Chad Alan Goldberg
Sociology, 8116B Social Science
Office: 608-262-2108
cgoldber@ssc.wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Chad Alan Goldberg (Sociology) specializes in comparative-historical, cultural, and political sociology as well as social theory. His research interests include the sociology of citizenship, democratic theory, social movements, and the welfare state. Since 2003, he has taught an undergraduate seminar on “The Jews, States, and Citizenship,” which explores the emancipation of European Jews in the nineteenth century in relation to sociological theories of state formation, citizenship, and nationalism. He helped organize and participated in a public lecture series on Zionism at the University of Wisconsin in 2004; contributed a review essay in 2005 to the journal Contemporary Sociology on Yaacov Lozowick’s book Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars; and brought David Hirsh, a British sociologist of anti-Semitism and a leading opponent of the campaign to blacklist Israeli academics, to Madison for two public lectures in 2006. He was invited to contribute the course syllabus for “The Jews, States, and Citizenship” to the third edition of The Sociology of Jewry: A Curriculum Guide and Critical Introduction, published by the American Sociological Association in 2007. His first book, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare, was also published in 2007. His introduction to and translation of Emile Durkheim’s “Antisémitisme et crise sociale” is forthcoming in the journal Sociological Theory, and he is currently writing a paper on “Jews and Modernity in Classical Sociological Theory” for a special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice. He was the George L. Mosse Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, during the spring 2008 semester. His home page is http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~cgoldber/.
