Michael Schwartz (sociologist)

Michael H. Schwartz
Born (1942-05-09) May 9, 1942 (age 82)[3]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1964)
Harvard University (Ph.D. 1971)[3]
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsState University of New York at Stony Brook
ThesisThe Southern Farmers' Alliance: The Organizational Forms of Radical Protest (1971[2])
Doctoral advisorHarrison White
Doctoral studentsKenneth Andrews, Dan Clawson, Mark Mizruchi,[1]

Michael Herman Schwartz (born May 9, 1942) is an American sociologist and prominent critic of the Iraq war. He is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York, where he also serves as faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies and Chair of the Sociology Department. Schwartz has written extensively in the areas of economic sociology and social movements.

  1. ^ Mizruchi, Mark (1980). The structure of the American corporate network: 1904-1974 (PhD). p. ii. OCLC 7297026. ProQuest 303081789.
  2. ^ Schwartz, Michael Herman (1971). The Southern Farmers' Alliance: The organizational forms of radical protest (PhD). Harvard University. OCLC 3257607. ProQuest 302462395.
  3. ^ a b "Michael Schwartz". Who's Who in America (70 ed.). Berkeley Heights, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 2016.