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Daniel Levy (sociologist)

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Daniel Levy (born 1962) is a German-American political sociologist and professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Education

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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.

Career

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He is a specialist on issues relating to globalization, collective memory studies, and comparative historical sociology.[citation needed] Levy, along with 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".[1]

Levy serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology,[2][3] the European Journal of Social Theory,[2][4] and for Memory Studies.[5]

Works

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Books

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  • 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 Press, 2006) with Natan Sznaider
  • Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War (ed.) (London: Verso Books, 2005) with Max Pensky and John Torpey
  • Human Rights and Memory (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010) with Natan Sznaider. ISBN 978-0-271-03738-7.
  • The Collective Memory Reader (Oxford University Press, 2011) with Jeffrey K. Olick and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi. ISBN 978-0-19-533742-6.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Initiative for Historical Social Sciences". State University of New York, Stony Brook website. Archived from the original on April 21, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Levy, Daniel. "Curriculum Vitae - Daniel Levy" (PDF). State University of New York, Stony Brook website. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 19, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  3. ^ "Rose Series in Sociology Editorial Board Members". American Sociological Association website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  4. ^ "Editor - Daniel Levy". SAGE Publications website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  5. ^ "Memory Studies Editorial Board". SAGE Publications website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.