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Faculty:
Paul Joseph |
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 Paul
Joseph
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. University of California at Berkley, M.A.
University of California at Berkley, B.A. McGill
University
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Office phone: 617-627-2470
Expertise:
Sociology of War and Peace; Political Sociology; Globalization
Biography and Interests:
Paul Joseph was most recently the
Distinguished Chair for the United States-India Education Foundation (Fulbright
program) and based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is a
political sociologist with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
(1975). His research specialty is the politics surrounding foreign and defense
policy, and especially the impact of public opinion and peace movements on
policy outcomes. His books include a decision-making study on the Vietnam War,
the debate over nuclear policy, and the security implications of the end of the
Cold War. His last title, "Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful?" explores
the influence of new public sensitivities toward the costs of war on the Bush
administration's management of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has also published
articles, review essays, and encyclopedia entries on race and class in the
United States, on Maori-Pakeha (European) relations in New Zealand, the memory
politics surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the influence of peace
movements on government policies. His current project is an investigation of
"Human Terrain Teams," social scientists who are embedded in combat brigades in
Iraq and Afghanistan. He was for many years the director of the Peace and
Justice Studies Program at Tufts University, and served two terms as president
of the national Peace Studies Association. He has lectured in more than a dozen
countries, served as guest curator for a Tufts Art Gallery exhibition based on
the materials provided by peace museums in Japan, and experimented with video
conferencing technology to develop co-curriculum with the Naval Academy and West
Point. His teaching interests include war and peace, globalization, and
political sociology, and he was recognized by Tufts University with the Lillian
Liebner Award for Teaching and Guidance. He enjoys travel, sports, cooking, and
the outdoors.
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