

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Conflict of Coexistence or Coexistence of Conflicts" at the International

Conference on "The Balkans: 50 Years After," in Sofia, Bulgaria on 30 March,

1995

68. "The Postemotional Balkan War," presented to the Sociology Department at

McGill University and at a political conference in Montreal, Canada on May 2,

1995

69. "From Postmodernism to Postemotionalism: Perspectives on Post-Communist

Transformations in Russia and Yugoslavia," presented at the session on Post-

Communist Social Transformation at the American Sociological Association

meetings, Washington D.C., August 21, 1995

70. "The Moral Toll of the Balkan War," presented at the conference on Poland

and East-Central Europe, 1945-1995, St. Mary's College, Orchard City, Michigan,

October 6, 1995

71. "Postemotional Society," presented at the University of Amsterdam, the

Netherlands, October 18, 1995

72. "The Role of Sentiments in Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious

Life," presented at the University of Nijmigen, the Netherlands, October 19, 1995

73. "The Postemotional Balkan War," presented at the University of Nijmigen,

the Netherlands, October 20, 1995

74. "The Balkanization of the West and Postemotionalism," presented at the

University of Nijmigen, the Netherlands, October 21, 1995

72. "This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia," presented

at New Hampshire State College, Keene, New Hampshire, November 8, 1995

73. "The Moral Costs of the Balkan War," presented to the American Sociological

Association, New York, New York, 17 August 1996

74. "The War in Bosnia," presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Balkan

Institute, Washington DC, 3 February 1996

75. "Postemotional Politics," presented at the Couch-Stone Symposium,

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 11 April 1997

76. Host on a radio talk show concerning "conspiracies," the David Gold show,

Dallas AM KLIF 570, on 16 July 1997.

77. "Durkheim and the End of Collective Effervescence," presented to the

Association for the Sociology of Religion, Toronto, Canada, August 9, 1997

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78. "Civil War or Aggression: Is the Choice of Terminology Important?"

presented at the conference on the war in Croatia as reflected in the media, May 1,

1998, Toronto, Canada.

79 “From Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib” (with Ryan Caldwell) presented to the

American Sociological Association 2005

80. “The Role of Gender in Abuse at Abu Ghraib” (with Ryan Caldwell)

presented to the American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2006

81. “Torture, What is it Good for? Absolutely Nothing! An Analysis of the

Response to Abuse at Abu Ghraib,” (with Ryan Caldwell) presented to the

American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2006

82. “War Crimes and Abu Ghraib” Session Organizer at the American

Sociological Association meetings, New York City, 2007

83. “Reality and Gender Simulacra at Abu Ghraib and Associated Courts-

Martial,” (with Ryan Caldwell) paper presented to the American Sociological

Association meetings, New York City, 2007

84. “It was NOT the Lucifer Effect: Zimbardo, Women, and Abu Ghraib,” with

Ryan Caldwell, presented to the American Sociological Association meetings,

2008

85. “Anomie and the War on Terror: The Durkheimian Tradition Used to

Interrogate Sites of Abuse” [co-authored with Ryan Caldwell] paper presented to

the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2010

86. “Representation and Atrocity” presented at the London School of Economics,

16 February 2011

87. Interview in Social Trends Institute newsletter concerning my book, The

Postemotional Bully 6 July 2015

http://www.socialtrendsinstitute.org/news/v/en/news/n1366/exploring-

a-cultural-tendency-to-rationalize-barbarism

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, PAPERS, AND MEDIA

CONTRIBUTIONS

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1. "Legal Status and Inpatient Admission at a Psychiatric Hospital in New York

State" presented at the 29th annual meeting of the New York State Sociological

Association, Oswego, New York, October 7, 1981.

2. Moderator and discussant for the session on minority groups and psychiatric

illness at the 1982 annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social

Problems, San Francisco, California.

3. "A Durkheimian Concept of Nationhood" presented at the Max Weber

Colloquia and Symposia at the 1983 annual meetings of the American Political

Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.

4. Chair of a session entitled "Max Weber's Intellectual and Scientific Legacy for

the 1980's" at the Max Weber Colloquia and Symposia at the 1983 annual

meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.

5. Chair of a session entitled "Empirical Approaches to the Psychology of

Religion" at the 1983 annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of

Religion, Knoxville, Tennessee.

6. "The Dangerousness Standard in the New Commitment Laws: What is it and

How is it Used?" presented agt the 10th International Congress on Law and

Psychiatry, Banff, Alberta, Canada, on June 15, 1984.

7. "Definitions of Dangerousness in the New Commitment Laws" presented at

the 11th International Congress on Law and Psychiatry, Florence, Italy, March,

1985.

8. Acted as discussant for the session entitled "Current Sociological Issues of the

Third World" at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society,

March 28, 1986, Des Moines, Iowa.

9. "The Interaction of Law, Psychiatry and Religious Healing in India" presented

at the 12th International Congress of Law and Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada, June

19, 1986.

10. Discussant in the session on "Language and Society" at the annual meetings

of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Jackson, Mississippi, October 23,

1986.

11. Discussant in the session on "Women in the Developing World" at the annual

meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

October 20, 1989.

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12. Presider and Discussant at the Sociology of Religion session at the annual

meetings of the Southern Sociological Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April

1990.

13. "Postmodernism and the Fall of Communism in the Coming Fin de Siecle,"

presented as the Texas A&M University annual Humanities Lecture, April 19,

1990.

14. "Social Character and Structure in Eastern Europe After the Fall of

Communism," presented at a Symposium on "Glasnost" at Texas A&M

University, October 5, 1990.

15. Participant in the Karl Brunner Symposium, Hotel Metropole, Interlaken,

Switzerland, May 20-24, 1991.

16. Interviewed during the Gorbachev coup in August 1991 by various news

agencies, including: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fort Worth Observer,

Houston AM radio 740, Channel 3 evening news, Dallas AM radio KRLD, and

the Texas State News Service.

17. Following my Fulbright research in 1992, I was interviewed in 1993 by Kevin

Geiger on NBC radio on February 10, 1993; on WKGB in Keene, New

Hampshire, on February 26, 1993;

18. I was interviewed on WOAI Radio, San Antionio, KRLD, Dallas and on

KBTX, Channel 3, College Station, on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in late

April and early May 1993

19. "The War in the Balkans and its Effects on the European Community,"

presented at the Texas A&M University Symposium on the European Community

and Global Change, April 12, 1993

20. "The World's Collective Conscience and the Atrocities in the War in Former

Yugoslavia," presented at the conference on military intervention in former

Yugoslavia, presented at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April

14, 1993.

21. "The Postmodern West as Voyeur: Monitoring Human Rights in the Balkans,"

[co-authored with Slaven Letica], presented at the United Nations Conference on

Human Rights, Vienna, Austria, June 12, 1993.

22. Interviewed concerning matters on the Balkan War on Croatian Television on

May 17, 1993; the Croatian newspaper Novi List (May 26, 1993); KZEN Radio,

Ventura, California on May 7, 1993; KOA Clear-channel Radio, Denver,

Colorado, May 9, 1993; KRLD Dallas on 13 September 1993;

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23. Briefed new CIES (Fulbright) recipients on Croatia at an orientation meeting

in Washington, DC Jul 21-22, 1993.

24. Co-chair of a session on Nationalism and the Balkans held at the presented at

the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami, Florida,

August 1993

25. Spoke on the current Balkan War to the First United Methodist Church,

Bryan, Texas on 5 September 1993

26. Spoke on the Jewish response to the current Balkan War to the Hillel

Foundation, College Station, Texas, on 10 September 1993

27. Appointed chair of a session on the Balkans for the forthcoming International

Congress of Law and Psychiatry in Montreal, Canada, June 1994

28. Interviewed by Globus under the headline, "Croatia Must Renew Its Alliance

with the Bosnian Muslims," 1 October 1993

29. Presented a paper entitled "A Sociological and Postmodern Appraisal of

Current and Past Genocide in ex-Yugoslavia," at the International Conference on

Responses to Genocide and Holocausts from a Theological, Historical,

Philosophical, Psychological and Literary Perspective, December 30, 1993,

Jerusalem, Israel.

30. Participated in a one-hour radio talk show on WBVP, Beaver Falls, Penn.,

AM 1230 on 3 February 1994 concerning the war in the Balkans.

31. Spoke on US military intervention in Bosnia to chapter 378 of the National

Sojourners, College Station, Texas, 3 February 1994.

32. Interviewed by Bob McCormick on March 2, 1994 on KRLD Radio, Dallas

Texas, concerning the signing of the recent accord between Croats and Bosnian

Muslims.

33. Interviewed by the Voice of America on 11 March 1994 concerning my book,

Habits of the Balkan Heart

34. Interviewed on 20 April 1994 on KRLD Radio, Dallas, Texas, on the Balkan

War.

35. Spoke on "Croatia and the Balkanization of the West" at the Houston World

Affairs Council, 20 April 1994, St. Thomas University, Houston, Texas

36. Interviewed by Ben Baldwin on a radio talk show by KFON Austin, Texas on

6 May 1994.

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37. Interviewed by Peter Stolting on his radio talk show, KUTX College Station,

Texas on 7 June 1994

38. Interviewed on the "Talk of the Nation" program on National Public Radio on

22 June 1994

39. Interviewed by Davis Rankin on KURV Radio on the Balkans on 16 August

1994

40. Interviewed by Pamela Taylor for the Voice of America on Poland's

Restructuring of Debt on 15 September 1994.

41. Interviewed on KAMU Radio's "Focus" Program on my book, The Coming

Fin de Siecle. November 1994

42. Presented a paper, "The Continued Relevance of David Riesman's The Lonely

Crowd" at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1994

43. Interviewed in the Croatian newspaper, "Novi List," under the title, "Why the

World Doesn't Like Croatia," 18 October 1994 pages 6 and 7

44. Interviewed in "Matica Croatia" January 1, 1995, under the title "Croatia Must

Find Itself" pp. 6-8.

45. "The Coming Fin De Siecle and the Current Balkan War," presented at the

conference on the End of the Millennium, Zagreb, Croatia, December 16, 1994

46. "The Role of Intellectuals in the Current Balkan War," presented at the

conference on the Role of Intellectuals, Zagreb, Croatia, November 25, 1994

47. Spoke on the end of the century for Minnesota Public Radio, 9 March 1995

48. Spoke on developments in the current Balkan War in May of 1995 on KRLD

Radio in College Station, Texas; and on AM 610 Duluth Minnesota; and on a

radio station in San Antonio, Texas

49. Interviewed on the ABC Radio News Network on the fall of Srebrenica,

Bosnia, to the Serbs on 11 July 1995

50. Spoke on talk radio about the current situation in Bosnia with Davis Rankin at

KURV Radio, AM 710, the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, on 23 August 1995

51. Interviewed by CNN's Kathy Nellis of "Futures Watch" on my book, The

Coming Fin de Siecle on September 6, 1995

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52. Interviewed by Pamela Taylor on the "Voice of America" concerning the US-

brokered peace plan in the former Yugoslavia on 3 October 1995

53. Interviews concerning the current Balkan War published in October of 1995

in the Croatian Obzir, Novi List, and Zadarski List.

54. Broadcast on CNN Headline News, CNN's "Future Watch," and CNN

International on January 12, 13, 15, and 21st, 1996, concerning my book, The

Coming Fin de Siecle . The topics covered ranged from the war in Bosnia, to

President Clinton's Presidency to the Unabomber.

55. Moderated a session at the 3rd annual meeting of the American Committee to

Save Bosnia, entitled, "The Military Situation in Bosnia: Implementation and

Beyond," 3 February 1996, Washington DC

56. Presented in a panel on Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing at a symposium at

Wellesley College entitled "Conflict and Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia," 5

March 1996, Wellesley, Massachusetts

57. Interviewed by Allison Smith on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation

television program, "The Lead," concerning opposition protests in Belgrade, 15

January 1997

58. Presented "The Presence and Absence of the Sacred in our Postemotional

Age: A Neo-Durkheimian Analysis of the Spiritual Life," public lecture at Boston

College, 21 January 1997

59. Presented, "Religion, Solidarity, and Identity in Post Modern Culture: The

Elementary Forms of Neo-Durkheimian Theory," to the sociology faculty at

Boston College, 21 January 1997

60. Introduced Jean Baudrillard and his lecture on the "Perfect Crime" at Texas

A&M University, November 13, 1996

61. Interviewed about the mass suicide in California in April of 1997 by ABC

News, Dallas Morning News, Reuters, and Doug Barstow of KAMU Radio

62. Participated in a panel sponsored by the Houston Chapter of the United

Nations Association and the League of Women Voters, "What Can We Learn

From the Tragedies of Bosnia About Resolution of Ethnic Divisions?" Held at the

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, 24 March, 1997

63. Interviewed on the Voice of America concerning the result of municipal

elections in Croatia, on 15 April 1997

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64. Cited in op-ed, "Millennium is bringing with it an astonishing set of

predictions, fears and just plain nonsense," by Bill Tammeus, The Kansas City

Star, 2 Sept 97

65. Interviewed on the Voice of America concerning the impact of Samuel

Huntington's book, The Clash of Civilizations, on understanding the war in

Bosnia, October 28, 1997

66. Interviewed on the Internet newspaper, "Houston News Today," concerning

President Clinton and scandals, on 1 February 1998 in an article entitled "Why

Whitewater isn't negatively affecting Clinton's popularity" by Caroline Shearer

67. Served as moderator for a panel discussion, "Bosnia: Should the US Be

Involved?" sponsored by TAMU's Political Forum, 3 February 1998. The

speakers were Muhammed Sacirbey, Bosnian Ambassador to the UN; Gen.

William Nash; and Mr. Stuart Saldowitz of the State Department

68. Wrote opinion piece carried by Scripps News Service, "Passion for American

Way Retreats Before Self-Interest," Plano Star Courier 8 February 1998:6a

69. Presented "Civil War or Aggression: Is the Choice of Terminology Important"

at the University of Toronto conference entitled "The War in Croatia as Reflected

in the Media," Toronto, Canada, May 2, 1998.

70. Reviewed proposal on the Yugoslav war for the National Science Foundation,

May 1998

71. Filmed by Fuji Television on “Zimbardo and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib” for

aired in Japan in June 2006

72. Consultant for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for documentary “A Few

Bad Apples?” on Abu Ghraib aired November 2005

73. Interview on the Operation Iron Triangle killings on the Rick Amato radio

show in 2007

74. “Abuse at Abu Ghraib,” presentation of the annual Fallon Lecture at Texas

A&M University, 2007

75. Interviewed by Rick Amato on the “Rick Amato Show” concerning Corey

Clagett and the Operation Iron Triangle case, November 3, 2009

76. Interviewed by Rick Amato on WS Radio (Washington Times) concerning the

Operation Iron Triangle case, November 10, 2009

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77. Interviewed on WBAI radio, “On the Count” program, concerning the

Operation Iron Triangle case, Abu Ghraib cases, and the arrest of defense attorney

Paul Bergrin, November 14, 2009

78. Interviewed by Abbie Boudreau for the CNN documentary, “Killings at the

Canal: The Army Tapes,” produced by Scott Zamost, which aired on CNN the

week of November 16, 2009 and CNN International the week of November 23,

2009. The documentary exposes issues pertaining to the convictions of Michael

Leahy, Joseph Mayo, and John Hatley

79. Interviewed by Stephen Lendman on the Progressive Radio Network on

December 17, 2009 on Paul Bergrin’s arrest, the Operation Iron Triangle killings

and abuse at Abu Ghraib. Also cited in Mr. Lendman’s Internet article, “Targeting

Lawyers—The Case of Paul Bergrin” the week of December 16, 2009

80. Presented a paper on the military leadership at Abu Ghraib as a “failed state”

at a joint conference of Texas A&M University and the European Center in

Germany, October, 2010

81. Presented at a conference “The Dissolution of Yugoslavia” in Sarajevo,

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 4 December 2010

82. Interviewed by Stephen Lendman on the Progressive Radio Network on

February 6, 2011 on war crimes courts-martial

83. Interviewed by Dahr Jamail for truthout.org on three of my books pertaining

to war crimes, The Trials of Abu Ghraib, The Good Soldier on Trial, and Rules of

Engagement,2010: http://archive.truthout.org/the-us-military-a-mindset-

barbarism56706

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Serving as Series Editor on Classical and Contemporary Social Theory for

Ashgate Publishing from 2011 to the present. Books published in my series are:

1. Fallgirls, by Ryan Ashley Caldwell, 2012

2. Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and

Keith Tester, 2012

3. The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, by Kieran Kechane

and Anders Petersen, 2013

4. The Puritan Culture of America’s Military, by Ronald Lorenzo, 2014

5. The Gift and its Paradoxes, by O. Pyythinnen, 2015

6. Fiction and Social Reality by Mariano Longo, 2015

7. The Making of a Postsecular society: A Durkheimian Approach to

Memories, Pluralism, and Religion in Turkey, 2015 by M. Rossi

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8. C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination, edited by Jon

Frauley, 2015

9. Torture, Intelligence, and Surveillance in the War on Terror, 2014

10. A Sociology of the Total Organization: Atomistic Unity in the French

Foreign Legion by M. Sundberg, 2015

11. David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy, by Keith

Kerr, M Aldredge, and G Harden, 2015

12. Being Human in a Consumer Society, edited by A Martinez, 2015

13. Max Weber’s Theory of Modernity: The Endless Pursuit of Meaning by M.

Symonds, 2015

14. Arendt Contra Sociology by P Walsh, 2015

15. Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History 2015

16. Hegel’s Phenomenology and Foucault’s Geneology by M Sembou, 2015

Serving as Series Editor on Postmodern Social Futures for Rowman & Littlefield

Publishers from 1994 to the present. Books published in my series are:

1. Ways of Escape: Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel by Chris

Rojek, 1994

2. Feeling and Form in Social Life by Lloyd E. Sanderlands, 1997

3. Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and Its Historical Forms by

Alex Debeljak, 1998

4. Civilization and the Human Subject by John Mandalios, 1999

5. Sociology After Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice by Keith D.

Doubt, 2000

6. New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Culture, and Commodification

by Mark Gottdiener, 2000

7. The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society

by Natan Sznaider, 2000

8. Signs, Solidarities and Sociology: Charles S. Pierce and the Pragmatics of

Globalization by Blasco Jose Sobrinho, 2001

Served on the Texas A&M University Press faculty editorial board, 1995 to 2006

Served as Series Editor on Eastern Europe for Texas A&M University from 1991

to 2006. Books published while I was editor are:

1. American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939-1941, by Ivo Tasovac

2. Budapest Exit by Csaba Teglas

3. Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered by Luisa Lang Owen

4. Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer by Zlatko

Anguelev

5. Democracy at Dawn by Frederick Quinn

6. Democratic Transition in Croatia by Sabrina Ramet

7. Democratic Transition in Slovenia by Sabrina Ramet

8. The Drama of Russian Political History by Alexander Obolonsky

9. The First Domino by Johanna Granville

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10. Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing by Norman Cigar

11. Gorbachev’s Glasnost by Joseph Gibbs

12. Hitler’s Death Squads: The Logic of Mass Murder by Helmut Langebain

13. The New Georgia by Ravez Gachechelaze

14. The New Elite in Post-Communist Eastern Europe by Vladimir

Shlapentokh

15. Imagining Postcommunism by Beverly James

16. Justice in a Time of War: The True Story Behind the International

Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by Pierre Hazan

17. Keeping the Faith by Jennifer Wynot

18. The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State by

Michael Melancon

19. The Liberal Project and the Transformation of Democracy by Sabrina

Ramet

20. A Muslim Woman in Tito’s Yugoslavia by Munivara Hadzisehovic

21. The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia by Charles Shrader

22. The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia by Wallace Daniel

23. The Other Side of Russia by Sharon Hudgings

24. The Political Analysis of Postcommunism: Understanding Postcommunist

Ukraine by Volodymyr Polokhalo

25. Political Culture and National Identity in Russian-Ukrainian Relations by

Mikhail Mulchanov

26. Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina by

Mitja Velikonija

27. Return to Ukraine by Ania Savage

28. Serbia’s Secret War by Philip J. Cohen

29. Social Service Reform in a Postcommunist State:Decentralization in

Poland by Janelle Kerlin

30. The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans Under Communism by H. David

Baer

31. A Testament of Revolution by Bela Liptak

32. Testimony of a Bosnian by Naza Tanovic-Miller

33. Uncertain Path: Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Slovenia by

Rudolf Rizman

34. Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic’s Serbia by Takis Michas

35. The War in Chechnya by Stasys Knezys

Served as peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 1997

Served as peer reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992 to

1993

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWING OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

Served on the Board of Advisory Editors for Sociological Inquiry, from 1986 to

1993

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Reviewed articles for American Journal of Sociology, Culture Theory and

Society, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Theory,

Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Spectrum, Sociological Analysis, Sociological

Theory, Social Science and Medicine, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly,

Symbolic Interaction, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion,

Sociological Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Sociology

Reviewed book length manuscripts for Routledge, Chapman & Hall; Rowman &

Littlefield; Aldine de Gruyter; The Greenwood Press; University Press of

Kentucky; Sage; Oxford University Press, State University of New York Press,

New York University Press, Paradigm Publishers, Ashgate Publishing

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Sociological Association

The Schopenhauer Society

International Thorsten Veblen Association

PERSONAL AND CONTACT DATA

Citizenship: United States

Work Address: Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College

Station, TX 77843-4351

Office Phone: Department of Sociology 979-845-5133

E-mail address: mestrovic@tamu.edu