The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Biographical Note

Neil Gross is Assistant Professor of Sociology. He received his BA from the University of California-Berkeley and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gross works on classical and contemporary sociological theory, the sociology of intellectuals, and the sociology of culture.

He is coeditor and cotranslator, with Robert Alun Jones, of Durkheim’s Philosophy Lectures: Notes from the Lycée de Sens Course, 1883-4 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

His first book, Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008.

Gross’s articles have appeared in American Sociological Review, Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, and other journals, and he is a contributor to Sociology in America: A History, edited by Craig Calhoun (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

04/11/2008

Courses Offered This Academic Year

Sociology 204
( fall 2006 )
Sociological Theory: Seminar Catalog #6189
Sociology 97
( spring 2007 )
Sophomore Tutorial Catalog #5079
Social Studies 10
( fall&spring )
Introduction to Social Studies  

Papers available in Portable Document Format (PDF)

The Social and Political Views of American Professors Neil Gross and Solon Simmons Working paper

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