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Social Thought & Analysis
Social Thought & Analysis is the first undergraduate major of its kind to be offered in the nation. It is an interdisciplinary program that examines the nature and impact of societal structures and processes, as well as the development of social theory since the 17th century.
Faculty from many disciplines — anthropology, economics, education, history, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology and social work — provide a comprehensive, more inclusive look at society and culture for the 21st century.
The faculty, which is involved in multidisciplinary, community-based research as well as international research, addresses human interaction in groups from social, historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Particular attention is given to social problems that arise from distributions of power and resources.
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Broadening social science's scope
Social Thought & Analysis finds new home in American Culture Studies
Aug. 29,
2006 -- Social Thought & Analysis (STA), an interdisciplinary degree program in Arts & Sciences, has moved to American Culture Studies, according to Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and dean of academic planning in Arts & Sciences.
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Highly competitive fellowship program
Washington University's John Bowen one of 16 nationwide selected a Carnegie Scholar
Nov. 11,
2005 -- John R. Bowen, Ph.D., the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Bowen, who also is chair and professor of Social Thought and Analysis in Arts & Sciences, is one of 16 scholars nationwide selected in this highly competitive fellowship program.
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Warning shot fired
Democrats' closing of Senate session offers taste of tactics for battling Supreme Court nomination
Nov. 2,
2005 --
By invoking a little known procedural rule to force a closed session of the Senate on Tuesday, Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid put Republicans on notice that Democrats are prepared to use similar tactics, such as the filibuster, in pending Supreme Court nomination battles, suggests WUSTL congressional expert Steven Smith. Reid's move "was a shot across the bow," says Smith.
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Joseph Loewenstein
Professor of English in Arts & Sciences
Joseph Loewenstein's recent books — "The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright" (2002) and "Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship" (2002) — are studies of Early Modern intellectual property, the prehistory of modern copyright, but he is also extremely interested in prosody and poetics. ...
Expertise: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Jonson, Renaissance poetry and drama, poetics, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4404
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jfloewen@wustl.edu
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Howard Brick
Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
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Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...
Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4251
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hbrick@wustl.edu
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Jack Knight
Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences
Knight's research interest are modern social and political theory; law and legal theory; political economy; and philosophy of social science. Publications include Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Explaining Social Institutions (with Itai Sened) (The University ...
Expertise: modern social and political theory, formal theory, legal theory, political economy, political science, government, social thought and analysis
Direct contact: (314) 935-4343
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knight@artsci.wustl.edu
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John R. Bowen
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
Bowen's research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the world-wide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) ...
Expertise: religion and ritual, Islam, social theory, kinship and social organization, historical studies, culture and political change, Sumatra, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5680
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jbowen@artsci.wustl.edu
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