Ronald R. Aminzade
Professor
Ph. D. 1978 University of Michigan
Room 1031 Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-9570
email: aminzade@umn.edu
Interest Areas
Historical and Comparative; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Democratic Theory; Sociology of Higher Education; Sociology of Development; Race Relations.
Current Research
Book length manuscript on race, nationalism, and citizenship in 20th century Tanzania.
Recent Publications
"Historians and the Study of Social Protest," with Brian Dill. Forthcoming 2007. Chapter in Handbook of Social Movements Across the Disciplines, Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans, eds. New York: Springer Publishers.
"Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania," with Erik Larson. Forthcoming 2007. Sociological Quarterly, 48(4).
"Neo-Liberalism and Racial Redress: Indigenization and Politics in Tanzania and Fiji," with Erik Larson. Forthcoming 2007. Research in Political Sociology, vol. 16 (special issue on "Politics, Neo-Liberalism: Structure, Process, Outcome"), Harlan Prechel, ed.
"Dilemmas of Nation Building in Tanzania and Fiji," with Erik Larson. Forthcoming 2007. International Social Science Journal (special issue on "Dilemmas of Nation-Building"), Jerome Brown and George McCall, eds.
"From Race to Citizenship: The Indigenization Debate in Post-Socialist Tanzania." 2003. Comparative Studies in International Development, 38(1): 43-63.
"Introduction: Emotions and Contentious Politics." 2002. Mobilization, Special Issue edited by Ronald Aminzade and Doug McAdam, 7(2): 107-09.
"The Politics of Race and Nation: Citizenship and Africanization in Tanganyika." 2001. Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 14. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
"Leadership Dynamics and Dynamics of Contention" with Jack Goldstone and Elizabeth Perry. 2001. Silence and Voice in Contentious Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
"The Sacred, Religious, and Secular in Contentious Politics: Blurring Boundaries," with Elizabeth Perry. 2001. Silence and Voice in Contentious Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
"Emotions and Contentious Politics," with Doug McAdam. 2001. Silence and Voice in Contentious Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
The Social Worlds of Higher Education, co-edited with Bernice Pescosolido. 1999. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.