Joel Andreas
Joel Andreas is an American author and college professor. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California in Los Angeles, and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which he joined in 2003. His research interests include political contention, social inequality, and social change in China today.[1]
Early life and academic career
Andreas spent his early childhood in Detroit, and became interested in political activism when he accompanied his parents to political demonstrations against the Vietnam War. His younger brother, Peter, now a professor at Brown University, described their later childhood after their parents split.[2] Their father, Carl, was more conservative than their mother, Carol Rich Andreas. Carl was benefits manager for the United Auto Workers and Carol a leader of the Michigan Women's Liberation Coalition. After the divorce, she took the children to Berkeley, California.[3]
After working in an automobile plant and as a printer, Andreas attended
In 2017, he received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies to convene a conference, "Land Dispossession in Rural China and India."[5]
Graphic novels
Prior to the publishing of Rise of the Red Engineers in 2009 many of Andreas's published writings had been
Andreas's style of illustrated books was originally inspired by those of Eduardo "Rius" del Río.[6]
Published works
- The Incredible Rocky (PDF) (1975). New York: ISBN 0-9596607-0-4.
- Made with Pure Rocky Mountain Scab Labor
- ISBN 1-904859-02-X.
- —— (2019). ISBN 9780190052607.
- —— (2009). ISBN 9780804760775.
- —— (2007). "The Structure of Charismatic Mobilization: A Case Study of Rebellion During the Chinese Cultural Revolution". American Sociological Review. 72 (3): 434–458 (25). S2CID 16214909.
- —— (2004). "Leveling the Little Pagoda: The Impact of College Examinations, and Their Elimination, on Rural Education in China". Comparative Education Review. 48: 1–47. S2CID 146462106.
- —— (2002). "Battling over Political and Cultural Power During the Chinese Cultural Revolution". Theory and Society. 31 (4): 463–519. S2CID 55652966.
Notes
- ^ Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University
- ISBN 978-1501124426.
- ^ Diffily, Anne (2017). "My Mother the Radical". Brown Alumni Magazine.
- ^ About Joel Andreas
- ^ American Council of Learned Societies
- ^ a b Kamiya, Setsuko (2003-08-03). "Activist draws on his talents to expose U.S. militarism". The Japan Times Online. Archived from the original on 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
External links
- Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey, and Joel Andreas on Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing (2008)
- "Revolution, Reform & Class Transformation in China". Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Spring 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
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