Title: Professor

Sociology Office: 4146C BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-3015

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Research Interests: cities; qualitative and historical analysis; immigration; ethnicity; politics

Recent Courses:

• Classical Sociological Theory, 485
• Democracy in an Age of Disorder, 465/547
• Immigration, 520

Web Addresses: www.anthonyorum.net

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Bio: Anthony Orum received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1967. Since then he has taught at several universities, including Emory University, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and, for the past eighteen years, the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author and/or editor of several books, among them: Black Students in Protest (American Sociological Association Rose Monograph Series, 1972); Introduction to Political Sociology (4 editions); City-Building in America (Westview, 1995); with Xiangming Chen, The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Blackwell, 2003); and with Joe Feagin and Gideon Sjoberg as co-editors, A Case for the Case Study (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).   His articles have appeared in major journals, such as the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Social Science Quarterly, and a number of them have been reprinted one or more times. He is the Inaugural Editor of City & Community, a journal jointly sponsored by the American Sociological Association and its Community and Urban Sociology Section. And in early 2006, he will embark on a new book, with Xiangming Chen and Krista Paulsen, tentatively entitled, Introduction to Cities: Place and Space in the Human Experience (Blackwell).