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Meyer Kestnbaum
Associate Professor

 

Ph.D. Sociology, Harvard University, 1997

 

Office: 4129 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6431
Email: mkestn@umd.edu

Departmental Specialty Areas:
Military; Comparative; Theory

 

Professor Kestnbaum’s interests span the sociological study of the military, history and the technology. His recent work has been on the sociology of war, military conscription, citizenship & military mobilization, and the social impact of the internet.

 

Among others, Dr. Kestnbaum has taught graduate courses in States, Politics and Social Change: Institution approaches to Comparative Analysis; Great Books in Political Economy, Contentious Politics: Resistance, Revolution and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective; War and Society; States, Politic and Social Change; Great Books in Political Economy; and War and Society. He has taught undergraduate courses in The Sociology of War; Military Sociology; Understanding Nationalisms: State Building and the Politics of Identity, and an Honors course The Introduction to Sociology: The Great Transformation and Market Society in America.

 

Relevant Links:

 

Center for Research on Military Organization

 

Webuse Project

 

Peace, War and Social Conflict section of ASA

 

Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Socity (IUS)

 

Social Science Historical Association (SSHA)

 

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