THOMAS F. MAYER
Curriculum Vita
Office
Address:
Building Number 2 327 UCB
1546 Broadway
Office Phone: 303-492-2138 [IBS]
Office Fax: 303-492-3609 [IBS]
303-492-8878 [Sociology]
Home Address: 918 Juniper
Home Phone: (303) 442-5311
E-Mail Address Thomas.Mayer@Colorado.EDU
Date of Birth: September 27, 1937
Place of
Birth:
Citizenship:
Marital Status: Married Sara Elizabeth Campbell on December 28, 1961
Children: Peter Woodruff Mayer (born May 24, 1964)
Joan Elizabeth Mayer (born May 18, 1968)
Grandchildren Zachary Bennett Mayer-Bickel (born May 25, 1999)
Miles Coby Mayer-Bickel (born June 18, 2002
Education:
School Dates Major Degree
Academic Positions
1. Instructor,
Department of Sociology, University of
2. Assistant
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
3. Associate
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
4. Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of
Total years of experience in academic positions: 42
Books
1. Mathematical Models of Group Structure (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1975)
2. Changes in the State: Causes and Consequences, edited with Ed Greenberg (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1990)
3. War and Its Consequences: Lessons from the Persian Gulf Conflict, edited with John O'Loughlin and Ed Greenberg (New York: Harper Collins, 1994)
4. Analytical Marxism (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994)
5. Class Dynamics: Theory and Applications (in progress)
Refereed Papers: Articles in Professional Journals
1. "Middle Age and Occupational Processes: An Empirical Essay", Sociological Symposium, Fall 1969, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 89-106.
2. "Report on Survey of Mathematical Sciences and Social Sciences", International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1971, Vol. II, pp. 391-392.
3. "Social Mobility Models", Science, April 30, 1971, Vol. 172, pp. 462-463.
4. "Mathematical Sociology: Some Educational and Organizational Problems of an Emergent Sub-Discipline", International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1971, Vol. II, pp. 217-232.
5. Review Essay on Kenneth Boulding, A Primer on Social Dynamics in Behavioral Science, 1973, Vol. 18, pp. 288-293.
6. "Hegel and the State", (with A. Anton, M. Gimenez, and A. Markusen), Kapitalistate, Summer 1976, No. 4-5, pp. 158-185.
7. Review Essay on Rebellion, Revolution and Armed Force by D.E.H. Russell (with B. Mayer), American Sociological Review, September 1976, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 452-458.
8. Review
Essay on Class, Crisis and the State
by Erik Olin Wright (with
9. "Markets and Democracy: A Critique of Charles E. Lindblom", New Political Science, Summer/Fall 1982, No. 9/10, pp. 71-92.
10. Review Essay on The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War by William H. Harris, UMOJA: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies, Vol. VI, No. 1, Summer, 1982, pp. 34-40.
11. "Parties and Networks: Stochastic Models for Relationship Networks", Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 10, 1984, pp. 51-103.
12. "Why Wars End: Some Hypotheses" (with Francis A. Beer), Review of International Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1986, pp. 95-106.
13. "Arms Races and War Initiation: Some Alternatives to the Intriligator-Brito Model", Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 1986, pp. 3-28.
14. "A Unified Analysis of International Conflict and Cooperation" (with Adele G. Platter), Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1989, pp. 367-383.
15. Review essay on Ellen W. Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (formerly entitled "Academic McCarthyism"), Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 158-168.
16. "In Defense of Analytical Marxism", Science and Society, Vol. 53, No. 4, Winter 1989, pp. 416-441.
17. "Comment on Tsebelis's 'Penalty Has No Impact on Crime'", Rationality and Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 1991, pp. 266-268.
18. "Avoiding Nuclear War", Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 17-20.
19. "Reflections on 'The End of History'", Political Geography, Vol. 12, No. 2, January 1993, pp. 79-83.
20. "Six Comments on Rationality", Science and Society, Vol. 57, No. 4, Winter 1993-94, pp. 446-453.
21. “The Critique of Analytical Marxism”, Imprints, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 1998, pp. 79-92.
22. “Dinamica Di Classe: Un Resoconto Provvisorio Non Tecnico” [Italian translation of “Class Dynamics: A Non-Technical Progress Report”], Studi Perugini, Vol. 5, 1998, pp. 121-141.
23. “A New American Left?”, Imprints, Vol. 4, No. 3, Spring 2000, pp. 235-253.
24. “The Collapse of Soviet Communism: A Class Dynamics Interpretation”, Social Forces, Vol. 80, No.3, March 2002, pp.759-812.
25. “On the Nature of Socialism”, accepted for publication in Science and Society but being revised.
26. “Class Dynamics in the United States 1988-2002", currently being revised for re-submission.
27. “Debt Driven Capitalist Accumulation”, revise and resubmit at Review of Radical Political Economics.
28. “The Transformation of American Political Space 1982-2002", currently under review at the Journal of Mathematical Sociology.
29. “Class Types and Class Interactions: A Dynamic Analysis”, currently under review at Sociological Theory.
Refereed Papers: Articles in Edited Collections
1. "The Position and Progress of Black America: Some Pertinent Statistics", (original version) in S.E. Deutsch and J. Howard (eds.), Where It's At: Radical Perspectives in Sociology. (New York: Harper and Row, 1969) pp. 398-411.
2. "The Position and Progress of Black America: Some Pertinent Statistics", (first revised version) in D. Mermelstein (ed.), Economics: Mainstream Readings and Radical Critiques. (New York: Random House, 1970) pp. 197-208.
3. "The Position and Progress of Black America: Some Pertinent Statistics", (second revised version) in H. Gadlin and B. Garskof (eds.), The Uptight Society: A Book of Readings. (Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1970) pp. 102- 116.
4. "Models of Intragenerational Mobility", in Berger et.al. (eds.), Sociological Theories in Progress, Vol.Two. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) pp. 308-357.
5. "Spectral Analysis and the Study of Social Change" (with W.R. Arney), in H. Costner (ed.), Sociological Methodology 1974-75. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1974) pp. 309-355.
6. "Generalized Causal Analysis: Recursive Stationary Case", in R. Ziegler (ed.), Applications of Mathematical Procedures to Analyzing the Status Attainment Process (my translation of a German title). (Kiel, Germany: Institut fur Soziologie der Christian-Albrechts Universitat, 1975) pp. 273-293.
7. "Income
Inequality and Capitalist Development: A Marxist Perspective", (with M.
Gimenez,
8. "Foreword" to Robert A. Johnson, Religious Assortative Marriage in the United States (New York: Academic Press, 1980) pp. xi-xxii (formerly entitled "Religion and the Materialist Method").
9. "Transform Methods and Dynamic Models", in Luterbach and Ward (eds.), Dynamic Models of International Conflict. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Riemer Publishers Inc., 1985) pp. 175-219.
10. "A Structural Analysis of International Conflict and Cooperation" (with Adele G. Platter), Chapter 13 in Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Volume 11. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1988).
11. "Structure
and Consciousness in the Rise of the
12. "Effective Demand and Structural Dependence of the State" (with Tracy Mott), in Greenberg and Mayer (eds.), Changes in the State. (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publishers, 1990), pp. 53-71.
13. "On Marxism", in Henry Etzkowitz and Ronald M. Glassman (eds.), The Renaissance of Sociological Theory: Classical and Contemporary (Itasca, Illinois: F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1991), pp. 99-123.
14. “Analytical Marxism”, in J.B. Davis, D.W. Hands, and U. Mäki (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Methodology (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998), pp. 12-17.
Refereed Papers: Articles in Journals of
Opinion
1. "The
Tragedy of
2. "Imperialism and the Gulf War", Monthly Review, Vol. 42, No. 11, April 1991, pp. 1-11.
3. "Imperialism and the Tyranny of Saddam Hussein", Monthly Review, Vol. 43, No. 6, November 1991, pp. 40-42.
4. "The Meaning of the Communist Experience", Monthly Review, Vol. 43, No. 8, January 1992, pp. 54-60.
Refereed Papers: Brief Reviews
1. Review of Latent Structure Analysis by P.F. Lazarsfeld and N.W. Henry, American Sociological Review, April 1969, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 293-294.
2. Review of Global
Rift by L.S. Stavrianos, MERIP
Reports:
3. Review of Global Rift: The
4. Review of The Emerging Economic Order edited by H.K. Jacobson and S. Sidjanski, and The New International Economy edited by H. Makler, A. Marinelli, and N Smelser; Third World Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1986), pp. 370-373.
5. Review of Social Entropy Theory by Kenneth Bailey, American Journal of Sociology, 1991, pp. 1544-1546.
6. Review of A Future for Socialism by John E. Roemer, American Political Science Review, Vol. 89, No. 2 (June 1995), pp. 489-490.
class=Section4>7. Review of Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality by G.A. Cohen, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Fall 1997), pp. 389-392.
8. Review of Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis by Erik Olin Wright, American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 4, (December 1997), pp. 997-998.
9. Review of Capital Crimes by George Winslow, Science and Society, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 297-300.
10. Review of Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Critical Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 4, (2006), pp. 723-726.
11. Review of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy by Michael D. Yates, Cultural Logic [electronic journal available on line], 2006.
Other Publications
1. Annotated bibliography in J. Berger et. al., Types of Formalization in Small-Group Research. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), pp. 112-159 (with Bruce Finnie).
2. "The
World of the Wobblies: A Review of Joyce Kornbluh's Rebel Voices",
3. "Filtered
Poisson Models of Conflict: Theoretical Exposition",
4. "Birth
and Death Process Models of Social Mobility",
5. "Age and Mobility: Two Approaches to the Problem of Non-stationarity", Michigan Studies in Mathematical Sociology, No. 5, 1968.
6. The Agony of
7. "Employing Mathematical Resources in Sociology", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics News, August 1976, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp.2-3.
8. "Viewing Notes for Behind the Flag: Some Questions and Answers", [with contributions by Arden Buck] (Boulder, Colo.: Educational Media Associates; November, 1991).
Popular Press [selected publications]
1. "Why
the Russians Are Not Coming",
2. "Karl
Marx and Contemporary Marxism",
3. "Intellectual Freedom and the Presidents Letter", Silver and Gold Record, September 1987.
4. "Some Reflections on Academic Inequality", Silver and Gold Record, September 15, 1988.
5. "Books for Freedom", Silver and Gold Record, September 29, 1988.
6. “The Commercialization of
Universities”,
7. “Why the BP Amoco Gift Should Be Rejected”, Colorado Daily, November 16, 2000 [principal author].
8. “Towards a
Culture of Excellence”,
9. “What’s Really Happening in the Department of Sociology”, Boulder Daily Camera, June 24, 2001 [with Kris DeWelde, Marci Eads, Robyn Marschke, Bill Rocque, and Garian Vigil].
10. “Poverty, Democracy, and the World Bank”, Boulder Daily Camera, July ?, 2001 [principal author].
11. “An
Appropriate Response”,
12. “Response
to Stan Yokell”,
13. “The
Meaning of Vulnerability”,
14. “A Critique of the Investigative Committee Report on Ward Churchill”, Silver & Gold Record, June 2006.
Electronic Journal Publications
1. “An Invitation to Communicate”, Pleas and Provocations [www.Colorado.EDU/FacultyGovernance/JOURNAL/], September 2001.
2. “Arguing for Diversity”, Pleas and Provocations, October 2001.
3. “The Enemies of Excellence”, Pleas and Provocations, October 2001.
4. “The Role of Universities in Times of Crisis”, Pleas and Provocations, November 2001.
5. “Recession and Structure”, Pleas and Provocations, December 2001.
6. “My Hope
for a
7. Website on Contemporary Sociological Theory, August 2003
http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/SOCY3011.
8. Website on Race and Ethnic Relations, January 2004.
http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/SOCY1015.
Selected Unpublished Papers (available on request)
1. "Multi-Class Markov Models and the Rank Criterion", October 1968.
2. "Information Theory and the Prediction of Social Mobility", April 1970.
3. "Information Theory and the Analysis of Causation", July 1970.
4. "Imperialism and American Class Structure", October 1973.
5. "What is Class Consciousness: An Essay in Marxist Analysis", (with Ed Greenberg), November 1978.
6. "Soviet Military Policy: A Historical and Strategic Interpretation", May 1980.
7. "Soviet Imperialism: Some Observations and Conjectures", October 1980.
8. "The
Class Structure of College Towns", (with R. Hanson and
9. "Integration and Causation: A New Approach to Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences", January 1985.
10. "Integration and Causation: Multivariate Case", July 1985.
11. "Al
Szymanski on the
12. "Images of the Enemy and the Initiation of Nuclear War", October 1986.
13. "Towards a Marxist Understanding of World War Two", October 1987.
14. "The Marxism of John Roemer", November 1988.
15. “Class Dynamics: Linear and Quasi-Linear Examples”, June 1996.
16. “Reflections on the Failure of State Socialism”, June 2000.
17. Review of The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy by Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn, June 2001.
18. “Measuring
Class Power in the
Selected Plays and Dramatic
1. "The Trial of Gilbert and Anne White", June 1977.
2. "Passover Service", second edition (with B. Mayer), October 1977.
3. "Scenes from the Revolution", February 1978.
4. "A Struggle of Angels", October 1978.
5. "A Prize for Mr. Boulding", January 1980.
6. "Rocky Flats: A Nuclear Opera", March 1980.
7. "Outside Chairperson", December 1980.
8. "An Inauguration Day Parable", January 1981.
9. "The Inner World of Carol Joyce", October 1981.
10. "A Matter of Tenure", January 1983.
11. "An Anniversary Play", November 1983.
12. "Post Tenure Review", January 1984.
13. "An Organ of Power", April 1984
14. "An Ordinary Person" [In Memory of Anne White], April 1989.
15. "1939 Revised", November 1989.
16. "Advice from Captain Jim", May 1991.
17. "Don Quixote: In Memory of a Dear Friend" [In Memory of Kenneth Boulding], March 1993.
class=Section6>18. "Arranged Marriage: Part One" [Celebrating the wedding of Amanda Bickel and Peter Mayer], June 1993.
19. “Arranged Marriage: Part Two” [Celebrating the wedding of Amanda Bickel and Peter Mayer], July 1993.
20. “Matrimizing” [Celebrating the marriage of Susan Carabello and Chet Tchozewski], August 1995.
21. “Message in a Bottle: A Fable of Arsen and Emily” [Celebrating the wedding of Emily Cosmos and Arsen Kashkashian], August 2001 [with Peter Mayer].
22. “GW” [A poem for the 90th birthday of Gilbert White], November 2001.
23. “Dennis and Durkheim” [A friendly roast on Dennis Mileti], December 2002.
24. “A Gay Marriage Parable” [Celebrating the wedding of Melanie Hope and Joanie Mayer], July 2004 [with Peter Mayer].
25 “Gilbert Was One” [A poem in memory of Gilbert White], November 2006.
Television Work
1. “Multiversity:
Race and Class in
Research Grants Received
1. Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan (Grants #13400 and #08476), Social Status and Social Influence ($5,000) with J.C. Moore.
2. Office of Education Grant (OEC-8-70-0203(508)), Studies in the Theory of Large Groups ($45,803) with W.N. McPhee, J.D. Bramsen, R.C. Hansen, and P. Jobes.
3. National Science Foundation Grant (No. GS-31913), Spectral Theory and the Analysis of Social Change ($40,100), principal investigator Thomas F. Mayer, January 1972-June 1974.
4.
5. National Science Foundation Graduate Training Program Grant, Globalization and Democracy ($562, 500), 1995-2000. [Participating scholar, not PI or co-PI]
Papers Presented at Scholarly Meetings
1. "Age
and Occupational Mobility", presented at the 1968 meetings of the American
Sociological Association in
2. Invited
participant at the National Academy of Sciences-National Academy of Education
Joint Research Workshop on Sociological
Theory and Research in Education,
3. Invited
speaker at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Conference on the Application of Mathematics to Social Affairs,
4. "Imperialism
and the American Class Structure", presented at the 1973 annual meetings
of the International Studies Association in
5. Organizer and chief discussant of the Mathematical Sociology Session at the September 1973 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.
6. Main
speaker at Workshop on Spectral Analysis
in the Social Sciences, University of
7. Chief lecturer at the Special Seminar on Time Series Analysis, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, March 3-22, 1975.
8. Invited
speaker and consultant on time series analysis at the Workshop on Analyzing Sequential Infant Interaction Data,
9. "Inequality and Capitalist Development" (with E. Greenberg) presented at an international Conference on Economic Development and Income Distribution, Estes Park, Colo., 1976 and sponsored by the Institute of Behavioral Science.
10. "Parties
and Networks", an invited paper presented at the Mathematical Social
Board, Advanced Research Symposium on Stochastic
Process Models of Social Structure,
11. Co-organizer
and paper presenter (with E. Greenberg) of an international Conference on Class Consciousness,
12. "Marxism
and Empirical Research" (with Bob Hanson), presented at the 1983 meetings
of the American Sociological Association in
13. "Transform
Methods and Dynamic Models", an invited paper presented at the Joint Seminar on Dynamic Approaches to
Modeling International Conflict,
14. "Arms
Races and War Initiation", presented at the 1985 meetings of the American
Sociological Association in
15. "Images
of the Enemy and the Initiation of Nuclear War", presented at the 1986
meetings of the American Sociological Association in
16. Co-organizer
(with Ed Greenberg) and paper presenter at an international Conference on Changes in the State held
in May 1987 at the
17. "Structural
Analysis of International Conflict and Cooperation" (with Adele G.
Platter), presented at the 1987 meetings of the American Sociological
Association in
18. "In
Defense of Analytical Marxism", presented at the August 1989 meetings of
the American Sociological Association in
19. Co-organizer
(with Ed Greenberg and John O'Loughlin) of an international Conference on Long Range Consequences of the
Persian Gulf War held in October 1992 at the
20. “Class
Dynamics and Globalization: Theoretical Explorations”, presented at conference
on Globalization
and Its Discontents,
21. “Class
Dynamics: A Non-Technical Progress Report”, presented at the August 1998
meetings of the American Sociological Association in
22 Towards a Theory of Class Dynamics [two lectures and a seminar given at the Gene Havens Center in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison]: “Principles of Class Dynamics”, Nov. 8, 1999; “Applications of Class Dynamics”, Nov. 10, 1999; “Problems of Dynamic Analysis”, Nov. 11, 1999.
23. “Measuring
Class Power in the
24. “Class
Dynamics in the United States 1988-2002",
presented at the April 2003 meetings of the Southwestern Social Science
Association in
25. Organizer
of and discussant in “Symposium on White Privilege”, December 2006,
26. Organizer of and discussant in conference on “New Directions in the Study of Race and Ethnicity”, April 22, 2006.
Editorial Responsibilities
1. Founder and Editor, Pleas and Provocations [electronic journal sponsored by the Boulder Faculty Assembly, www.Colorado.EDU/FacultyGovernance/JOURNAL/], August 2001-June 2003.
Prizes and Honors
1. Social Problems Award in Sociology, 1960.
2. Bobbs-Merrill Award in Sociology, 1962.
3. Dean's Committee on Social Science Writing Award, 1990.
4. Chancellor’s Award for Equity and Excellence, 2002
5. Department of Sociology Award for Mentoring Graduate Students, 2006
University and Community Service
(Principal Administrative Responsibilities)
1. Chairperson, Committee on Mathematical Sociology, University of Michigan, 1965-69.
2. Project
Director, Program of Research on Social Processes,
3. Secretary,
Faculty Council Committee on University Women, University of
4. Board
Member,
5. Secretary,
American Friends Service Committee (Rocky Mountain Division),
6. Chairperson,
Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology,
7. Chairperson,
8. Organizer,
Seminars on Political and Economic Change,
9. Member of Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 1985-87, 2001-2002.
10. Acting
Chairperson, Department of Sociology,
11. Chairperson, Conflict Studies Concentration, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 1987-1990.
12. Coordinator, CU Faculty for Social Responsibility, University of Colorado, 1988-1991.
13. Acting
Chairperson, Department of Sociology,
14. Member of
Committee on Privilege and Tenure, Faculty Senate, University of
15. Diversity
Coordinator, Department of Sociology, University of
16. Co-coordinator
(with Jim Downton), Graduate Student Support Group, Department of Sociology,
17. Sociology
Representative, Human Research Committee,
18. Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 2001-2003.
19. Chairperson, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 2001-2003.
References (in alphabetical order)
Joseph Berger, Department of Sociology,
James Downton, Department of Sociology,
William Gamson, Department of Sociology,
Richard Jessor,
Gary Marx, Department of Sociology,
John Roemer, Department of Economics,
Erik Olin Wright, Department of Sociology,