Center for the Study of Social Movements

and Social Change

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana USA

Staff

Daniel J. Myers, Director
Sociology and Kroc Institute

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Assistant Director
Sociology

Core Faculty

Rory McVeigh
Sociology

Jackie Smith
Sociology and Kroc Institute

Erika Summers-Effler
Sociology

Faculty Affiliates

Eileen Botting

Political Science, Director of the Program in Gender Studies

Paul-Brian McInerney

Sociology, Indiana University South Bend

Teresa Ghilarducci

Economics and Policy Studies, Director of the Higgins Labor Research Center

Richard Pierce

History, Chairperson of Africana Studies

Christian Smith

William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology,

Director of the Center for the Study of Religion

Al Tillery

Political Science

Graduate Affiliates

Welcome to the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change

The Center is proud to announce Verta Taylor of the University of California, Santa Barbara as the 2008 recipient of the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior. The award honors scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the scholarly literature concerned with social movements, protest, collective violence, riots, and other kind of collective behavior over the course of his or her career.

The Center was founded in 2006 to provide an interdisciplinary emphasis on the study of collective political challenges expressed via protest, collective violence, and other extra-institutional collective.

The Center will provide a clearinghouse for information about scholarly activity related to the study of social movements and social change at Notre Dame. It will also provide means for linking social movement scholarship at Notre Dame with the broader community of social movement scholars.

Activities:

· Coordinate interdisciplinary, international conferences

· Host a faculty/graduate student workshop to discuss in-progress social movement research

· Sponsor lectures from outside scholars

· Facilitate an undergraduate research group

· Edit Mobilization, the leading social movements journal

· Produce edited volumes related to our conference themes

· Administer the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Movement Scholarship

· Coordinate curricular offerings and cross-listings related to social movements and social change

Center Mission
Read about the main goals of the Center.

Research in Progress
Completed and in-progress research from affiliated faculty, graduate students, and others.

Working Groups

SPAM Spring 2008 Presentation Schedule

Current Events 2007/08

2008 John D. McCarthy Award
Recipient: Verta Taylor
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Past Events (2006/07)

SPAM Spring 2007 Presentation Schedule

John D. McCarthy Lecture

New Directions in the Study of Happiness

North American Research Workshop on the World Social Forum Process

Information for Undergraduates

Information for Graduate Students

Travel Grant Application

Research Grant Application

Mobilization

Contact Us

CSSMSC is housed by the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Website questions and problems to cssm@nd.edu.