Steven P. Dandaneau

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Steven P. Dandaneau received his B.A. in economics (with honors) from Michigan State University (1986) and his M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1992) in sociology from Brandeis University. Prior to undertaking his current position at the University of Tennessee in June, 2006, Dandaneau served as Assistant (1992-99) and Associate (1999-2005) Professor of Sociology and Director of the University Honors & John W. Berry, Sr. Scholars Programs (2000-2005) at the University of Dayton, and thereafter as Visiting Professor of Sociology (Jan.-May 2006) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Books

2001  Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Times.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

1998  A Wrong Life: Studies in Lifeworld-Grounded Critical Theory.  Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.  Co-author: Maude Falcone.  Series in Social and Cultural
Theory, edited by Ben Agger.

1996  A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization.  Albany: State University of New York Press.  Series in Popular Culture and Political Change,
edited by Larry Bennett and Ronald Edsforth.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Forthcoming, “The Actuality of Critical Theory: A Reply to Dahms’ Late Prolegomena,” in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 26, edited by Harry F. Dahms.

Forthcoming, "Critical Theory, Legitimation Crisis, and the Deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan," Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory
Revisited (5th Edition), edited by Peter Kivisto.

Forthcoming, “Norms,” “Social Order,” “Role-Taking,” “Herbert Marcuse,” and “C. Wright Mills” in The Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer.  Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Forthcoming, Review of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (2009), by Daniel Geary, in American Studies Vol. 49: 3/4.

2009.  "Sisyphus Had It Easy: Reflections on Two Decades of Teaching the Sociological Imagination," in Teaching Sociology (37:  8-19)--special issue marking the 50th anniversary of C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination.

2009.  Review of Cosmic Society: Toward a Sociology of the Universe (2007), by  Peter Dickens and James Ormand, in Contemporary Sociology Vol. 38(1): 77-78.
Co-author: Debra K. Dandaneau.

Works-in-Progress

“Deindustrialization,” for The Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer.

“Life-&-Death Pedagogy: An Interview with Maurice R. Stein,” for submission to Teaching Sociology.

With Harry F. Dahms and Allen Dunn, editors, American Critical Theory: A Reader.

C. Wright Mills: Last Years, Late Work, a book manuscript.

Contact Information

Steven P. Dandaneau
Associate Provost,
Director of the Chancellor's Honors and Haslam Scholars Programs, and Associate Professor of Sociology

The University of Tennessee
F101 Melrose Hall
1616 Melrose Place
Knoxville, TN 37996-4352

Phone: 865-974-7875
Fax: 865-974-4784
E-Mail: sdandane@utk.edu