Dan Brook
Department of Sociology,
e-mail: brook@brook.com / tel:
408-924-5331 / fax: 484-924-5597
EDUCATION
University
of California, Davis, Davis, California
Ph.D. in Sociology, June 1997
M.A. in Sociology, December 1995
Honors: UC Davis
Fellowship - 1996 - 1997
Department
of Sociology Travel Grant - 1996
GSA Travel Grant - 1996
San
Francisco State University, San
Francisco, California
M.A. in Political Science,
May 1992
Honors: Graduate Student Award for Distinguished
Achievement - 1992
Johnson / Kolb Scholarship for Students
with Disabilities - 1992
Jenkins Scholarship for Academic Excellence
and Political Action - 1992
Wasserman Prize for Best Paper by a
Graduate Student - 1991
Clark
University, Worcester, Massachusetts
B.A. in
Socio-Political Economy, May 1988
Senior Thesis: The
Political Economy of Development in Mexico
Honors: Arista Honor
Society - 1988
Instructor, San Jose State University, Spring 1997, Spring 2005 - date
Instructor for courses in: Introduction to Sociology; Social Problems;
Globalization; Political Sociology; War and Violence; Cities; and Writing.
Advisor
for Service Learning Projects.
Instructor, Cañada College,
Fall 2008
Instructor for a
course in Introduction to Sociology.
Instructor, City College of San Francisco,
Fall 1994, Spring 2008
Co-Instructor for a course in Political Action; Instructor for courses
in American Politics.
Instructor, Santa Clara University, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Instructor for courses in Social Problems; Advisor for
Service Learning Projects.
Lecturer, University of California at
Berkeley, Fall 2001 – Summer 2004
Instructor for
courses in: Environmental Sociology; Sociology of Work; Organizations;
Sociology
of Education; Urban Sociology; and Social Change. Advisor for:
Service
Learning Projects; Independent Studies; and Senior Theses. Supervisor
of graduate student assistants.
Lecturer, University of California, Davis,
Fall 1997 - Summer 2001
Instructor
for courses in: Social Problems; Social Stratification; Political Sociology;
Corporations
&
Society; Social Movements; Welfare; People, Work, & Technology;
Occupations; Community Organizing;
and the
Internship and Research Practicum. Advisor for: Independent Study courses;
Honors
Programs;
internships; service learning; and a student organization. Supervisor of
assistants.
Instructor, San Francisco State University,
Fall 1991 - Summer 1992, Spring 1997, Spring 2001
Instructor for courses in: Cities in Global Society and Environmental
Sociology. Co-Instructor
for three courses in American Politics. Supervisor of assistant.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis,
Spring 1994 - Spring 1996
Teaching Assistant for: Corporations & Society; Social Inequality; Complex Organizations;
American Society; Social Welfare; and Collective Behavior.
Instructor, California State University
Hayward (
Co-Instructor
for a course in American Politics.
Research Assistant, Institute for Food and Development
Policy, Summer 1992
Conducted research on
the environmental effects of North American free trade.
Research Assistant and Reader, University of
California at Berkeley, Spring 1992
Engaged in research and graded research papers for a course in the
History of Mexico.
Assistant Head Teacher, Child Study
Center, San Francisco, 1990 - 1991
Teacher of preschool children and supervisor of college interns in a
multicultural, observational setting.
Teacher, ELS International, Bangkok, Thailand, 1989 - 1990
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language to Thai people of various ages
and professions.
Teacher, Public School 225, Brooklyn, New
York, 1988 - 1989
Teacher of English as
a Second Language to recent immigrant children.
Teaching Assistant, Clark University, Spring 1988
Leader of weekly group discussions that supplemented course work in classical sociological theory.
Editor,
John D. Blydenburgh, Worcester, Massachusetts, Spring 1988
Editor of interviews for a social research project.
BOOKS
Che Forever (Smashwords,
2009)
An Alef-Bet Kabalah (Smashwords, 2009)
Understanding
Sociology, 3rd ed. (
Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural
Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China
(
ARTICLES
“The
Vegetarian Mitzvah”, Tikkun,
July/August 2009
“Another Chanukah
Miracle”, The Gantseh Megillah, December 2008 (co-authored). Earlier versions
are published as “Another
Miracle of Chanukah”,
Tikkun, December 2005 and as “Moving Toward
a New Miracle of Chanukah”, New
Jersey Jewish News,
“Courage, Cowardice, &
John McCain” [review of John McCain’s Why Courage
Matters], CommonDreams,
An earlier version was published as “The Courage To Be Courageous”, Dissident Voice,
“Ten Commandments Regarding Animals”, Vegetarian News, Winter
2008. Expanded and published on All-Creatures.org,
“Oil
Wars: Fueling Both U.S. Empire and Ecocide”, Dissident Voice,
“Oil War: Fueling the Empire”, CounterPunch,
and also published as “Oil
Wars: Fueling the Empire”, Political
Affairs, Fall 2004 (special issue)
“New Element Discovered:
Capitalisium”, Monthly Review Zine,
“Cesar Chávez and
Comprehensive Rights”, ZNet,
30 May 2007. Republished in The Island Vegetarian,
July-September 2007.
“The
Warming Globe and Us: It’s More Than CO2”, Dissident Voice,
Republished as “Global Warming
is the Problem, Vegetarianism is the Solution” in SAFE
Magazine, Fall/Winter 2007
and as “Another Inconvenient Truth” in Animals Voice, Fall 2007.
“Making
Poverty History” [review of Scott
Myers-Lipton’s Social
Solutions to Poverty], CounterPunch,
“Don’t
Have A Cow: It Will Help in Fight Against Global Warming”, JTA,
Republished under
different titles in various media.
“Listening for a
(Social) Change”, Political
Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 10, November 2006. A different version
is
published as “Open Our
Ears: Listening for a Change”, Jewish
Magazine, No. 90, May 2005
“Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is
a Global Warming Issue”, E Magazine
commentary,
A shorter version is published as “Meat is a Global Warming Issue”,
AlterNet,
“Lag B’Omer &
Vegetarianism: Making Every Day Count”, The Jewish
Voice, June 2006 (co-authored)
“Review”
of William
Blum’s Rogue State, 3rd Ed., Tikkun, April
2006
“The Politics of Insurgency”, Political Affairs, Vol. 85, No.
3, March 2006.
Published online as “A Politics of Politics:
Routine and Insurgent Tactics”.
“Praxis
Journal” in Peter Kaufman,
ed., Critical
Pedagogy in Sociology
(Washington, D.C.:
American Sociological Association, 2002,
2006)
“Eco-Eating: Eating as if
the Earth Matters”, Vegetarians in
Paradise, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 2005.
A
previous version is published as “Healthy
Eating, Healthy Environment”, Laptop Lunch Times, October 2004
“Tsunamis”,
Political Affairs, Vol. 84,
No. 4, April 2005
“Dreaming
Reality in Sukhothai”, The
Nation (
“The Next Generation”, Nonviolent
Activist, September-October 2004
“Nader and the Nadir of
Democracy?”, Dissident Voice,
“Bombing
Baghdad by the Bay?”, From the Left (ASA section newsletter), Vol. 24,
No. 2, Spring/Summer 2003.
An abbreviated version is published as “A
Call for Empathy: Rethink Pre-emptive Bush Doctrine”,
Berkeley
Daily Planet, Weekend Edition,
4-7 April 2003
“Shocking and Awful”,
Online Journal of Public Theology,
“Mass Rally,
Sort Of”, CounterPunch,
“Celebrating
Genocide!”, CounterPunch,
La Voz del Pueblo Taino (The Voice of the
Taino People),
Vol. 5, Issue 4,
October-December 2002, as “Thanksgiving
- Celebrating Genocide”,
Guerrilla Funk
Recordings,
ZNet, Spanish Section,
February 2001 and into Korean as “Thanksgiving
Day”, 2002.
“An Open Letter to Barbara Lee”,
CounterPunch,
“Human
Education Should Be Humanistic: A Progressive Philosophy of Teaching”, The
Sociology Shop, July 2002
“Judi Bari and the FBI”, ZNet,
27 May 2002. Republished in Fifth
Estate, Vol 37, No. 2 (357), Summer 2002.
“Questions of Liberty”,
Common Dreams,
“Israel, Palestine, &
Justice”, Common Dreams,
in AlterNet,
Metroland,
“Seeking and
Speaking the Truth” [review of William Blum’s Rogue Nation], Socialism and Democracy,
Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2002
“The Ongoing Tragedy of the
Commons”, Social
Science Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4, November 2001
“Democracy
and Its Discontents”, Socialist Review, Vol. 28, No. 3-4, Fall 2001.
Revised and republished from “Theses on Democrats”, Today in Perspective,
Vol. 2, Issue 3, January 1997.
“Review” of History as Mystery
by Michael Parenti,
Critical
Sociology, Vol. 27,
No. 2, Summer 2001. Also
published as “Resolving
the Mystery of History”,
Z Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3, March 2001
and as “Unraveling
the Mystery of History”,
Jewish Currents, Vol. 54, No. 3, March
2001.
“The Continuum of
Collective Action”, Peace Review, Vol.
13, No. 2 June 2001.
Revised and republished from
the Collective Behavior and Social
Movements
Working Paper Series, Vol. 3,
No. 1, 2000.
“A Note on the
Journal (for courses with a service-learning component)” in Glenn A.
Goodwin and Martin D.
Schwartz, eds., ‘Professing’
Humanist Sociology, 4th ed.
(Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2000)
“Deadly Humanitarianism”,
From the Left (ASA section newsletter), Vol. 23, No. 2-3,
Spring/Summer 1999
“Revolutionary Rehearsal and the Case(s) of
and Social Movements Working Paper Series, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1999
“Environmental
Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste”, American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1998
“Assassination, Banks, and
“Democratic Daydreams and Communist Party Nightmares”, Chinese Community
Forum, #9707,
“Comparisons of Coercion, Consent, and Change in
Forum, #9703,
“The Beijing Spring and Beyond: Modern Revolution in
and Mike Tyldesley,
eds., Alternative
Futures and Popular Protest II (Manchester:
Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996)
“The History of Labor and the Labor of History”, Comparative
& Historical Sociology
(ASA section newsletter),
Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1996
“The
Great Transformation—Its Relevance Continues”, American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, Vol. 53, No. 4, October 1994
“Review”
of EcoPopulism by Andrew Szasz,
Journal of
Political Ecology, Vol. 1, 1994.
Revised and republished as “Everyone’s Backyard”,
Boston Book Review,
Vol. 2,
No. 4, April 1995.
“Toxic Trade”, Z Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 9,
September 1992. Revised and republished as
“
(Greenhaven Press, 1994)
“What is Good?”, Contradictions, Vol. 1, No. 2,
1986
“Justice, justice” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, January-February
2009
“San Jose,
California: Vegetarian Vietnamese Valley of Heart’s Delight” [article &
photographs], VegDining.com
“
“personal papers” [haibun (short story ending with a haiku)], contemporary haibun
online, September 2008
“Rabbis” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents,
September-October 2008
“deep
relaxation” [haiku], Frogpond, Fall 2008
“The Harvest”
[photograph], Nancy Cary, ed. Hunger and Thirst (Sunbelt Publications,
2008)
“Kyoto,
Japan: New Treats in an Ancient Capital” [article & photographs], VegDining.com
“Chiang
Mai, Thailand: J is for Vegetarian” [article & photographs], VegDining.com
“Luang Prabang, Laos: Vegetarian Gem of the Mekong” [article & photographs], VegDining.com
“Buddha
Tree” [photograph], 2008 SJSU Global Studies Calendar (May)
“Sparkling San Francisco: A Jewel in the California Crown” [article & photographs], VegDining.com
“
“Real
Social Security” [graphic], San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8-14 August
2007.
An earlier and different version is published in Journal
of Creative Social Discourse, Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1997
“Rosa Parks” [poetry], Political
Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 5, May 2007
“Political Sociology” [syllabus], Sarah Sobieraj, ed., Political
Sociology: Syllabi and Instructional Materials
(
“Arboretum” [haiku
sequence], Poems-For-All,
“Haiku Definition”,
haikupoet.com (including an index of haiku definitions)
“The Colors of War” [poem] in Jason Carpenter, Rekha Bala, and Ilana Urnansky, eds.,
Vanguard in the Belly of the Beast: Voices
and Images of Protest (
“Sociological
Snippets”, The Sociology Shop. Also posted on Dear Habermas:
A
Journal of Postmodern and Critical Thought, Vol. 16, No. 3, 24 Feb-3
March 2003.
“A Year of Spring” [and other poems], Poets Against War
“Meatless
in Mexico City”, Vegetarian Journal,
Vol. 15, No. 1, January/February 1996.
Translated into Spanish
by Tais Thompson and republished as “Cena
Vegetariana en la Ciudad de México”
on
the International Vegetarian Union Web Site
(undated).
GUEST LECTURES &
INTERVIEWS
“Eating for
Personal, Public, and Planetary Health”, World Veg Festival,
“Social Causes and
Higher Social Costs of Rising Food Prices”, Wellness Central,
Interview [“Thanksgiving”], KPFK (90.7 FM),
“Eating as if the Earth Matters”, World Veg Festival,
“Factory Farms and Slaughterhouses
as Sweatshops”, San Jose State University,
“A Sociology of Sustainable
Development”, University of Oregon,
“Eating as if the Earth Matters”, University of Oregon,
Interview, KOPT (1600 AM),
Interview,
KBOO (Inform Productions),
Interview,
Wake Up America,
Perspective [“Meat and Global Warming”], KQED (88.5 FM),
Rebroadcast on the H2O Podcast
(Vegan-Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment).
“Facing
the Facts about Food”, San Jose State University,
“Social Stratification”, College of San
Mateo,
Interview [“The Meat of Global Warming”], WHUS (91.7 FM),
“Think Globally, Eat
Locally”, San Jose State University,
“Hegemony”, San Francisco State University,
“Philosophy and Practice”, University
of California at Berkeley, 14 May 2003
Interview [“
Interview [“Conference Against
Racism”], KPFA (94.1 FM), Berkeley, California,
Interview [“Electoral and
Everyday Democracy”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis, California,
“Considering Chinese Communism”, University of California, Davis,
Interview [“Corporations & Globalization”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis,
California,
Interview [“Environmental Justice”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis,
California,
“Global Stratification: Causes, Consequences, and
Constructive Criticism”,
California
State University Hayward,
Interview [“Political Forum”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis,
California,
“Elements of Environmental Sociology”, California State University Fresno,
“Political Leadership in Cultural Context”, University of Richmond,
“Philosophies of Methodologies in Social Research”, San Francisco State University,
“Doing Social Research: Modern Revolution in
Paper presented at the 91st
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association
on Social Change:
Opportunities & Constraints, New York,
New York, 16-20 August 1996
“The (Re)Production of Velvet: On the Dynamics of
Czechoslovakia’s Modern
Revolution”, Paper presented
at the Second Regional Conference on
Russian, East European, and Central
Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington,
“The Beijing Spring
and Beyond: Modern Revolution in China”,
Paper presented
at the Second International Conference
on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest,
Manchester, England,
26-28 March 1996
“Capitalism and Democracy”, City College of San Francisco, Spring 1995
“All Politics is Local: California
Government and Politics”, California State
University Hayward (
“The Political Economy of Development in
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Member, Parkmerced
Sustainability Committee, 2007 - present
Staff Photographer, Green Festival (San Francisco),
2007 - 2008
Member,
Member,
Volunteer, Rooftop
Alternative School Library, 2006 - 2007
Alumni Interviewer, Clark
University, 2002 - present
Author, “It’s Eco-Logical”, Lakeshore
Elementary School Newsletter, 2002 – 2006
Grader for Graduate Record
Examinations, Educational Testing Service,
2002 – 2004
Trained Community Mediator, Community Boards, San Francisco, October 2001 - present
Parent-Teacher, Playmates Cooperative Preschool,
2000 - 2001
Referee, American
Journal of Economics and Sociology and Critical
Sociology, 1999 - present
Faculty Advisor,
Member, Socialist Review Editorial Collective,
1998 - 2001
Freelance Editor, McGraw-Hill,
Pine Forge Press, and W.W. Norton, 1997 - present
Member, Board of Directors of Or Shalom Jewish Community, 1995 - 1996
Copyeditor and proofreader, Or
Shalom, 1995 - 1996
Participant, Essential Information’s Summer
Institute on Teaching Activism
(with
Ralph Nader, Lois Gibbs, Howard Zinn, and others),
1994
Staff
Photographer, Pastiche (Clark University
Yearbook), 1986 - 1988
PERSONAL
Daniel Brook
