Michael Kimmel

Kimmel

Distinguished Professor
Michael.Kimmel@stonybrook.edu

Areas of Interest

Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity, Political and Social Movements

Bio

Michael Kimmel's books include Changing Men (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), Men's Lives (9th edition, 2012), Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776 - 1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996), and The Gendered Society (5th edition, 2013), and the best-seller Guyland (2008).  

He is the Founding Editor of Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, and co-edited the Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2004) and the Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2004). The latter was awarded "Best in Reference 2004" by the New York Pubic Library Association.

His current research is "Angry White Men," a comparative study of the extreme right, White Supremacists, and neo-Nazis in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia.  

He consults regularly with the Ministries for Gender Equality in Norway and Sweden, and delivered the International Women's Day lecture at the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the European Space Agency. He's received numerous awards, including SWS "Feminist Lecturer" in 1999, and he was named "Feminist Mentor" by SWS in 2010.  He is a founder and Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and lectures extensively on campuses and in corporations in the U.S. and abroad.


For additional information please go to MichaelKimmel.com

CV

News & Events

   May 2013
   •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award 
 •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant
 •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award
 •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching
 •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service
 •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants
 •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper
 •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies
 •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor
  April 2013
  Jennifer Heerwig joins our department!
Kathleen Fallon joins our department!
• 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th
• Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014
• Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards
  March 2013
  • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics:  A Holistic Approach" on February 27th
• Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle:  Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th
• Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams:  Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th
• Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought:  The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th
• Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project:  Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th
IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320
• Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms:  Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th
  February 2013
  • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities?  The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th
• Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter:  Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th
• Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action:  The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th
• Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th
  January 2013
 

• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
• Michael Restivo wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
• Fernanda Page Poma selected as Top Graduate Student at Stony Brook University
• Cheryl Llewellyn wins Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship

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