Daniel Levy (sociologist)

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Daniel Levy is a GermanAmerican political sociologist and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and political science (1986) and a Master of Arts in sociology (1990) from Tel Aviv University, as well as a Doctorate of sociology from Columbia University in 1999.[1] He is a specialist on issues relating to globalization, collective memory studies, and comparative historical sociology.[2] Levy, along with the historians Paul Gootenberg and Herman Lebovics, is a founder and organizer of the Initiative for Historical Social Science, a program that is run out of Stony Brook with the goal of promoting the "New Historical Social Sciences".[3] He also, along with the Human Rights scholar and historian Elazar Barkan, is the founder of the "History, Redress, and Reconciliation" Seminar series at Columbia University. The seminars are an attempt to provide "a forum for interdisciplinary work on issues at the intersection of history, memory, and contemporary politics" focusing particularly on the "redressing [of] past wrongs and gross violations of human rights."[4]

Levy serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology,[1][5] the European Journal of Social Theory,[1][6] and for Memory Studies.[7]

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  1. 1 2 3 Levy, Daniel. "Curriculum Vitae - Daniel Levy" (PDF). State University of New York, Stony Brook website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  2. "Daniel Levy". Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights website. March 2010. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  3. "Initiative for Historical Social Sciences". State University of New York, Stony Brook website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  4. "Current Seminars: History, Redress, and Reconciliation". Columbia University Seminars website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  5. "Rose Series in Sociology Editorial Board Members". American Sociological Association website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  6. "Editor - Daniel Levy". SAGE Publications website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  7. "Memory Studies Editorial Board". SAGE Publications website. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
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