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Krishan Kumar is a University Professor, as well as William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, and Sociology Department Chair. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cambridge and his postgraduate education at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Kumar has at various times been a Talks Producer at the BBC, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and has held Visiting Professorships at Bristol University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Central European University, Prague, the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has alos been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Among his publications are Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society; Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times; The Rise of Modern Society; From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society; 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals; The Making of English National Identity.

Mr. Kumar's current interests focus on empires and imperial peoples. Related interest include nationalism and nation identity, Europe, global history, and problems of historical sociology.

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Selected Publications

Books

Revolution: The Theory and Practice of a European Idea, (Ed.) London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971, pp. 330

Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial, London, Allen Lane: The Penguin Press, 1978; Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1978, pp. 416 (Japanese translation, Bunshindo Publishers, 1996)

Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth, (ed. with Adrian Ellis) London, Tavistock Publications, 1983, pp 212

Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 506, (Italian translation, Long Editore, 1995)

The Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social and Political Development of the West, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp. 338, (A collection of some of my previously published articles)

Utopianism, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1991; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1991, pp. 136, (Japanese translation, Showado, 1994; Romanian translation, Editura du Style, Bucharest 1998)

Utopias and the Millennium, (ed., with Stephen Bann) London, Reaktion Books, 1993, pp. 164

Public and Private in Thought and Practice, (ed., with Jeff Weintraub) Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 380

1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals, University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.

 

Articles

“English and French national identity: comparisons and contrasts.”  Nations and Nationalism 12(3):413-432.  (2006)

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Courses

Undergraduate Level SOC 1010 (101) - Introductory Sociology SOC 2559 - Human Society in History SOC 3020 (302) - Introduction to Social Theory SOC 4090 (409) - Sociology of Literature SOC 4054 (454) - Political Sociology

Graduate Level SOC 5030 (503) - Classical Sociological Theory SOC 5080 (508) - Comparative Historical Sociology SOC 5720 (572) - Nations and Nationalism SOC 7360 (736) - European Social Theory SOC 7400 (740) - Empires SOC 8054 (771) - Political Sociology SOC 8030/8040 (803/804) - Seminar Sociological Issues

University Seminar USEM 171 - Nations and National Identity

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