Maurice Zeitlin
Distinguished Research Professor
Current:
1.organized Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, 1940-45.
2. interracial working-class solidarity and black/white inequality in the United States
Degrees
Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1964.
Awards
The Max Weber Award, 2004. American Sociological Association, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, conferred "in recognition of an outstanding book published over the past three years" (with J. Stepan-Norris). The award committee wrote that Left Out is "certain to become a classic. [This] carefully-crafted study is a joy to read and an inspiration for other researchers."
Distinguished Scholarship Award (Honorable Mention), 2002, American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, conferred for "the best article written over the previous two years" (with L. F. Weyher).
Inaugural Distinguished Publication Award, 1997, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Labor Studies Division, conferred for "the best article in labor studies"(with J. Stepan-Norris).
Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1996, American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, conferred for "the best article written over the previous two years" (with J. Stepan-Norris).
Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1992, American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, conferred for "the best article written over the previous two years" (with J. Stepan-Norris).
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1981-82.
Project Censored Prize for "The Year's Top 'Censored' Story of 1981," conferred by a national panel of distinguished journalists, under the auspices of Project Censored, Sonoma State University.
Project Censored Prize for a story on "The Year's Ten Best 'Censored' Stories of 1978," conferred by a national panel of distinguished journalists, under the auspices of Project Censored, Sonoma State University.
Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation Fellowship, 1974.
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1970-71.
Ford Foundation Fellowship in Latin American Studies, 1965-67.
Grants
National Science Foundation, 1998, for research on capitalist strategy and unionism in coal mining in the United States.
National Science Foundation, 1982, for research on CIO industrial union organizing in the South of the United States.
National Science Foundation, 1981, for research on longshore unionism on the East and West coasts of the United States.
Selected Publications
Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions. Cambridge University Press, 2003 (with Judith Stepan-Norris).
Talking Union, University of Illinois Press, 1996 (with Judith Stepan-Norris).
The Large Corporation and Contemporary Classes. Polity Press and Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Landlords & Capitalists. Princeton University Press, 1988 (with Richard Earl Ratcliff).
The Civil Wars in Chile (or the bourgeois revolutions that never were). Princeton University Press, 1984.
Previous Courses by Term
Development of Sociological Theory
Comparative and Historical Methods: Research Techniques
Introduction to Sociological Research Methods
Honors Seminars
Comparative and Historical Methods: Strategies of Research and Conceptualization
Secret Coups, Imperial Wars, and American Democracy since World War II
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Introduction to Sociological Research Methods
Comparative and Historical Methods: Research Techniques
Introductory Sociology
Comparative and Historical Methods: Strategies of Research and Conceptualization
Secret Coups, Imperial Wars, and American Democracy since World War II
Topics in Political Sociology
Sociohistorical Methods
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Sociohistorical Methods
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Sociohistorical Methods
Comparative and Historical Methods: Research Techniques
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Comparative and Historical Methods: Strategies of Research and Conceptualization
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Topics in Political Sociology
Sociohistorical Methods
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative and Historical Methods: Research Techniques
Sociohistorical Methods
Comparative and Historical Methods: Strategies of Research and Conceptualization
Development of Sociological Theory
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Development of Sociological Theory
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Sociohistorical Methods
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
Social Structure and Economic Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Sociohistorical Methods
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Sociohistorical Methods
Undergraduate Seminar
Class, Politics, and Society
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Sociohistorical Methods
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
Special Topics in Sociology
Previous Courses by Course
Development of Sociological Theory
Comparative and Historical Methods: Research Techniques
2015 Spring Quarter
2011 Winter Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
2005 Spring Quarter
Comparative and Historical Methods: Strategies of Research and Conceptualization
2015 Winter Quarter
2010 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
2005 Winter Quarter
Honors Seminars
2015 Winter Quarter
Introduction to Sociological Research Methods
2015 Winter Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
Secret Coups, Imperial Wars, and American Democracy since World War II
2012 Spring Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
Topics in Sociological Theorizing
2012 Spring Quarter
2009 Fall Quarter
2008 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2004 Spring Quarter
2003 Spring Quarter
2002 Spring Quarter
Introductory Sociology
2010 Fall Quarter
Topics in Political Sociology
2010 Winter Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
Sociohistorical Methods
2009 Fall Quarter
2008 Fall Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2005 Winter Quarter
2003 Winter Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
2001 Spring Quarter
2000 Spring Quarter
Resistance to Evil: Organized Resistance to Nazis in Occupied Europe
2007 Winter Quarter
2006 Spring Quarter
2005 Spring Quarter
2002 Fall Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
2001 Spring Quarter
2000 Spring Quarter
1999 Spring Quarter
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
2005 Spring Quarter
Social Structure and Economic Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
2002 Winter Quarter
Undergraduate Seminar
2001 Winter Quarter
Class, Politics, and Society
2001 Winter Quarter
Special Topics in Sociology