Office address

Department of Sociology
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 580-5421

Education

PhD in Sociology, Emory University, 1994
MA in Sociology, Emory University, 1990
BA in Sociology/Anthropology, Earlham College, 1987

Areas of research and teaching interest

Stratification, Class, Race, Historical Sociology, Labor History, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion,Theory 

Scholarship

John Brueggemann. 2007. Negotiating the Meaning of Power and the Power of Meaning. Theology Today. 63: 485-492.

Terry Boswell, Cliff Brown, John Brueggemann, T. Ralph Peters. 2006. Racial Competition and Class Solidarity. Albany: SUNY Press.

John Brueggemann. 2004. Book Review of Society Under Siege. 2002. By Zygmunt Bauman Contemporary Sociology. 33: 222-223.

John Brueggemann and Cliff Brown. 2003. "The Decline of Industrial Unionism in the Meatpacking Industry: Event-Structure Analyses of Labor Unrest, 1946-1987." Work and Occupations. 30:327-360.

John Brueggemann. 2003. Book Review of Workplace Justice. 2002. By Sharon Kurtz. Mobilization.359-60.

John Brueggemann. 2002. "Commencement Address." Critical Sociology. 28:281-283.

John Brueggemann. 2002. "Racial Considerations and Public Policy in the 1930's: Economic Change and Political Opportunities." Social Science History. 26:139-178.

John Brueggemann and David Karp. 2002 "'Just Sometimes Our Presence…:' An Interview with H. Ward Greer on the Role of Black Churches in Building Community." Contemporary Justice Review. 5:285-292.

John Brueggemann and Cliff Brown. 2000. "Strategic Labor Organizing in the Era of Industrial Transformation: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Unionization in Steel and Coal, 1870-1916." Review of Radical Political Economics. 32:541-576.

John Brueggemann. 2000. "The Power and Collapse of Paternalism: The Ford Motor Company and Black Workers, 1937-1941." Social Problems. 47:220-240.

Reprinted in Henry Ford: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management. John C.Wood and Michael C. Wood, editors. 2003.  New York:  Routledge. (328-357).

Terry Boswell and John Brueggemann. 2000. "The Deskilling of the Copper Mining Industry and Formation of a Nationalist Labor Market Segmentation, 1880-1920." Research in Social Movements, Change, and Conflict. 22: 193-218.

John Brueggemann. 1999. Book Review of W. E. B. DuBois, Race and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy. 1998. Edited by Michael B. Katz and Thomas J. Sugrue. Contemporary Sociology. 28:673-674.

John Brueggemann. 1998. Book Review of The Middle Class and Democracy in Socio-Historical Perspective. 1995, by Ronald M. Glassman. Contemporary Sociology. 27:576-7.

John Brueggemann and Terry Boswell. 1998. "Realizing Solidarity: Sources of Interracial Unionism During the Great Depression." Work and Occupations. 25:436-482

Cliff Brown and John Brueggemann. 1997. "Mobilizing Interracial Solidarity: A Comparison of the 1919 and 1937 Steel Industry Labor Organizing Drives." Mobilization. 2:47-70. 

John Brueggemann. 1997. "A Century After the Philadelphia Negro: Reflections on Urban Ethnography and Race in America." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 26:364-374. 

John Brueggemann. 1997. Book Review of Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven by James Tracy. Theology Today. 54: 286. 

John Brueggemann. 1995. "Class, Race, and Symbolic Community: A Multivariate Analysis." Critical Sociology. 21:71-88. 

John Brueggemann. 1994. Book Review of Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968. By Alan Draper. Contemporary Sociology. 24:46-47. 

Co-authored with Anita Beaty, Adam Feuerstein and Ward Smith. 1994. Homelessness in Metropolitan Atlanta. Report for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. 

Co-authored with Adam Feuerstein and Ward Smith. 1993. The Criminalization of Poverty: City Ordinances Unfairly Target Homeless People for Arrest. Report for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. 

Terry Boswell, Joya Misra and John Brueggemann. 1991. "The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam and Dutch Hegemony: Evidence from the Baltic Sound Tolls, 1500-1750" in Cities in the World System, edited by Resat Kesaba. New York: Praeger. 

Terry Boswell, Mike Sweat and John Brueggemann. 1989. "War in the Core of the World System: Testing the Goldstein Thesis," in War in the World System, edited by Robert K. Schaeffer. New York: Greenwood Press.

Papers presented

2004. "The Rise and Fall of the United Electrical Workers of America: Defending or Assaulting 
Democracy in Cold War Labor Politics," paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

2002. "The Rise and Fall of the Packinghouse Workers: Event-Structure Analysis of Labor Organizing in the Meatpacking Industry," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

2000. "The Power and Collapse of Paternalism: The Ford Motor Company and Black Workers, 1937-1941," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.

2000. "Critical Sociology and the Legacy of C. Wright Mills," invited panelist at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C.

1999. "Racial Considerations and Public Policy in the 1930's: Economic Change and Political Opportunities,"  presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

1999. "Balancing Teaching and Research Expectations in the Early Faculty Career," invited panelist at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

1999. "The Future of Critical Sociology," invited panelist at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago. 

1998. "Realizing Solidarity: Sources of Interracial Unionism During the Great Depression," (with Terry Boswell) presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.

1997. "Strategic Labor Organizing in the Era of Industrial Transformation: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Unionization in Steel and Coal, 1970-1916," (with Cliff Brown) presented at the annual meetings of the Humanist Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA. 

1997. "Technological Innovations in the Steel and Coal Industries and Interethnic Labor Organizing, 1970-1920: A Comparative Historical Analysis," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada. 

1997. "The Racial Divide in Labor Organizing," presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA. 

1996. "Mobilizing Interracial Solidarity: A Comparison of the 19919 and 1937 Steel Industry Organizing Drives," (with Cliff Brown) presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. 

1995. "Split Labor Markets and Interracial Labor Solidarity: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Nine Cases of Union Organizing Drives, 1869-1952," (with Cliff Brown) paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. 

1995. "Event-structure and Qualitative Comparative Analyses of Three Inter-racial Union Organizing Drives." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA. 

1994. "Comparative Historical Analysis of Inter-racial Labor Organizing in the Coal, Steel and Auto Industries, 1927-1941," (with Terry Boswell) presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA. 

1994. "Research as a Tool for Addressing Homelessness," presented at the conference on "Homelessness: Reclaiming Our Commitment," sponsored by the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless and the National Coalition for the Homeless, Minneapolis,MN. 

1991. "Class, Race and Symbolic Community," paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, OH. 

1990. "The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam: Evidence from the Baltic Sound Tolls, 1500-1750," (with Terry Boswell and Joya Misra) presented at the annual meetings of the Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA. 

1988. "War in the Core of the World System: Testing the Goldstein Thesis," (with Terry Boswell and Mike Sweat) presented at the annual meetings of the Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA.
 

Teaching experience

At Skidmore College, 1994-2007:

"Development of Sociological Thought" 
"Class, Race and Labor History" 
"Sociology of Religion"
"Ethnicity and Inequality"
"Social Inequality" 
"Sociological Imaginations"
"Sociology of Labor Conflict"
"Sociological Perspectives" 

Awards and honors

President's Day Award Presented to Committee on Educational Policies and Planning, Skidmore College, 2001.

Other work related activities

College Committee work: Committee on Academic Standing, Athletic Council, Committee on Educational Planning and Policy, Masters of Liberal Studies Committee, Benefits Committee, Athletic Review Committee, Presential Inauguration Committee, Dean of Special Programs Search Committee, Athletics Director Search Committee, Retention Group, Dean of Studies Study Group, Faculty Development Committee, Student Orientation Committee, All College Council

Reviewer: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Work and Occupations, Social Forces, Quest, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Mobilization, ASA Teaching Resource Center