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Jack Nusan Porter is an American writer, sociologist, human rights and social activist, and former treasurer and vice-president of the

predict genocide
and terrorism, and modes of resistance to genocide. His most recent books are Is Sociology Dead?, Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age, The Genocidal Mind, The Jew as Outsider, and Confronting History and Holocaust.

Early life and education

Nusia Jakub Puchtik was born December 2, 1944, in

Rovno, Ukraine
to Jewish-Ukrainian partisan parents Faljga Merin and Srulik Puchtik. The family emigrated to the United States on June 20, 1946, and their name was Anglicized to Porter.

Growing up in

Michael Lerner
’s Tikkun movement.

Career

In 1976, Porter founded the Journal of the History of Sociology; it published its first issue in 1978.[1]

In the spring of 2012, Porter ran for

Joseph Kennedy III won the primary with approximately 90% of the vote and was later elected to his first term in Congress in the 2012 general election.[3]

Selected works

Porter's books include: add The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter (Academic Studies Press, 2020); Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II (in Russian and English, Academic Studies Press, 2022); Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany: The Persecution of the Homosexuals and Lesbians During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 2011, 2023); Can Mathematical Models Predict Genocide? (The Spencer Press, 2022); Can Mathematical Models Predict Terrorist Acts?, with Trevor Jones, (Academic Studies Press, 2022); The Wit and Wisdom of Erich Goldhagen on Hitler, Nazism, the Holocaust and Other Genocides (The Spencer Press, 2023); If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son (Academic Studies Press, 2023); L'Matara (For the Purpose): Jewish Partisan Poetry and Prose from the DP Camps of Europe (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973 and based on his sociology Ph.D. dissertation from Northwestern University, June 1971)[4]

  • Jewish Radicalism with Peter Dreier (Grove Press, 1973)[5]
  • The Sociology of American Jews (University Press of America, 1978, 1980)[6]
  • The Jew as Outsider (University Press of America, 1981; The Spencer Press, 2014)[7][8]
  • Jewish Partisans: A documentary of Jewish resistance in the Soviet Union during World War II (University Press of America, 1982; The Spencer Press, 2013)[9]
  • Conflict and Conflict Resolution: An Historical Bibliography (Garland Publishing, 1982)[10]
  • Genocide and Human Rights: A Global Anthology (University Press of America, 1982)[11]
  • Confronting history and Holocaust (University Press of America, 1983; new edition with bibliography of Porter's works, The Spencer Press, 2014)[7]
  • Sexual politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the Homosexuals During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 1991, with
    Rudiger Lautmann and Erhard Vismar; 20th Anniversary edition, The Spencer Press, 2011)[12]
  • The Sociology of Genocide: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)[12]
  • The Sociology of Jewry: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)[12]
  • Women in Chains: On the Agunah (Jason Aronson, 1995)[13]
  • The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspctives (University Press of America, 2006)[14]
  • Is Sociology Dead? Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age (University Press of America, 2008)[15]

Awards

  • 2004: Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology for his founding of the Journal of the History of Sociology, 1977-1982. He shared the award with Glenn Jacobs and Alan Sica.[16]
  • 2009 The Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict (for his work in genocide and Holocaust studies).[17]

References

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  2. ^ McGrath, Ben (April 9, 2012). "The Campaign Trail: Write-In". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  3. ^ "Massachusetts Election Statistics". Massachusetts SOS. 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
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  6. JSTOR 1396083
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    JSTOR 20750921
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  8. S2CID 189379441
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  10. JSTOR 590520
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  11. JSTOR 43109412
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  16. ^ "American Sociological Association, History of Sociology, Lifetime Achievement Award". Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  17. ^ "American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict, Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service". Retrieved November 12, 2019.
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