Michael D. Kennedy is professor of international and public affairs at the Watson Institute and professor in Brown's Department of Sociology. Professor Kennedy explores the relationship between knowledge practices and global transformations, with particular regional expertise in Europe and Eurasia. He also extends a public sociology of Trump and other authoritarianisms emerging from democracy's contradictions.
Kennedy, M. D. "Europeanizing Contention: The Protest against "Fortress Europe" in France and Germany." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 45, no. 3, 2016, pp. 334-336. |
Kennedy, M. D. "Centering the Edge in the Shift from Inequality to Expulsion." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 44, no. 1, 2015, pp. 11-14. |
Kennedy, Michael D. "Russia vs. the EU: The Competition for Influence in Post-Soviet States. By Jakob Tolstrup. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2014. 295p. $75.00." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 13, no. 01, 2015, pp. 263-264. |
Kennedy, M. D. "From 'Civil Society' to 'Europe': A Sociological Study on Constitutionalism after Communism." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 43, no. 5, 2014, pp. 738-739. |
Kennedy, Michael D. "Rewriting the Death and Afterlife of a Corporation: Bethlehem Steel." Biography, vol. 37, no. 1, 2014, pp. 246-278. |
Kennedy, Michael D. "Engaged Ethnography Under Communist Rule." Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 60, no. 4, 2013, pp. 28-34. |
Aalto, Pami, Dusseault, David, Kennedy, Michael D, Kivinen, Markku. "Russia's energy relations in Europe and the Far East: towards a social structurationist approach to energy policy formation." J Int Relat Dev, vol. 17, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-29. |
Kennedy, M. D. "Circular Validations and Modes of Understanding from Socialism to Wall Street." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 41, no. 4, 2012, pp. 456-460. |
Kennedy, Michael D. "Soviet Studies, National Security and the Production of “Useful” Knowledge." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8, no. 04, 2010, pp. 1163-1166. |
Kennedy, M. D. "European Integration as an Elite Process: The Failure of a Dream?." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 38, no. 4, 2009, pp. 342-343. |
Kennedy, M. D. "Calhoun's Critical Sociology of Cosmopolitanism, Solidarity and Public Space." Thesis Eleven, vol. 84, no. 1, 2006, pp. 73-89. |
Kennedy, M. D. "The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, vol. 35, no. 1, 2006, pp. 61-62. |
Verdery, Katherine, Bernhard, Michael, Kopstein, Jeffrey, Stokes, Gale, Kennedy, Michael D. "Rereading The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power." Theory and Society, vol. 34, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-36. |
Kennedy, Michael D. "Evolution and Event in History and Social Change: Gerhard Lenski's Critical Theory." Sociological Theory, vol. 22, no. 2, 2004, pp. 315-327. |
Print and Electronic Articles, Chapters and Review Essays
Year | Degree | Institution |
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1985 | PhD | University of North Carolina |
1981 | MA | University of North Carolina |
1979 | BA | Davidson College |
SOC 0010 - Culture, Power and Social Change |
SOC 0010 - Perspectives on Society: An Introduction to Sociology |
SOC 0010 - Social Forces: An Introduction to Sociology |
SOC 0300T - Contrasting Societies: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Trump |
SOC 1871J - Ethics, Justice, and Transformations in Engaged Scholarship |
SOC 1871R - Knowledge Networks and Global Transformation |
SOC 1871Z - Martial Arts, Culture, and Society |
SOC 2090 - Culture and Social Structure |
SOC 2960K - Comparative Political Sociology |
SOC 2961S - Contradictions, Solidarities and Reflexivities |
SOC 2962C - Knowledge Cultural Sociology |