Faculty Guide

Title

Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought

Environmental Studies
Sociology

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

Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (elected, chartered by U.S. Congress), permanent appointment (2010)

Faculty Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2009)

Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought: endowed chair (2009)

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

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

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

National Humanities Fellowship (1985 - 1986)

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

Courses Taught

SOC	1a	Order and Change in Society
SOC	111a	Political Sociology
SOC	123b	The Welfare State and Nonprofit America
SOC	147a	Organizations and Social Change
SOC	175b	Environmental Movements: Organizations, Networks, and Partnerships
SOC	214b	Community Empowerment in the United States: Theory, Practice, and Policy
SOC	220b	Seminar on the Sociology of Politics
USEM	10b	Youth and Democracy

Scholarship

Sirianni, Carmen, and Jennifer Girouard, ed. Varieties of Civic Innovation: Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. ""Governance"." Encyclopedia of Political Thought, in Michael Gibson, et al.. first ed. 1 vols. 2013. (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. "“Collaborative Self-Governance and the Administrative State: Emergent Mission and Practice at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,”." Varieties of Civic Engagement: Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches. Ed. Jennifer Girouard and Carmen Sirianni. Nahville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. "Democracy as Problem Solving." Rev. of Democracy as Problem Solving, by Xavier de Souza Briggs. Perspectives on Politics 2011 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. ""Justice and the Division of Labor: Durkheim's Unresolved Tensions in The Divisi¬on of Labor in Societ¬y,"." Durkheim. Ed. Roger Cotterell. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010 (forthcoming)

Sirianni, Carmen. "Big Rights, Small Citizens: A Review Essay." Rev. of Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (New York and London: Cambridge University Press),, by Margaret Somers. Contemporary Sociology

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. ""A Movement for Democratic Renewal"." Reconstructing Publicity: A Study of Community Building in Rural China. vol. 2 Beijing, China, and Dayton, OH: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2013 (Chinese edition); Kettering Foundation (English edition), 2013. Chinese edition published, but have not yet received copy..

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, 2012. 669-90.

Sirianni, Carmen and Stephanie Sofer. ""Environmental Organizations"." The State of Nonprofit America. Second ed. Ed. Lester Salamon. Washington, DC: Brookings Press, 2012. 294-328.

Sirianni, Carmen, ed. Review essay in symposium on Cathy J. Cohen, Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010,. Perspectives on Politics, June 2012, 2012.

Sirianni, Carmen. "“Networks of Democracy”." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, special section, First Principles: Reclaiming Citizenship (with James Kloppenberg, Eric Liu) 24 (2012): 20-27.

Sirianni, Carmen (lead co-author of meeting report, as well as accompanying academic report). Partnering with Communities: Federal Models of Community-Based Programs. Washington DC Brookings Institution conference: 2010.

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. 121-63.

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.