Harry Dahms

Harry F. Dahms has been an associate professor of sociology (since 2004), Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice (since 2009), and Co-Chair of the Committee on Social Theory (since 2013), and was Director of Graduate Studies (2006-2011) and Associate Head (2006-2010) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. His primary research and teaching areas are theoretical sociology (social, sociological, and critical theory), economic sociology, globalization, social inequality, and social justice. Since 2008, he has been Editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory, and since 2012, Co-Coordinator of the International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC).

Education and career

Previously, he taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee (starting in 1993), and as a visiting professor at University of Göttingen, Germany (1999/2000) and at University of Innsbruck, Austria (2011, 2012) . Before completing his PhD degree at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1993, he also taught at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While at the New School, he benefited from the teaching and guidance of Arthur J. Vidich, Andrew Arato, José Casanova, Ágnes Heller, Robert Heilbroner, Guy Oakes, Claus Offe, Eric Hobsbawm, and others. His master's degree is from University of Konstanz, Germany (1986), where Ralf Dahrendorf and Albrecht Wellmer were the most important influences.