Denis OHearn
Professor (Director of Graduate Studies)
Office: LT 409
Office hours as posted or by appointment.
Phone: ext. 7-2463
Email: dohearn@binghamton.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Denis O'Hearn was trained as an economist and sociologist at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1988. He worked for a number of years in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he was Associate Professor, and at Queens University Belfast, where he was Professor of Economic Change. He has been Fulbright Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin and visiting scholar at several universities in the US, Europe and Japan. He has been on the Board of the Centro de Estudos Sociais in Coimbra, Portugal and the Board of Experts of the Esercizio di Valutazione Nazionale della Ricerca in Italy. He is now on the PEWS Council of the American Sociological Association.
His scholarly interests are in social movements, the sociology of economic change, transnational corporations, Marxian political economy, and imprisonment. He has published extensively in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Politics & Society, British Sociological Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, he has been researching the dynamics of conflict between anti-systemic social movements and states. Among the cases he has been studying are the prison conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland and the Zapatistas in Mexico. He is also working with prisoners in supermax prisons across the US.
Recent Courses:
Comparative Social Development
Global capitalism, Local Responses
Developmental States
Theoretical Studies
Prison Experiences
Recent Publications:
'Repression and solidarity cultures of resistance: Irish political prisoners on protest', American Journal of Sociology, 15:2 (September 2009).
'Embodied perception and utopian movements: connections across the Atlantic,' in David Lloyd and Peter O'Neill, Black and Green Atlantic, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
D'eirigh me ar maidin: Beathaisneis Roibeaird Ui Sheachnasaigh do Leitheoiri Nios Oige (Coisceim and Beyond the Pale 2006, with Laurence McKeown).
Nothing but an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation (Nation Books and Pluto Books, 2006).
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland (University of Manchester Press, 2001). (Winner of the 2002 American Sociological Association PEWS prize for Distinguished Scholarship.)
Critical Development Theory: Contributions toward a New Paradigm (Zed, 1999, with Ronnie Munck)
Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model (Pluto, 1998)
Office: LT 409
Office hours as posted or by appointment.
Phone: ext. 7-2463
Email: dohearn@binghamton.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Denis O'Hearn was trained as an economist and sociologist at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1988. He worked for a number of years in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he was Associate Professor, and at Queens University Belfast, where he was Professor of Economic Change. He has been Fulbright Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin and visiting scholar at several universities in the US, Europe and Japan. He has been on the Board of the Centro de Estudos Sociais in Coimbra, Portugal and the Board of Experts of the Esercizio di Valutazione Nazionale della Ricerca in Italy. He is now on the PEWS Council of the American Sociological Association.
His scholarly interests are in social movements, the sociology of economic change, transnational corporations, Marxian political economy, and imprisonment. He has published extensively in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Politics & Society, British Sociological Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, he has been researching the dynamics of conflict between anti-systemic social movements and states. Among the cases he has been studying are the prison conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland and the Zapatistas in Mexico. He is also working with prisoners in supermax prisons across the US.
Recent Courses:
Comparative Social Development
Global capitalism, Local Responses
Developmental States
Theoretical Studies
Prison Experiences
Recent Publications:
'Repression and solidarity cultures of resistance: Irish political prisoners on protest', American Journal of Sociology, 15:2 (September 2009).
'Embodied perception and utopian movements: connections across the Atlantic,' in David Lloyd and Peter O'Neill, Black and Green Atlantic, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
D'eirigh me ar maidin: Beathaisneis Roibeaird Ui Sheachnasaigh do Leitheoiri Nios Oige (Coisceim and Beyond the Pale 2006, with Laurence McKeown).
Nothing but an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation (Nation Books and Pluto Books, 2006).
The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland (University of Manchester Press, 2001). (Winner of the 2002 American Sociological Association PEWS prize for Distinguished Scholarship.)
Critical Development Theory: Contributions toward a New Paradigm (Zed, 1999, with Ronnie Munck)
Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model (Pluto, 1998)
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