Just one more quick comment and then I'll quit because I know we're boring the thread with this academic gossip.
Bringing the state back in, it's my impression, is a mark of Skocpol's later work. I agree there. Her earliest work, the dissertation work, while it is entitled something like States and Revolution, is written under Barrington Moore's influence, and thus more about the social surrounds of the state than the state. That dissertation, of course, brought the book, that brought the controversy in which Harvard denied tenure, she goes to Chicago, then to Berkeley, and then back to Harvard, much to the consternation of the Harvard sociology types who by then were in the thralls of "if you can't count it it doesn't exist". Perhaps she decided to move to Government instead.
Whoops, just did a Google search and found, at least if The American Prospect can be trusted, that she has joint appointment in Sociology and Government. Nice that we are both right.
prospect.org
And then there is this page at a Harvard site.
fas.harvard.edu
Which is the Center for European Studies, which is quite strange since my impression is that her contemporary work is on American domestic policy. A woman for all seasons. |
