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Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Rutgers University, 605 Hill Hall, 360 Martin Luther King Blvd. University Heights, Newark, NJ   07102, U. S. A.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, 1995. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

M.A., Sociology, 1990. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

B.A., Political Science, 1985. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.


ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 1996 to present.

Associate Professor of Global Affairs. Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2005 to present.

Academic Advisor. International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington D.C. 2003 to present.

Visiting Scholar. Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. 2006.

Visiting Scholar. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1998-1999.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Schock, Kurt. 2005. Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.

•    Published in Spanish as Insurrecciones No Armadas: Poder Popular en Regimenes No
Democráticos. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2008.
Articles in Refereed Journals

Osa, Maryjane, and Kurt Schock. 2007. “A Long, Hard Slog: Political Opportunities, Social Networks and the Mobilization of Dissent in Non-Democracies.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 27: 123-153.

Jenkins, J. Craig, and Kurt Schock. 2003. “Political Process, International Dependence and Mass Political Conflict.” International Journal of Sociology 33 (Winter): 41-63.

Schock, Kurt. 2003. “Nonviolent Action and Its Misconceptions: Insights for Social Scientists.”
PS: Political Science and Politics 36, 4 (October): 705-712.

•    Republished in Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, edited by Matthew Evangelista, Chapter 57. New York: Routledge, 2005.

•    Republished in Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings (tenth edition), edited by Bernard E. Brown, pp. 155-163. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt Brace, 2005.

Schock, Kurt. 1999. “People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma.” Social Problems 46, 3 (August): 355-375. 

Bond, Doug, J. Craig Jenkins, Charles L. Taylor, and Kurt Schock. 1997. “Mapping Mass Political Conflict and Civil Society: Issues and Prospects for the Automated Development of Event Data.”  Journal of Conflict Resolution 41, 4 (August): 553-579. 

Schock, Kurt. 1996. "A Conjunctural Model of Political Conflict: The Impact of Political Opportunities on the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Violent Political Conflict." Journal of Conflict Resolution 40, 1 (March): 98-133.

Jenkins, J. Craig and Kurt Schock. 1992. "Global Structures and Political Processes in the Study of Domestic Political Conflict."  Annual Review of Sociology 18: 161-185.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Schock, Kurt. Forthcoming. “Land Struggles in the Global South: Strategic Innovations of the MST in Brazil and Ekta Parishad in India.” Chapter in Making History: Movements, Strategy and Social Change, edited by Greg Maney, Jeff Goodwin, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, and Deane A. Rohlinger.
Schock, Kurt. 2008. “People Power and Alternative Politics.” Pp. 186-207 in Politics in the Developing World (2nd edition), edited by Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall. London: Oxford University Press.

Schock, Kurt. 2007. “Insurreciones no Armadas y Democratización.” Pp. 47-63 in Poder Social: Algunas Posibilidades en Colombia, edited by Freddy Cante. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2007.

Schock, Kurt. 2006. “Defending and Reclaiming the Commons through Nonviolent Struggle.” In Nonviolent Alternatives for Social Change, edited by Ralph Summy. In the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford: Eolss Publishers.
Encyclopedia Entries

Schock, Kurt. 2009. “Social Movements, Nonviolent.”  In The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Schock, Kurt. 2009. “Methods of Nonviolent Action.” The International Encyclopedia of Peace, edited by Nigel Young. London: Oxford University Press.

Schock, Kurt. 2007. “Social Movements, Nonviolent.”  Pp. 4458-4463 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Book Reviews

Schock, Kurt. 2009. Review of Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (by Sharon Erickson Nepstad). Peace Review.

Schock, Kurt. 2002. Review of Geography and Social Movements: Comparing Antinuclear Activism in the Boston Area (by Byron A. Miller). Social Forces 80, 3 (March): 1127-1128.

Schock, Kurt. 2002. Review of Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective, (edited by Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, and Sarah Beth Asher). Mobilization 7, 1 (Spring).

Schock, Kurt. 1999. Review of The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives, (by James Downton, Jr. and Paul Wehr). Mobilization 4, 1 (April): 117-118.


WORKS IN PROGRESS

Schock, Kurt, and Shaazka Beyerle. “Innovations in the Application of Civil Resistance: Diffuse Struggles against Systemic Oppression.” Chapter in Civil Resistance in the Battle of Ideas: A Technique of Struggle and its Place in Political Thought, edited by Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash, and Thomas Richard Davies. London: Oxford University Press.

Schock, Kurt. Civil Resistance and the Struggle for Land: Experiences in Brazil and India. Book manuscript in preparation.

Schock, Kurt. “Ekta Parishad: Revitalizing the Radical Gandhian Vision in India.” Article in preparation.

Schock, Kurt. “The M.S.T. in Brazil: Forging a Strategy of Radical Agrarian Reform.” Article in preparation.


AWARDS

Best Book of the Year (co-winner). Awarded by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association for Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies. 2005.

Outstanding Doctoral Student. Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1992.


RESEARCH GRANTS AND COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS

Research Grant ($40,000). Awarded by the United States Institute of Peace, 2004-2005.  Project Title: Struggling to Reform: Strategic Nonviolent Action and Land Struggles in India and Brazil.

Research Grant ($3,000). Awarded by the Rutgers University Research Council, 2002-2003. Project title: Struggling to Reform: Strategic Nonviolent Action and Land Struggles in India and Brazil.

Summer Fellowship ($4,700). Awarded by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, for participation in the Summer Institute on Contentious Politics: Seeking Causes, 2000.

Research Fellowship ($39,000). Awarded by the Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998 -1999. Project title: Nonviolent Rebellion in the Third World.

Research Grant ($750). Awarded by the Rutgers University Research Council, 1998-1999. Project title: Nonviolent Rebellion in the Third World.

Participant in the College and University Faculty Seminar on Conflict and Peacemaking in an Evolving World, 1998, the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.

Summer Fellowship ($4,000). Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities for participation in the Seminar on New Directions in the Comparative Study of Revolution, 1996, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Research Fellowship ($3,000). The Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1995. Project title: A Conjunctural Model of Political Conflict.


INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Nonviolent Action and Struggles for Land: Experiences in India and Brazil.” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. November 22, 2008.

“Nonviolent Action and the Struggle for Land in India and Brazil.” Seventh Annual Kapur Endowment Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. October 1, 2008.
“Struggles to Defend and Reclaim the Commons through Nonviolent Action.” Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop (American Sociological Association), Hempstead, New York. August 10, 2007. 

“Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes.” Ibn Khaldun Center for Development, Cairo, Egypt. May 23, 2007.

“Nonviolent Struggle in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.” Office of International Programs, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. March 28, 2007.

“Unarmed Insurrections and Democratization.” Dialogo Mayor: Accion Politica Noviolenta y Reconciliacion para Avanzar Hacia la Democracia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. November 2, 2006.

“Nonviolent Social Movements and Conflicts over Land and Resources.”  Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Medford, Massachusetts. July 26, 2006. 

“Nonviolent Struggles for Land and Resources in the Global South.” Globalism Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia. May 10, 2006.

“Nonviolent Struggles for Land and Resources in the Global South.” Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. April 4, 2006.

“The State of the Field: Nonviolent Theory and Research for the 21st Century.” Nonviolence Workshop at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. March 17, 2006.

“Misconceptions about Nonviolent Action.” Stanford Summer Fellows Program on Democracy and Development, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Stanford, California. August 11, 2005.

“The Global Emergence of Radical Land Reform Movements.” World Social Forum, Panel on Land Rights. Mumbai, India. January 20, 2004. 

“Misconceptions about Nonviolent Action.” World Summit on the Information Society,
Workshop on Global Media, Nonviolent Power and Democratic Change. Geneva, Switzerland. December 11, 2003. 

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“Nonviolent Struggles for Land and Resource Rights: Popular Movements in Rural India, Thailand, and Brazil.” Biennial Meetings of the International Peace Research Association, Leuven, Belgium. July 18, 2008.

“Struggles to Defend and Reclaim the Commons through Nonviolent Action.” Annual Meetings International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois. March 1, 2007. 

“Nonviolent Struggles to Defend and Reclaim the Commons.” Annual Meetings of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, New York, New York. October 5, 2006. 
“Nonviolent Struggles to Defend and Reclaim the Commons.” Biennial Meetings of the International Peace Research Association. Calgary, Canada.  July 2, 2006. 

“Land Reform Movements in India and Brazil: The Role of Nonviolent Action.” Biennial Meetings of the International Peace Research Association. Sopron, Hungary.  July 7, 2004. 

“Overcoming Constraints and Creating Opportunities: Nonviolent Action and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa.”  Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC. August 16, 2000.

“Social Movements and Democratization in Africa and Asia: A Transnational Perspective.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Illinois. August 6, 1999.

“A Global Analysis of Ethnic Rebellion, 1980-1989.”  Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association.  Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 21, 1998.

“Challenging Corrupt Authoritarian Regimes: Social Protest against the Marcos Regime in the Philippines and the Ne Win Regime in Burma.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Toronto, Canada. August 12, 1997.

“Social Protest in the Philippines and Burma during the 1980s: Revolution and Repression.” Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland, April 13, 1997.

“Contentious Politics and Intra-State Conflict Spirals.” (With J. Craig Jenkins, Charles L. Taylor, and Doug Bond). Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada. March 21, 1997.

"Economic Inequality and Violent Political Conflict: The Moderating Impact of Regime Structure and State Strength."  Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, April 19, 1996.   

“Contours of Struggle: Issues and Prospects for Automated Data Development.” (With Doug Bond, J. Craig Jenkins, and Charles L. Taylor). Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, April 19, 1996.

“Protests and Images: The Cultural Conflict Over the Protest Impact During the Gulf War.” (With Eric Swank). Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.,  August 9, 1995.

“The Origins of Mass Political Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of World Patterns.” Annual  Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 5, 1994.

“Political Opportunity and Political Violence: A Cross-National Analysis.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, Florida, August 14, 1993.

“Political Opportunity Structures: Toward a Comparative Framework.” Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, 1993.


MEDIA APPEARANCES

Radio Interview.  Interviewed on the “Justice, or Just Us?” radio program about my book Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies.  The program was broadcast live by KUCI, a community radio station at the University of California, Irvine. November 1, 2007.

Radio Interview.  Interviewed on the “Late Night Live” radio program about my book Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies.  The program was broadcast live by ABC News Radio nationally in Australia and throughout parts of Asia. April 5, 2006.


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Sociological Association
International Peace Research Association
International Studies Association

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Reviewer
Book Manuscripts: Berghahn Books, 2008; Cambridge University Press, 2001; Edinburgh University Press, 2006; Routledge, 2008.
Textbooks: McGraw Hill, 2003; Wadsworth/Thomson, 1997, 2007.
Article Manuscripts: American Journal of Political Science, 2000; American Journal of Sociology, 1998; American Sociological Review, 1990, 2009; International Studies Quarterly, 1996, 1998, 2007, 2008; Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1997; Journal of Peace Research, 2006, 2007; Peace and Change, 2006; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 2006; Social Problems, 2001, 2005, 2006; Sociological Forum, 1998, 1999; Sociology Compass, 2008.

Research Proposals: Sociology Program of the Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, the National Science Foundation, 1998.

Peer Reviewer of Books for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving the World Order, 2007.
Professional Meetings and Seminars

Organizer and Chair of Panel. “War and Peace by Other Means” for the Section on Peace, War, & Social Conflict.  Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August, 2009.

Chair of Panel. “Nonviolent Action: From Local Civil Resistance to Third-Party Intervention.” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association. New York, NY. February 17, 2009.

Discussant. “Culture and Conflict: Do They Need Each Other?” Symposium, Binghamton University, the State University of New York. Binghamton, NY. April 11, 2008.

Discussant. “Building Nonviolent Politics and Long Term Violence Prevention in Civil Societies.” Biennial Meetings of the International Peace Research Association. Calgary, Canada. June 30, 2006.

Discussant. “Social Movements: Case Studies.” Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, Massachusetts. March 6, 1999.

Panel Organizer and Chair. “Advances in the Global Analysis of Civil Conflict.” Annual Meetings of the International Studies Association. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 21, 1998.

Presider and Discussant. “Challenges to Authoritarian Regimes.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Toronto, Canada. August 12, 1997.

Seminar Organizer. “Globalization and Civil Society: Crises and Conflict.” Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. April 25, 1997.

Discussant. “Reconfiguring Political Process Model.” Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society. Baltimore, Maryland. April 11, 1997.

SERVICE

To the University

Peer Evaluation Committees, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Division of Global Affairs. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2008.

Search Committee for Director of the Division of Global Affairs. Division of Global Affairs. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2005-2006, 2007-2008.

Committee on Courses and Curriculum, Division of Global Affairs. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2005-2006.

Executive Committee of the Graduate Program in Global Affairs. Center for Global Change and Governance. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2000-2006.

Senator. University Senate, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. 2003-2008.

Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. 2003-2008.

Faculty Committee on Courses of Study. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2002-2006.
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2000-2001.

Writing Across the Curriculum Task Force. Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2000.

Faculty Committee on Libraries. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 1997-2000.

Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 1997-1998.

Faculty Search Committee, Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 1997-1998.

To the Discipline and Society

Co-convener of the Nonviolence Commission of the International Peace Research Association. 2008-2010.

Advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), a non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. that promotes the use of civilian-based nonviolent resistance to advance human rights, democracy, and justice worldwide.

•    Advised on training workshops for nonviolent activists, on academic outreach to college and university professors, and on the development of a video simulation tool used for teaching activists how to implement nonviolent action and for teaching students about nonviolent struggle.

•    Gave presentations at workshops organized by the ICNC at the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, Switzerland (2003), Stanford University, Stanford, California (2005), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (2006), and the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development, Cairo, Egypt (2007).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, September 1996 to present.

Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. 2005 to present.

Member of the Graduate Faculty, Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, December 1997 to present.

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. January 1996 through June 1996.

Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. September 1987 through December 1990; September 1992 through December 1992; and September 1994 through December 1995.

Graduate Courses
Seminar on Social Movements and Globalization
(Global Affairs and Political Science Graduate Programs)
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict
(Global Affairs and Political Science Graduate Programs)
Intermediate Statistics
(Criminal Justice Graduate Program)
Honors Courses
Seminar on Social Movements and Globalization

Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Sociology            Political Sociology
Research Methods & Statistics            Social Movements
Social Problems                    Sociology of Peace and Conflict
Social Stratification                Social Change and Globalization


REFERENCES

Jeff Goodwin, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
New York University
295 Lafayette St, 4th Floor
New York, NY  10012         

J. Craig Jenkins, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Political Science
Department of Sociology
Ohio State University
300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH    43210        

David S. Meyer, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Political Science
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA     92697-5100   

Manfred Steger, Ph.D.
Professor of Global Studies
Director, The Globalism Institute
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
Building 37, Level 5, Room 17-B
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia                  

Stephen Zunes, Ph.D.
Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
2130 Fulton Street
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA    94117

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