Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Sociology

Sociology
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Civic innovation, public policy for democracy, political sociology, organizations, employee participation. Current research, teaching, and public service focus on civic innovation and democratic renewal in the contemporary U.S.

Profile

Interested in civic action and public policy in the areas of community organizing and development, civic environmentalism, healthy communities, youth civic engagement, service learning, and renewing the democratic mission of higher education.

Awards and Honors

Senior Advisor, National Commission on Civic Renewal (1996 - 1998)

White House Working Group, Research Director, "Reinventing Citizenship" (1994)

Institute for Advanced Study Member, Princeton University (1985 - 1986)

National Humanities Fellowship (1985 - 1986)

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Fellow, Harvard University (1978 - 1979)

Courses Taught

SOC	1a	Order and Change in Society
SOC	111a	Political Sociology
SOC	147a	Organizations and Social Change
SOC	175b	Environmental Organizations, Networks, and Partnerships
SOC	214b	Community Empowerment in the United States: Theory, Practice, and Policy
SOC	290c	Proseminar
USEM	10b	Youth and Democracy

Scholarship

Sirianni, Carmen and Jennifer Girouard. ""The Civics of Urban Planning"." The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. Ed. Rachel Weber and Randall Crane. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen with Stephanie Sofer. ""Environmental Organizations"." The State ofNonprofit America. Second ed. Ed. Lester Salamon. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. "Civic Innovation and Youth Engagement: The Hampton Model of Systems Change and Culture Change." Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, third edition. third ed. Ed. Frank Fischer, Carmen Sirianni, and Michael Geppert. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen and Diana Schor. "City Government as Enabler of Youth Civic Engagement." Policies for Youth Civic Engagement. Ed. James Youniss and Peter Levine. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009

Sirianni, Carmen. "Street Science." Rev. of Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice, by Jason Corburn. Journal of the American Planning Association vol. 75:2 (2009

Sirianni, Carmen. "The Civic Mission of a Federal Agency in an Age of Networked Governance,." American Behavioral Scientist 52. 6 (2009): 933-952.

Sirianni, Carmen. Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2009.

Sirianni, Carmen. "Neighborhood Planning as Collaborative Democratic Design: the Case of Seattle,." Journal of the American Planning Association 73. 4 (2007): 73-87.

Sirianni, Carmen. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Civic Enabler: The Watershed Approach,." National Civic Review 95. 3 (2006): 17-34.

Sirianni, Carmen and Lewis Friedland. The Civic Renewal Movement: Community Building and Democracy in the U.S.. Dayton: Kettering Foundation Press, 2005.

Sirianni,Carmen. "Civic Innovation, Conflict, and Politics." The Good Society. Ed. Lewis Friedland., 2003. 74-82.

Sirianni,Carmen. "Volunteering Then and Now: Civic Innovatoin and Public Policy for Democracy." United We Serve: National Service and the Future of Citizenship. Ed. E.J. Dionne, Kayla Drogosz, and Robert Litan. Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2003. 191-197.

Sirianni,Carmen. Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal. University of California Press, 2001.

Sirianni,Carmen, co-ed. Cameron MacDonald. Working in the Service Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Sirianni,Carmen, co-ed. Frank Fischer. Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Sirianni,Carmen, co-ed. Karl Hinrichs and William Roche. Working Time In Transition: the Political Economy of Working Time in Industrial Nations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

Sirianni,Carmen, ed.. Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Sirianni,Carmen, co-ed. Frank Fischer. Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Sirianni,Carmen, co-ed. James Cronin. Work, Community, and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

Sirianni,Carmen. Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: The Early Soviet Experience. London: NLB, 1982.