Military Service:
U.S. Army Combat Engineers, 1956-1958 (draftee)
Degrees:
B.A., Sociology (cum laude), Princeton University , 1956
M.A., University of California , Los Angeles , 1960.
Ph.D., University of California , Los Angeles , 1963
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Norwich University , 1992
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Towson University , 2002
Professional Experience:
1964-1966 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
1966-1970 Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
1970-2003 Professor of Sociology,Northwestern University
1996-2003 Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair , Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
2003-present Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University
Fields of Interest:
Military Sociology
National Youth Service
Introductory Sociology
Greek American Studies
Fellowships:
1969-1970 Senior Faculty Fellow, Ford Foundation: study of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Cyprus
1980-1981 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: study of all-volunteer force
1983-1984 Humanities Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation: study of citizenship and national service
1987-1988 S.L.A. Marshal Chair, Army Research Institute for the
Behavioral and Social Sciences: study of peacekeeping
1991 Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: study of post-Cold War military
1992-1993 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: study
of race relations in military
1995 Visiting Fellow, Annenberg Washington: study of military and the media
1995 S.L.A. Marshall Chair, Army Research Institute for the
Behavioral and Social Sciences: study of armed forces after the Cold War
2002 Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars: study of international military cooperation
2002 Eisenhower Chair, Royal Military Academy , Netherlands
2003 S.L.A. Marshall Chair, Army Research Institute for the
Behavioral and Social Sciences: study of military recruitment
Citizenship:
Testimony presented to U.S. Senate: Armed Services Committee (1978, 1981, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001), Veterans Affairs Committee (1976. 1980, 1991); U.S. House of Representatives: Armed Services Committee (1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1998 1999, 2000. 2004), Budget Committee (1985).
Accompanied American Combat Troops:
Vietnam (1965 and 1967), Dominican Republic (1966), Honduras (1984), Panama (1990), Saudi Arabia (1991), Somalia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1995), Bosnia (1996 and 1998), Kosovo (2000), Iraq (2003).
Writings Translated:
Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish.