Daniel Levy (sociologist)
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Daniel Levy is a German
–American
political sociologist
and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology
and political science
(1986) and a Master of Arts in sociology (1990) from Tel Aviv University
, as well as a Doctorate of sociology from Columbia University
in 1999. He is a specialist on issues relating to globalization
, collective memory studies
, and comparative historical sociology
. Levy, along with the historians Paul Gootenberg
and Herman Lebovics, is a founder and organizer of the Initiative for Historical Social Science, a program that is run out of Stony Brook with the goal of promoting the "New Historical Social Sciences". He also, along with the Human Rights
scholar and historian Elazar Barkan, is the founder of the "History, Redress, and Reconciliation" Seminar series at Columbia University. The seminars are an attempt to provide "a forum for interdisciplinary work on issues at the intersection of history, memory, and contemporary politics" focusing particularly on the "redressing [of] past wrongs and gross violations of human rights
."
Levy serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Association
's Rose Series in Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory
,, and for Memory Studies.
Among his recent publications are The Collective Memory Reader Oxford University Press
, 2011 with Jeffrey K. Olick and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.
He has co-authored two books with Natan Sznaider. Memory and the Holocaust in a Global Age (Temple University Press)[8][9] and in 2010 Human Rights and Memory (Penn State Press).
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
–American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
political sociologist
Political sociology
Contemporary political sociology involves much more than the study of the relations between state and society . Where a typical research question in political sociology might have been: "Why do so few American citizens choose to vote?" or even, "What difference does it make if women get elected?" ...
and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
(1986) and a Master of Arts in sociology (1990) from Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
, as well as a Doctorate of sociology from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1999. He is a specialist on issues relating to globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
, collective memory studies
Memory Studies
Memory Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Communication. The journal's editors are Andrew Hoskins , Amanda Barnier , Wulf Kansteiner and John Sutton...
, and comparative historical sociology
Historical sociology
Historical sociology is a branch of sociology focusing on how societies develop through history. It looks at how social structure that many regard as natural are in fact shaped by complex social processes...
. Levy, along with the historians Paul Gootenberg
Paul Gootenberg
Paul E. Gootenberg is a historian of Latin America who specializes in the history of the Andean drug trade, the fields of Peruvian and Mexican history, as well as historical sociology. He earned an M. Phil from the University of Oxford and a Ph. D...
and Herman Lebovics, is a founder and organizer of the Initiative for Historical Social Science, a program that is run out of Stony Brook with the goal of promoting the "New Historical Social Sciences". He also, along with the Human Rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
scholar and historian Elazar Barkan, is the founder of the "History, Redress, and Reconciliation" Seminar series at Columbia University. The seminars are an attempt to provide "a forum for interdisciplinary work on issues at the intersection of history, memory, and contemporary politics" focusing particularly on the "redressing [of] past wrongs and gross violations of human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
."
Levy serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
's Rose Series in Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory
European Journal of Social Theory
European Journal of Social Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Sociology. The journal's editor is Gerard Delanty...
,, and for Memory Studies.
Among his recent publications are The Collective Memory Reader Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 2011 with Jeffrey K. Olick and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.
He has co-authored two books with Natan Sznaider. Memory and the Holocaust in a Global Age (Temple University Press)[8][9] and in 2010 Human Rights and Memory (Penn State Press).
Books
- Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (ed.) (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002) with Yfaat Weiss
- Memory and the Holocaust in a Global Age (Philadelphia: Temple University PressTemple University PressTemple University Press is a university press publishing house that is part of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The press was founded in 1969....
, 2006) with Natan Sznaider - Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War (ed.) (London: Verso BooksVerso BooksVerso Books is a publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review. The company claims "global sales approaching $3 million per year and over 350 titles in print," possibly making it "the largest radical publisher in the English-language...
, 2005) with Max Pensky and John Torpey - Human Rights and Memory (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010) with Natan Sznaider. ISBN 9780271037387.
- The Collective Memory Reader (Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 2011) with Jeffrey K. Olick and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi. ISBN 9780195337426.
Book chapters
- "Coming Home? Ethnic Germans and the Transformation of National Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany" in Geddes, Andrew and Adrian Favell Immigration and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Europe. (Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 1999)
- "Refugees, Expellees, and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Social, Political, and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process" in Rock, David and Stefan WolffStefan WolffStefan Wolff is a German political scientist. He is a specialist in international security, particularly in the management, settlement and prevention of ethnic conflicts. He is currently Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom...
(eds.) Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. (Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2002) - "The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-Cultural Idiom: The Case of Ethnic German Immigrants" in Levy, Daniel and Yfaat Weiss Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002)
- "Institutionalizing the Past: Shifting Memories of Nationhood in German Education and Immigration Legislation" with Julian Dierkes in Mueller, Jan Werner (ed.) Memory and Power in International Relations. (Cambridge, Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 2003) - "The Politicization of Ethnic German Immigrants: The Transformation of State Priorities" in Münz, Rainer and Rainer Ohliger (eds.) (London: Frank Cass Pub., 2003
- "The Cosmopolitan Figuration: Historicizing Reflexive Modernization" in Poferl, Angelika and Natan Sznaider (eds.) Ulrich Beck's kosmopolitisches Projekt. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004)
- "Holocaust and Social Theory" with Natan Sznaider in Ritzer, GeorgeGeorge RitzerGeorge Ritzer is a sociologist who studies American patterns of consumption, globalization, metatheory, and modern and postmodern social theory...
(ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Theory. (New York: Sage, 2004) - "Forgive and Not Forget: Reconciliation Between Forgiveness and Resentment" with Natan Sznaider in Barkan, Elazar and Alexander Karn (eds.) Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation. (Palo Alto: Stanford University PressStanford University PressThe Stanford University Press is the publishing house of Stanford University. In 1892, an independent publishing company was established at the university. The first use of the name "Stanford University Press" in a book's imprinting occurred in 1895...
, 2005) - "The Politics of Commemoration: The Holocaust, Memory, and Trauma" with Natan Sznaider in Delanty, Gerard (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. (New York: RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 2005) - "Memories of Europe: Cosmopolitanism and its Others" with Natan Sznaider in Rumford, Chris (ed.) Cosmopolitanism in Europe. (Liverpool: Liverpool University PressLiverpool University PressLiverpool University Press, founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press....
, 2007) - “Vom Holocaust zur kosmopolitischen Erinnerungskultur” with Natan Sznaider in Beck, Ulrich (ed.) Generation Global. (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2007)
- "The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience" with Natan Sznaider in Gerson, Judith M. and Wolf, Diane L. (eds.) Sociology Confronts the Holocaust. (Duke University PressDuke University PressDuke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University. It publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 journals, as well as offering five electronic collections...
, 2007) - "Cosmopolitanization of Memory: The Politics of Forgiveness and Restitution" with Natan Sznaider and Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
in Nowicka, Magdalena and Maria Rovisco (eds.) Cosmopolitanism in Practice. (Aldershot: Ashgate PublishingAshgate PublishingAshgate Publishing is an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom. It was established in 1967 and specializes in the social sciences, arts, humanities, and professional practice...
, 2009)
Articles
- "Computers and Class: Computers and Social Inequality in Israeli Schools". (1991). Urban EducationUrban EducationUrban Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Urban Studies. The journal's editor is H. Richard Milner . It has been in publication since 1965 and is currently published by SAGE Publications....
. 25 (4): 483–499, with David Navon and Rina Shapira. - "The Intifadah in 'Mabat'". (1992). Politics, Media and Society. 1 (1): 9–30.
- "Mechanisms of Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth and Rationality in German Politics". (1997). American Sociological Review. 62: 921–936, with Jeffrey K. Olick.
- "Historical Memory and the Reconfiguration of Collective Boundaries". (1999). Passato e Presente. 47: 31–42.
- "The Future of the Past: Historiographical Disputes and Competing Memories in Germany and Israel". (1999). History and Theory. 38 (1): 51–66.
- "Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory". (2002). European Journal of Social Theory. 5 (1): 87–106, with Natan Sznaider.
- "The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Morality: The Holocaust and Human Rights". (2004). Journal of Human Rights. 3 (2): 143–157, with Natan Sznaider.
- "Memories of Universal Victimhood: The Case of Ethnic German Expellees". (2005). German Politics and SocietyGerman Politics and SocietyGerman Politics and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Berghahn edited by Jeffrey J. Anderson. It explores issues in modern Germany from the conjointed perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies, and provides a forum for critical analysis and debate...
. 23 (2): 1–27., with Natan Sznaider. - “Kosmopolitische Erinnerung und reflexive Modernisierung: Der politische Diskurs der Zwangsarbeitsentschädigung”. (2005). Soziale Welt. 56 (2): 225–246, with Natan Sznaider and Michael Heinlein.
- "The Transformation of Sovereignty: Towards a Sociology of Human Rights". (2006). British Journal of SociologyBritish Journal of SociologyThe British Journal of Sociology is an academic journal, founded in 1950 at the London School of Economics. The main founders were the sociologists Morris Ginsberg and Thomas Humphrey Marshall. Their intended title, "The London Journal of Sociology", seems to have been changed by the publisher...
. 57 (4): 657–676., with Natan Sznaider. - "Recursive Cosmopolitanization: Argentina and the Global Human Rights Regime". (2010). British Journal of Sociology. 61 (3): 579–596.
- "Reflexive Particularism and Cosmopolitanization: The Reconfiguration of the National". (2011). Global Networks. 11 (2): 139–159, with Michael Heinlein and Lars Breuer.
Book reviews
- The Israeli Diaspora by Steven J. Gold. (2005). International Migration Review. 38: 789.
- Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities in Post–Reunification Germany edited by Richard D. Alba, Peter Schmidt, and Martina Wasmer. (2005). H-Net German.
- Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq by Eric Davis. (2006). Contemporary SociologyContemporary SociologyContemporary Sociology is an academic journal in the field of sociology, published bimonthly by Sage Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association since 1972. Contemporary Sociology publishes reviews and discussions of the most important recent works in sociology and in related...
. 35 (1): 62–63. - Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe by Ruud Koopmans, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy. (2007). Social ForcesSocial ForcesSocial Forces is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by the University of North Carolina Press...
. 86 (1): 373–375. - Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives edited by John Keane. (2007). H-Net German.
- After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff EleyGeoff EleyGeoff Eley is a British-born historian of Germany. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex in 1974, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 1979...
, and Atina Grossmann. (2011). H-Net German.