| LARRY ISAAC | ||
| Ph.D. Indiana University, 1979 | ||
| TITLE: | Distinguished Professor of Sociology Affiliate Professor of American Studies Editor, American Sociological Review, 2010-2012 |
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| OFFICE: | 319 Garland Hall | |
| EMAIL: | larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu | |
| PHONE: | 615-322-7534 | |
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2008
President, Southern Sociological Society, 2007-2008
Editorial Boards: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Research in Political Sociology, Research in Social Stratification, Work and Occupations,current, Contemporary Sociology, current
Guest Editor, Historical Methods
Chair, Labor Studies Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Braverman Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Barrington Moore Award (for "best recent publication"), Comparative-Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (with Larry Griffin)
Executive Council, Comparative-Historical Section, American Sociological Association
Barrington Moore Award Committee, Comparative-Historical Section, American Sociological Association
Vice-President, Southern Sociological Society
Seven teaching awards (four at the university level), Florida State University
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Named: The Mildred and Claude Pepper Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
COURSES TAUGHT
UNDERGRADUATE:
Introduction to Sociology
Political Sociology
American Social Movements
American Worker in Film
America in the Sixties
Class, Race, and Gender in Gilded Age
America
GRADUATE:
Historical Sociology
Social Movements
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social Movements
Paramilitary Formations
Cultures of Class
Historical Methods
Labor Theory & History
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
The militia movement, class formation, and state-building in Gilded Age America
Biography and history in the early Nashville civil rights movement (with Dan Cornfield, Dennis Dickerson, James Lawson, Jr.)
The influence of lethal repression on the early American labor movement (with Paul Lipold)
Narrative and pictorial characterizations of class in the Gilded Age
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Larry Isaac. 2009. "Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel." American Sociological Review, 74 (December): Forthcoming.
Larry Isaac. "Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions Against Labor in Late 19th Century Industrial Cities." In Strategic Allicances: New Studies of Social Movement Coalitions, edited by Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon. University of Minnesota Press: forthcoming 2010.
Paul Lipold & Larry Isaac. 2009. "Striking Deaths: Lethal Contestation and the 'Exceptional' Character of the American Labor Movement, 1870-1970." International Review of Social History, 54 (August):167-205.
Larry Isaac. 2008. "Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle" Social Forces 87 (1): 33-63.
Larry Isaac. 2008. "Counter Frames and Allegories of Evil: Characterizations of Labor by Gilded Age Elites" Work and Occupations 35 (4): 388-421.
Larry Isaac, Daniel Harrison, Paul Lipold. 2008. "Class Conflict in Capitalist Society: Foundations and Comparative-Historical Patterns." Pp. 275-295. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict edited by Lester Kurtz: Oxford: Academic Press.
Larry Isaac, Steve McDonald, & Greg Lukasik. 2006. "Takin' It from the Streets: How the Sixties Mass Movement Revitalized Unionization." American Journal of Sociology. 112 (1): 46-96.
Larry Isaac & Daniel Harrison. 2006. "Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing Forms of Private Armed Force in America." Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Volume 24:149-184.
Larry Isaac & Lars Christiansen. 2002. "How the Civil Rights Movement Revitalized Labor Militancy." American Sociological Review 67(September):722-746.
Larry Isaac. 2002. "To Counter 'The Very Devil' and More: The Making of Independent Capitalist Militia in Gilded Age America." American Journal of Sociology 108(September):353-405.
Larry Isaac. 2002. "In Search of American Labor's Syndicalist Heritage." Labor Studies Journal 27(Summer):21-37.
