CURRICULUM
VITA
BENJAMIN D. ZABLOCKI
Place of Birth: Brooklyn,
NY
Department of Sociology (732) 445-3344 or
445-4139
Rutgers University
(732)
445-0974 [fax]
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue (732)
828-6589 [home]
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8045
email: zablocki@sociology.rutgers.edu [email]
web page:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~zablocki
EDUCATION
B.A. COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY 1962 Mathematics
Ph.D. THE JOHNS
HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 1967 Social
Relations
Post
Doc HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY 1981 Psychiatry and
Psychology
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
Assistant
Professor, Department of Sociology, (1966-72)
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Senior
Research Fellow, Environmental Quality Laboratory, and Lecturer, Division of
Humanities and Social Sciences, (1972-73)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Associate
Professor, Department of Sociology, (1973-77)
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Associate
Professor, Department of Sociology (1977-82)
Professor,
Department of Sociology (1982- the present)
Director
of Graduate Studies, Dept of Sociology (2004-2006)
Chair, Department of Sociology (2006 - present)
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
Visiting
Lecturer (1972-73)
CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH, New York City
Senior Research Associate (1973-82)
HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia
Visiting
Professor, Division of Mental Health Sciences (1980-81)
RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY
Director,
Sociological Laboratory (1977-82)
Director,
Social Science Research Center (1982-94)
Associate
Member, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (1985-2000)
Director,
Computing Division of Center for Social Science Research and Instruction
(1999-2002)
UNIVERSITY
OF PISA, Pisa, Italy
Visiting
Professor (2004)
FUNDED
SUPPORT
Structures
of Social and Spiritual Capital in Religious and Nonreligious Groups. The
Templeton Foundation [co-principal investigator] ($153,000) 2006-2008
Religious
Movement Survival After Death of Charismatic Leader. Rutgers University Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs ($1,000) 2005-2006
Networks
of Influence and Affect: A 25 Year Panel Study. National Science Foundation [principal investigator] ($171,960)
1999-2001
Crises
of Authenticity in New Religious Movements, Rutgers
University Center for Historical Analysis ($2,000) 1996
An
Instructional Classroom for the Social Sciences. State of New Jersey Equipment Leasing Fund ($11,500) 1994
The
American Family Panel: A Pilot Study for Longitudinal Investigation of the
Changing Values in the American Family.
1992-93, Lilly Endowment, [co-investigator] ($74,000) 1992-93
Computing
Foundations for a Common Methods Curriculum in the Social Sciences. Rutgers
University Council for the Improvement of Teaching. [sole investigator]
($6,400) 1987
The
Online Community: An Emerging Psychosocial Phenomenon. Rutgers
University Research Council [sole investigator] ($1,000) 1985
Early
to Mid-Adult Marijuana Use: A Longitudinal Study. National Institute on Drug
Abuse, [principal
investigator] ($698,631) 1985-88
A
Pilot Study of Drug Rehabilitation in Communal Households. The
Rutgers Research Council. [sole
investigator] ($1,200) 1984
Data
Base Instruction in Sociology. The Rutgers University Council for
Instructional Development. [sole investigator] ($4,116) 1984
The
Enduring Effects of Collective Influence.
National Science Foundation
[principal investigator] ($66,125) 1982-1984
A
Study of Intergenerational Family Networks.
The Rutgers University Research
Council. [sole investigator]
($1,600) 1981
Developing
a Computer Package for the Multiplex Analysis of Sociometric Network Data. The
Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences. (sole investigator). ($4,000)
1976
Alienation
and the Investment of Self in the Urban Commune. National Institute of
Mental Health (principal investigator).
($113,000) 1974-1976
A
Comparative Study of Day Care Systems in Six Large American Cities. The Russell Sage Foundation. (principal investigator). ($142,000)
1974-1976
FELLOWSHIPS
Rutgers
University Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (1999-2000)
Rutgers
University Center for Historical Analysis (1996-1997)
National
Institute of Mental Health, Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1963-1966)
NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
INTERNATIONAL
CULTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Member,
Executive Board (2003-present)
NATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
Member,
Social Science and Population Study Section (1980-84)
NATIONAL
SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Social Science grant proposal reviewer (1978-present)
AMERICAN
SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Council,
Community Section (1982-83)
William J. Goode Book Award Committee (1987)
EDITORIAL
BOARDS
Nova
Religio, 1998-present
Simulations
and Games, 1975-1978
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Religious Totalism [edited volume, Zablocki et al] Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press (forthcoming). Note: This book has been held up by prolonged
litigation threats.
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity
in a Controversial Field [edited
volume, Zablocki and Robbins] Toronto: University of of Toronto Press. (2001).
Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary
American Communes. New York:
The Free Press. (1980)
The Joyful Community: An Account of the Bruderhof—
A Communal Movement Now in Its Third
Generation. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press (1980)
(originally published by Penguin Books, 1971)
Articles and Chapters:
“A Relational Perspective on the Charismatic Legitimation of
Violence” Criminologie (forthcoming)
“Accounting for Cultic Memories” in Benjamin Zablocki et al (ed.) Religious Totalism. Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press (forthcoming)
“Methodological Fallacies in Anthony’s Critique of the
Brainwashing Conjecture” Journal of
Cultic Studies 28 (2005)
“Research on New Religious Movements in the Post 9/11 World” in Philip
Lucas and Thomas Robbins (ed.) The Future
of New Religions in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge (with J. Anna Looney) (2003)
“The Reliability and Validity of Apostate Accounts in the Study of
New Religious Movements.” Apologetics Index (2003)
“The Urban Communes Data Set: A Gold Mine for Secondary Research” Connections 24:54-59 (with John Levi
Martin and King-To Yeung) (2002)
“Foreword to From Slogans to Mantras” in Stephen Kent, From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and
Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era. Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press (2002)
“Vulnerability and Objectivity in the Participant Observation of
the Sacred” Religion and Social
Order 9:225-245 (2001)
“Finding a Middle Ground in a Polarized Scholarly Arena” in
Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (ed.) in Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial
Field. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2001).
“Toward a Demystified and Disinterested Scientific Theory of
Brainwashing” in Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (ed.) in Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for
Objectivity in a Controversial Field. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
(2001).
“What the Study of Communities Can Tell Us About the Feasibility
of Community” in Ed Lehman (ed.) Communitarian
Thought. Baltimore: Rowen and Littlefield (1999).
“Distinguishing Abusive From Benign Religions” Cult Info (1999).
“Hyper Compliance in Charismatic Groups” in David Franks and Tom
Smith (ed.) Social Perspectives on Emotion
(vol 5). Greenwich, CN: JAI Press (1999)
“Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of
Brainwashing.” Nova Religio. (1998)
“Reply to Bromley” Nova
Religio. (1998)
“Reply to ‘Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology’ by
Bartholomew and O’Dea” International
Journal for the Psychology of Religion. (1998)
“The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the
Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion.” Nova
Religio (1997)
“Introduction” to Miriam Arnold Holmes Cast Out in the World. San Francisco: Carrier Pigeon. (1997)
“Methodological Individualism and Collective Behavior.” in Jon
Clark (ed.) The Work of James S. Coleman.
London: Falmer (1995)
“A Bill of Rights for Intentional
Communities” Communities (1995)
"Rational Models of Charismatic Influence." in Aage Sorensen and Seymour Spilerman (ed.)
Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays
in Honor of James S. Coleman. New
York: Praeger. (1993)
"Marijuana Use, Introspectiveness, and Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. (with Angela Aidala, Stephen Hansell, and
Helene Raskin White) (1991)
"The Communes of the 1970s: Who Joined and Why?" Journal
of Family Issues. (with Angela Aidala)
(1991)
"A Longitudinal Investigation of Drug Use and Work Patterns
among Adults." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
(with Helene Raskin White and Angela Aidala) (1988)
"Oneida Community" World
Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book (1988)
"Hippies" World
Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book (1988)
"National and International Social Implications of Decision
Criteria for Nonproliferation Requirements" in Robert Sachs (ed.) National Energy Issues. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger (1981)
"Communal Living," in
Encyclopedia International.
Danbury, CN: Grolier Publishing
Co. (1980)
"Communes, Encounter Groups, and the Search for
Community," in Kenneth Boch (ed.) In
Search for Community. Denver,
American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposia. (1978)
"Other Choices: A
Sociologist Explores Alternatives to the Contemporary American Family," in
Israel Zwerling (ed.) The American Family. Philadelphia: Smith, Kline & French.
(1978)
"The Use of Crisis as a Mechanism of Social Control," in
George Zollschan and Walter Hirsch (eds.) Social
Change: Conjectures, Explorations, and
Diagnoses. Cambridge: Schenkman
Publishing Co. (1976)
"The Differentiation of Lifestyles," Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 2, p.
269, Palo Alto: Annual Reviews (with
Rosabeth Kanter). (1976)
The Bureaucratization of Child care.
New York: Bureau of Applied
Social Research and The Russell Sage Foundation. (1976)
"Problems of Anarchism in Hippie Communes." in Rosabeth
Kanter (ed.) Communes: Creating and
Managing the Collective Life. New
York: Harper and Row. (1972)
"The Social Structure of Drug Based Communes," in Drug Abuse and Drug Subculture. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing office.
(1972)
“The Genesis of Normative Systems in Rural Hippie Communities.” in
Robert Buckout (ed.) Toward Social Change.
New York: Harper and Row. (1971)
"Anarchy and Decision Making in the Contemporary
Commune." Proceedings of the Institute For Advanced Studies (Seminar on Decision
Making in Non-Voting Groups). Vienna, Austria. (1971)
“Dictator’s Dilemma: A Simulation of the Hoarding and Sharing of
Scarce Resources under Varying Collective Decision Rules.” Proceedings
of the Institute For Advanced Studies (Seminar on Decision Making in Non-Voting
Groups). Vienna, Austria. (1971)
RESEARCH REPORTS
“Reported Motivations for Using and Abandoning the Use of
Marijuana.” Urban Communes Project, Rutgers University (with Angela Aidala and
Helene Raskin White) 1988
“Early to Mid-Adult Marijuana Use: Second Year Report.” Project
Report, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE, Washington, DC (with Angela Aidala
and Helene Raskin White) 1987
“Rates of Substance Use by Sex and Religious Background.” Urban
Communes Project, Rutgers University (with Angela Aidala and Helene Raskin
White) 1987
“The Timing of Events in Marijuana Use Careers.” Urban Communes
Project, Rutgers University (with Debbi Schaubman) 1987
“Early to Mid-Adult Marijuana Use: First Year Report.” Project
Report, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE, Washington, DC (with Angela Aidala
and Helene Raskin White) 1986.
“Computer Applications in Social and Behavioral Science
Instruction.” Social Science Research Center Position Paper (with D.R. Smith)
1984
“Some Theoretical Convergences Between Sociology and Family
Systems Theory.” Hahnemann University Seminar on Recent Advances in the Social
Sciences 1981
“The Looking Glass Self: A Testable Model.” Urban Communes
Project, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University 1977
“Fracture Points in the Decay of Communal Households.” Urban Communes Project, Bureau of Applied
Social Research, Columbia University 1976
“Alienation and Investment of Self in the Urban Commune.” Project
Report, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH, Washington, DC 1976
“A Computer Program for Multi-Level Survey Analysis With Panel
Data” Ad-Hoc Network Seminar, Columbia University (with others) 1975
“Estimating the Parameters in a Two-Stage Sampling Model with a
Scarce and Uncountable Population.” Urban Communes Project, Bureau of Applied
Social Research, Columbia University 1974
“Solar Water Heating: A Model of the Assisted Diffusion of an
Innovation.” Environmental Quality Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology (with others) 1973
“The Cerritos Report: A Study of the Unanticipated Ecological and
Demographic Effects of Rapid
Suburbanization in Southern California.” Environmental Quality Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology (with others) 1973
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“Post-Cultic Regret,” to be presented at the Annual Meetings of
the International Cultic Studies Association, Brussels (2007)
“The Brainwashing Concept: Is it Passé?” to be presented at the
Annual Meetings of the International Cultic Studies Association, Brussels
(2007)
“The Predictive Effect of Emotions on Friendship Dyads’ Endurance
over the Adult Life Course,” presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Montreal (2006)
“Charismatic Discipleship Careers” presented at the Annual
Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston (2006)
“Changes in Religious Doubt in A Life Course Perspective,”
presented at the Annual Meetings of the Asociation for the Study of Religion,
Philadelphia (2005)
“Mechanisms of Influence in Religious Recruitment,” presented at
the annual meetings of the International Cultic Studies Association, Madrid,
Spain (2005)
“Distinguishing Harmful from Unharmful Religious Movements,”
presented at the annual meetings of the International Cultic Studies
Association, Madrid, Spain (2005)
“Cognitive Theory in Lalich’s Bounded Choice Model of Cults”
presented at the annual meetings of the American Family Foundation, Atlanta
(2004)
The Aging of Disciple Relationships” presented at the annual
meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, San Francisco (2004)
“Methodological Falacies in Anthony’s Critique of Exit Cost
Analysis” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Norfolk, VA (2003)
“Gender Differences in Religiosity 25 Years After Initial Cult
Experience” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Norfolk, VA (2003)
“Epistemological Controversies in the Study of Extreme Persuasion”
presented at the annual meetings of the Social Practice Association, Atlanta
(2003)
“Life Course Versus Episodic Approaches to the Study of New
Religious Movement Careers” presented at the annual meetings of the Association
for the Sociology of Religion, Atlanta (2003)
“Theories of Cult Involvement Must be Based on Empirical Research”
presented at the annual meetings of the American Family Foundation, Orange, CA
(2003)
“Gender Differences in a Quarter-Century Panel Study on Cult
Participation” presented at the annual meetings of the American Family
Foundation, Orange, CA (2003)
“A Critique of Julius Rubin’s Book: The Other Side of Joy”
presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion, Columbus, OH (2001)
“A Re-Analysis of the Wessinger Data on Millenarian Violence in
Religious Groups” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH (2001)
“Charismatic Relationships: Interactive Dependencies between
Leaders and Followers” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH (2001)
“The Legacy of Tom Robbin: The Voice of a Moderate” presented at
the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
Columbus, OH (2001)
“A Critique of Psychological Methodology in the Scientific Study
of Religious Conversion” presented at the annual meetings of the American
Family Foundation, Newark (2001)
“Cults and the Social Sciences” presented at the annual meetings
of the American Family Foundation, Newark (2001)
“Millennial Social Movements” presented at the annual meetings of
the American Sociological Association, Anaheim (2001)
“Critique of Apocalypse Observed” presented at the annual meetings
of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Houston (2000)
“Questions of Motivation in NRM Research” presented at the annual
meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Houston (2000)
“The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements” presented at the
annual meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Washington,
DC (2000)
“The Need for Triangulation in the Study of New Religious
Movements” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Montreal (1998)
“Vulnerability and Objectivity in the Act of
Participant-Observation of the Sacred” presented at the annual meetings of the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Montreal (1998)
“What Communities Can Teach Us About Community” presented at the
annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
(1998)
“Hallmarks, Hooligans, and Hostages: Three Aspects of Children in
Cults” presented at the annual meetings of the American Family Foundation,
Philadelphia, PA (1998)
“Distinguishing Front-Stage from Back-Stage Behavior in the Study
of Religious Communities” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego, CA (1997)
“The Manipulation of Exit Costs to Reduce Switching By Sectarian
Groups in Competitive Religious Markets” presented at the annual meetings of
the Association for the Sociology of Relgion, Toronto, Canada (1997)
“A Sociological Theory of Cults” presented at the annual meetings
of the American Family Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (1997)
“The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the
Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion” presented at the annual
meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Nashville, TN
(1996)
“Authenticity as a Resource: The Management and Transmission of
Charismatic Authentication Mechanisms in Religious Organizations” presented at
the seminar on Religion of the Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers
University (1996)
“The Reliability and Validity of Apostate Accounts in the Study of
New Religious Movements.” presented at the annual meetings, Association for the
Sociology of Religion, New York City (1996)
“Strategies For Religious Totalism in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Sectarian Communities” presented at the annual meetings, American Sociological
Association, Washington, D.C. (1995)
“Charismatic Succession and Crises of Authenticity in Religious
Communities: A Comparative and Historical Analysis.” Association For the Sociology of Religion annual meetings, Los
Angeles, (1994)
"The Scientific Investigation of the Brainwashing
Conjecture." American Association
for the Advancement of Science annual meetings, Washington, D.C. (1991)
"Subtle Effects of Cult Membership." Society for the Study of Social Influence
annual meetings, Los Angeles, (1988)
“Drug Use and Work Patterns Among Adults” Society for the Study of Social Problems
annual meetings, Atlanta, GA,
(1988) (with Angela Aidala and Helene
Raskin White)
"The Drug Consumption Patterns of Baby Boomers: Age, Birth
Cohort, Period and Subculture Effects."
Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meetings, Atlanta, GA, (1988) (with Angela Aidala and Helene Raskin White)
"Alternatives to Conventional Adulthood: Ideals and Practices
in a Spiritual Community." Eastern
Sociological Society annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA, (1988)
“Models of Education in the Kibbutz and American Communes” Hebrew
University School of Education Symposium on Kibbutz Education (1985)
"Alienation in Communes" International Conference on
Kibbutz and Communes, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (1985)
“Using Computers with Large Online Data Sets to Teach Sociology”
American Sociological Association (1984)
"Sudden Loss of Charisma" American Sociological
Association (1982)
“Cult Membership as a Rejection of Jewish Community” American
Sociological Association (1981)
"Follow the Leader: Motives and Settings of Apocalyptic
Cultures" California School of Professional Psychology (1979)
“Energy and Behavior” session chair at conference on “The Social
Dimensions of Energy Options” Ramapo College (1979)
"The Community and the Individual" Conference on Shaker
Life, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut. (1978)
“New Communities: An Examination of Assumptions” American
Sociological Association (1978)
"Alternate Lifestyles" American Orthopsychiatric
Society, (1977)
“Growing Up in Intentional Communities” Harvard University School
of Education (1977)
“Use of Network Analysis to Predict the Solidarity of Communal
Groups” University of Chicago Seminar on Network Analysis (1976)
“Commitment and Social Control in Communitarian Societies”
Columbia University Seminar on Individual and Society (1976)
“Alienation and Charisma in a Context of Decision Making” Public
Choice Society (1975)
“Models of Utopia in Contemporary American Society” Swarthmore
College (1974)
“The Bruderhof: How it has Changed Since the 1960s” Cornell
University (1974)
“Communes, Planning, and the Future of Community in America”
American Sociological Association (1973)
“Communal Childrearing in Comparative Perspective” American
Psychological Association 1972 [Revised version presented at Annual Symposium
of the University of Minnesota Center for the Study of the Family, 1973]
“Some Models of Commune Integration and Disintegration” American
Sociological Association (1972)
MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Documentary on Cultic Violence and Criminal Behavior for The
Discovery Channel (2006) Interview Format
Documentary on New Religious Movements for RAI (Italian National
Television (2005) Interview format
Late Night With Rod and Al on BBC (2003)
Interview format
48
Hours (CBS) (1997) Dan Rather Special on Cults
6:00 News (ch 69 NJ) (1997) Interview format
Sonia Live in LA (CNN) (1989) Talk Show
Format
Miscellaneous local and network radio
appearances (1971-present)
Miscellaneous interviews in Time, Newsweek, US News and World
Report, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco
Chronicle
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
The Joyful Community Revisited
The Aging of Idealism
The
Brainwashing Conjecture
Articles
“The Determinants of Commune Longevity”
“Age Period, Cohort and Subculture Effects on Substance Use” (with
Angela Aidala and Helene Raskin White)
“Free-Riders and Zealots in Dictator’s Dilemma”
“The Presentation of Self in the Online Community”
“Gender Differences in the Conversion To and Deconversion From New
Religious Movements”
“Belief in God as a Function of Family, Peer, and Lifecourse
Influences” (with John Martin, Anna Looney, King-To Yeung, Ko-Yu Pan)
“Positive Emotions, Negative Emotions, and Mixed Emotions as
Predictors of Tie Retention” (with Elizabeth Williamson)
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
Representative, Recruitment Planning Committee, Department of
Sociology, Rutgers University (2006-present)
Chair, Events Committee, Department of Sociology, Rutgers
University (2006-present)
Representative from the Department of Sociology to the Rutgers
Foundation (2006-present)
Representative to Promotion Reading Committee, Department of
Sociology, Rutgers University (2005-present)
Chair, Computing Committee, Department of Sociology, Rutgers
University (2004-present)
Representative to the Graduate Program Committee, Dept of
Sociology, Rutgers University (2004-present)
Representative to the Executive Committee, Dept of Sociology,
Rutgers University (2004-present)
Chair, Web Page Committee, Department of Sociology, Rutgers
University (2004-present)
Faculty Mentor (2003-present)
Representative to the PEC Committee, Dept of Sociology, Rutgers
University, (2001, 2005, 2006)
Representative to the Search Committee, Dept of Sociology, Rutgers
University, (2001-present)
Representative to the CSRI Oversight Committee, Dept of Sociology,
Rutgers University, (2001-present)
Representative to Personnel Committee, Dept of Sociology, Rutgers
University, (2001-present)
Representative to the Graduate Program Committee, Dept. of
Sociology, Rutgers University (2001- present)
Representative to the CSRI Advisory Council (1999-2000)
Representative to the Undergraduate Seed Grant Evaluation
Committee, Rutgers University, (1998-1999)
Representative to the Year 2000 Computing Committee, Rutgers
University, (1998-1999)
Representative to Personnel Committee, Dept of Sociology, Rutgers
University, (1998-1999, 2006-2007)
Representative to Executive Committee, Dept of Sociology, Rutgers
University, (1998-1999, 2004-present)
Representative to Recruitment Committee, Dept of Sociology,
Rutgers University, (1996-1998)
Representative to the Bylaws Committee, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, Rutgers University (1996-present)
Representative to the Faculty Council, Rutgers University
(1990-1991)
Chair, Interdepartmental Steering Committee of the Social Science
Research Center, Rutgers University (1982-1991)
Representative, Committee on Budget and Planning, Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Rutgers University (1988-89)
Representative, Rutgers University Supercomputer Fellowship
Committee (1986-88)
Chair, Interdepartmental Committee of Graduate Instruction in
Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (1985-89)
Representative or Alternate to Appointments and Promotions
Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University (most years,
1982-present)
Representative to Executive Committee, Department of Sociology,
Rutgers University (1979-1985)
Representative from the Department of Sociology to the
International Association for Information Service and Technology (1983-84)
Representative from the Department of Sociology to the Graduate
School Social Science Curriculum Review Committee, Rutgers University (1978-80,
2004-present)
Chair, Committee on Graduate Methods Training and Comprehensive
Examinations, Sociology Department, Rutgers University (1977-82)
Chair, Committee on Methodology and Mathematical Sociology
Curriculum, Dept of Sociology, Columbia University (1975-77)
Chair, Committee on Methodology and Mathematical Sociology
Curriculum, Dept of Sociology, Columbia University (1975-77)
Chair, Committee on Methodology and Mathematical Sociology
Curriculum, Dept of Sociology, Columbia University (1975-77)
Chair, Ad Hoc Faculty Seminar on the Application of Graph Theory
and Network Analysis to Social Research, Columbia University (1974-78)
Chair, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee in Mathematical
Sociology, Columbia University (1974-76)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate: Social Psychology, Religion, Theory,
Alcohol Problems, Methods, Computer Methods, Statistics, Advanced Statistics,
Interviewing Techniques, Demography, Family, Urban, Deviance, Political
Sociology, Social Movements, Utopian Societies, Community, Social Networks,
Collective Decision Making, Games and Simulations
Graduate: Social Psychology, Classical Theory,
Research Methods, Statistics, Religion, Math Models, Field Methods, Collective
Behavior, Research Design, Network Analysis, Interviewing Techniques
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
Elizabeth Williamson (in progress) “Mobilizing Emotions and Constructing
Culture at Social Movement Recruiting and Training Events” Rutgers University
Marti Blose (in progress) “Female Tattoo Artists: The
Professionalization of a Deviant Occupation” Rutgers University.
Brian Hall (2002) “Chinese Americans at the Border of Christian
Faith” Rutgers University.
Richard Phillips (2001) “Saints in ‘Zion,’ Saints in ‘Babylon’:
Mormonism, Pluralism, and the Transformation of Religious Vitality in the
United States” Rutgers University.
Meri Wieder. (1996) “Family Background and Community Dynamics”
Rutgers University School of Nursing.
J. Anna Looney (1995) “New Perspectives on Past Commitments:
Mid-Life Reflections on Past Experience in Young Adulthood” Rutgers University.
Deborah Podus (1992) “Taxing Problems in Church-State Relations”
Rutgers University
Nathan Church (1983) “The Stability of Religious Communes” Rutgers
University