Ron R Aminzade

Contact Me

aminzade@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Sociology

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D: Sociology, University of Michigan, April, 1978.
• B.A., magna cum laude: Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Spring, 1971.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Historical and Comparative
• Political Sociology
• Sociology of Development
• Nationalism and Citizenship
• Race Relations
• Social Movements
• Democratic Theory

Courses Taught

• FSEM 1905 - Protesting Inequal
• Soc 3090 - Topics: Social and Political Protest around the Globe
• Soc 3301W - Politics & Society
• Soc 3322W - Social Movements, Protest and Change
• Soc 4090 - Transnational Activism
• Soc 4461 - Sociology of Racial & Ethnic Conflict
• Soc 4977V - Senior Honors Preseminar I
• Soc 4966W - Major Project Seminar
• Soc 4978V - Senior Honors Preseminar II
• Soc 8011 - Sociology of Higher Education
• Soc 8311 - Political Sociology
• Soc 8390 - Topics: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Race in Global Perspective
• Soc 8390 - Topics: Social Movements & Contentious Politics
• Soc 8890 - Research Methods: Historical Sociology

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Chair: Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Program , 2002 - 2004
• Series Co-Editor: University of Minnesota Press , 1996 - 2015

Research

• I am working on a collaborative research project on the politics of agricultural policy, land conflicts, and the future of small-scale farming in contemporary Tanzania

Outreach

• Vice President: Books for Africa, 2001 - 2005
• Community Solutions for Africa's Development: Board of Directors, 2007 - 2009
• Project Zawadi: Board of Directors, 2008 - 2010

Publications

• "Circulating Discourses: The Case of Agricultural Development in Tanzania,” with Rachel Schurman and Francis Lyimo. 2018. Sociology of Development 4(1):70-93.
• "The Political Economy of Administrative Corruption: Boundary Politics in Post-Colonial Tanzania." 2015. International Journal of Political Science and Development 3(2):85-100.
• Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania. 2013. UK: Cambridge University Press.
• "The Dialectic of Nation-Building in Post-Colonial Tanzania." 2013. The Sociological Quarterly 54:335-366.
• "Neoliberal Capitalism and the Death of Politics in Africa," Symposium on African Politics. Newsletter of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association 1, 3, 4: 1-19.
• "Nation Building in Post-Colonial Nation-States: The Cases of Tanzania and Fiji," with Erik Larson. 2009. International Social Science Journal 192:169-182.
• "Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania," with Erik Larson. 2007. The Sociological Quarterly 48(4):801-831.
• "From Race to Citizenship: The Indigenization Debate in Post-Socialist Tanzania," 2003. Studies in Comparative International Development 38(1):43-63.
• "“The Politics of Race and Nation: Citizenship and Africanization in Tanganyika." 2001. Pp. 53-90 in Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 14. Edited by Diane E. Davis. The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Awards

• Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2012
• Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award, 2012
• Graduate-Professional Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 2001
• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1990
• Center for Advanced Study, Palo Alto fellow