George Ross
Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought
email: gross@brandeis.edu
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Focus of Research Political Sociology, Social Theory, Economy and Society, Comparative Social Structures. Education Ph.D., Harvard University. |
George Ross is Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought (in Sociology and Politics) and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University. He has been Acting Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and Executive Director of the European Union Center at Harvard Unversity. He is an editor of French Politics Culture and Society, former Chair of the West European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association, executive secretary of the Conference Group on French Politics and Society, and a member of the European Union Team Europe in the United States. He served as Chair of the Council for European Studies from 1990-1997 and is presently a member of the Executive Board of the European Union Studies Association. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, held the Belgian "Chaire Franqui" in the social sciences in 1997-1998 and is an officier of the French Order des Palmes AcadŽmiques. His current interests include French and European politics, European industrial relations, the political economy of the European Union, European integration and changes in democracy in advanced industrial societies and globalization and social structures.
Publications
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Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society. Edited with Andrew Martin. Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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The Brave New World of European Labor, with Andrew Martin, et al, Berghahn, 1999). |
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Jacques Delors and European Integration, (Cambridge, England and New York: Polity/Oxford University Press, 1995). |
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European Politics in Transition, four editions, with Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, Christopher S. Allen, Stephen M. Hellman, and David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. |
The Mitterrand Experiment, edited with Stanley Hoffmann and Sylvia Malzacher (Cambridge, England and New York: Polity/Oxford University Press, 1987)
The View From Inside: Rank-and-File Communism in France, with Jane Jenson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985)
Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Thought and Strategy in the Political Economy Since 1945, with Peter Lange and Maurizio Vannicelli (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982)
Unions, Change and Crisis, Volume 2: The United Kingdon, West Germany and Sweden, with Peter Gourevitch, Andrew Martin et al (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984)
Workers and Communities in France, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)
History and Justice: Essays in Honor of Barrington Moore Jr, edited with Theda Skocpol, Tony Smith and Judy Vichniac (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming)
Ross has also published more than 150 articles.