Jeffrey K. Olick

On Leave Fall 2009

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Office:
University of Virginia
Sociology Department
543 Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Faculty ID#: B184
E-mail:
Phone: (434) 924-3526
Fax: (434) 924-7028

Curriculum Vitae | Selected Publications | Courses


Jeffrey Olick is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia.   While he has published on a wide variety of topics, his interests focus particularly on collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany.  Olick has published three books:

Current book projects include the following:

  • The Collective Memory Reader (with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy).  Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Sins of the Fathers: Governing Memory in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1995.  Forthcoming, Chicago Studies in the Practices of Meaning, University of Chicago Press. 

Two book projects based on translations and critical editions of materials surrounding the Frankfurt Group Experiment are currently supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Award (with Andrew J. Perrin):

  • Theodor Adorno: Guilt and Defense.

and

  • Before the Public Sphere: The Frankfurt School, Public Opinion, and the Group Experiment of 1955.

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Selected Publications

"Times for Forgiveness: An Historical Perspective," in Considering Forgiveness, edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni. New York: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2009.

"From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products," in Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nunning. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

“The Ciphered Transits of Collective Memory: Neo-Freudian Impressions.” Social Research 75, 1, Spring 2008: 1-22.

“Collective Memory: A Memoir and Prospect.” Memory Studies 1, 1, Winter 2008: 23-29.

"Collective Memory." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Holocaust." International Encyclopeida of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Political Sociology." International Enclyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Political Culture." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.

"Popular Culture." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

"Collective Memory and Nonpublic Opinion: An Historical Note on Methodological Controversy about a Political Problem." Symbolic Interaction, February 2007.

"The Guilt of Nations?" Ethics and International Affairs, Fall 2003: 109-117.

"Social Memory Studies: From 'Collective Memory' to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices," (with Joyce Robbins). Annual Review of Sociology 24, 1998: 105-140.


Courses

Undergraduate Level
SOC 2470 (247) - American Society & Pop Culture
SOC 3020 (302) - Intro to Social Theory
SOC 406 - Contemporary Social Theory
SOC 415 - Time and Memory
SOC 4230 (423) - Deviance and Social Control
SOC 4850 (485) - Media Culture and Society

 

Graduate Level
SOC 5030 (503) - Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 5060 (506) - Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC 515/801 - Time and Memory
SOC 7360 (736) - European Social Theory

SOC 8054 (854) - Political Sociology

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