Professor Doug McAdam on the Current State of American Democracy

Doug McAdam is The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.  He is the author or co-author of 18 books and some 85 other publications in the area of political sociology, with a special emphasis on race in the U.S., American politics, and the study of social movements and “contentious politics.”  In addition to Deeply Divided, among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, a new edition of which was published in 1999 (University of Chicago Press); Freedom Summer (1988, Oxford University Press), which was awarded the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award as well as being a finalist for the American Sociological Association’s best book prize for 1991; Dynamics of Contention (2001, Cambridge University Press) with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly; and the 2012 book, A Theory of Fields (Oxford University Press), with Neil Fligstein. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Parking is available in the Bush-Holley museum’s lot on Strickland Road (under the I-95 overpass), and there will be signage directing guests to the proper walkways and to the Education Center behind the Bush Holly House.  No cars are allowed to park in the driveway that services the Center.