Gordie Fellman

Title

Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Expertise

Marx and Freud. Social class and social change. Deconstructing war, building peace. Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. Empowerment. Masculinities.Psychoanalytic sociology.

Profile

Professor Fellman seeks to understand how liberating social change is impeded by certain structures and psychological forces, and how social change is furthered by certain structures and psychological forces.

Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D.

Antioch College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	fellman@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2642
Office:	Pearlman Hall, 110

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Awards and Honors

Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service: Dr. Gordon Fellman (Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University), section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict, of the American Sociological Association (2011)

Distinghuished Interdisciplinary Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University Law School (2009)

Student Union Best Teaching Award (2007)

Chaplains' Award (1999)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1999)

M.S. Arnoni Award for Writing, Jewish Currents (1988)

Courses Taught

EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
SOC	112b	Social Class and Social Change
SOC	115a	Masculinities
SOC	119a	Deconstructing War, Building Peace
SOC	141a	Marx and Freud
SOC	153a	The Sociology of Empowerment
SOC	157a	Sociology of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation

Scholarship

Fellman, Gordon A. "Professor of Sociology." Rev. of No Enemies, No Hatred, by Liu Xiaobo. Los Angeles Review of Books 2012

Fellman, Gordon A, Cheryl Rubenberg. ""Peace: Current Options for Resolving the Conflict"." Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 3 vols. 2011.

Fellman, Gordon A. ""Responding to the Debate between Sasson, et al, and Cohen and Kelman"." Contemporary Jewry 30. (2011): 247-251.

Fellman, Gordon A. "“On Social Analysis and Social Change”." TIKKUN Winter 2011.

Fellman, Gordon A, Les Kurtz. "Enemy, Concept and Identity of." Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. second ed. 3 vols. 2008.

Fellman, Gordon A. "Professor." Rev. of A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq, by David Cortright. Mobilization vol. 11 2007: 506-507.

Fellman, Gordon A. "Professor." Rev. of Freud and American Sociology, by Philip Manning. Contemporary Sociology vol. 37 2007: 80-81.

Fellman, Gordon A. "World Conflict." Encyclopedia of Sociology (Blackwell). 2007.

Fellman,Gordon A. "World Conflict." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. first ed. vol. X Ed. George Ritzer. Blackwell, 2007. pp. 5291-5295.

Fellman, Gordon A. "How The Mutuality Paradigm Fosters Freedom." Per Contra 1. no. 6 (2006): <http://www.percontra.net/3nonfictionfellman.htm>.

Fellman,Gordon A. World Views, Emotional Honesty, and How to Move Beyond One's Own Destructive Pattern of Behavior. McFarland Press, 2006.

Magrass, Yale, long interview with me/Fellman. ""Horowitz's List: The Right Attack on Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom"." Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books 17. 5 (2006).

Fellman,Gordon A. "The Courage of Social Scientists." Courses in Courage Antioch College and the Social Sciences. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2005

Fellman,Gordon A. "World Views, Normative Masculinity, and the Invention of Peace." Seattle Journal of Social Justice (2005).

Fellman,Gordon A. Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

Fellman,Gordon A, co-ed. w/ William Schwartz, Charles Derber, Willia. The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter and What Does. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

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