Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.[1] He was President of the British Sociological Association 1995–97. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review. Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a professor of sociology at the Open University.[3] Hall retired from the Open University in 1997 and was a Professor Emeritus.[4] British newspaper The Observer called him "one of the country's leading cultural theorists".[5] He was married to Catherine Hall, a feminist professor of modern British history at University College London. After working on the Universities and Left Review during his time at Oxford, Hall joined E. (1960). (1971).
Greg Grandin Greg Grandin (born 1962, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian, and professor of history at New York University.[1] He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award[2] and a National Book Critics Circle Award.[3] A more recent book is entitled Who Is Rigoberta Menchú? and focuses on the treatment of the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the media. Fordlandia was named a best book of the year by The New York Times,[4] The New Yorker;[5] NPR;[6] The Boston Globe;[7] San Francisco Chronicle;[8] and the Chicago Tribune.[9] Life[edit] He graduated from Brooklyn College with a BA, from CUNY, and from Yale University with a PhD. He won the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Award for the best book published in any discipline on Latin America for Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.
Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925) is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Bauman is one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity. Biography According to the Institute of National Remembrance, from 1945 to 1953 Bauman was a political officer in the Internal Security Corps (KBW),[1] a military unit formed to combat Ukrainian nationalist insurgents and part of the remnants of the Polish Home Army . Further Bauman worked as an informer for the Military Intelligence from 1945 to 1948. In an interview in The Guardian, Bauman confirmed that he had been a committed communist during and after World War II and had never made a secret of it. Work Early work Modernity and rationality Awards and honours
Paul Gilroy Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is a Professor at King's College London. Biography[edit] Gilroy taught at South Bank University, Essex University, and then Goldsmiths College for many years before leaving London to take up a tenured post at Yale University, where he was the chair of the Department of African American Studies and Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. He was the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics before he joined King's College London in September 2012. Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the Black Atlantic diaspora, as a commentator on the politics of race, nation and racism in the UK, and as an archaeologist of the literary and cultural lives of blacks in the western hemisphere. Gilroy's theories of race, racism and culture were influential in shaping the cultural and political movement of black British people during the 1990s.
Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (French: [bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85). His reputation stems in part from his writings, but even more from his success in making the Annales School the most important engine of historical research in France and much of the world after 1950. As the dominant leader of the Annales School of historiography in the 1950s and 1960s, he exerted enormous influence on historical writing in France and other countries. Braudel has been considered one of the greatest of the modern historians who have emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history.[1] He can also be considered as one of the precursors of world-systems theory. Biography[edit] Braudel returned to Paris in 1937. Capitalism[edit]
Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.[2] Her research interests are in feminism, African-American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. Early life[edit] Davis attended Carrie A. Education[edit]
Raymond Williams Life[edit] Early life[edit] Born in Llanfihangel Crucorney, near Abergavenny, Wales, Williams was the son of a railway worker in a village where all of the railwaymen voted Labour while the local small farmers mostly voted Liberal.[2] It was not a Welsh-speaking area: he described it as "Anglicised in the 1840s".[3] There was, nevertheless, a strong Welsh identity. "There is the joke that someone says his family came over with the Normans and we reply: 'Are you liking it here?'".[4] He attended King Henry VIII Grammar School in Abergavenny. University education[edit] Williams attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. World War II[edit] Adult education[edit] Early publications[edit] He made his reputation with Culture and Society, published in 1958, which was an immediate success. Academic career[edit] On the strength of his books, Williams was invited to return to Cambridge in 1961,[13] eventually becoming Professor of Drama there (1974–1983).
Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier approach to history from the far left, in the 1950s he embraced consensus history, becoming the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus", largely because of his emphasis on ideas and political culture rather than the day-to-day doings of politicians. His influence is ongoing, as modern critics profess admiration for the grace of his writing, and the depth of his insight.[1] Early life and radical views[edit] Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1916, to a Jewish father, Emil A. From 1934 to 1939 Hofstadter was active in left-wing groups, including a leadership role in the Young Communist League and (in 1938–39) a member of the Communist Party. Consensus historian[edit] Later works[edit] The rural ethos[edit] Irrational fear[edit] C.