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:
- The
Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility, Routledge, 2007
- In
the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat,1943-1949, University of Chicago Press, 2005
- States
of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National
Retrospection,Edited
Volume, Duke University Press, 2003.
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
"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.
Undergraduate
Level
SOC 247 - American Society & Pop Culture
SOC 302 - Intro to Social Theory
SOC 406
- Contemporary Social Theory
SOC 415 - Time
and Memory
SOC 423 - Deviance and Social Control
SOC 485 - Media Culture and Society
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Graduate
Level
SOC 503 - Classical Sociological Theory
SOC 506 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOC
515 - Time and Memory
SOC 801 - Time and Memory
SOC 854 - Political Sociology |
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