James M. Jasper

Getting Your Way: Strategic Dilemmas in the Real
World
was published by the University of Chicago
Press in 2006.

You can order a copy from Amazon by
clicking here.
I am an independent scholar living in
New York. A long time ago, I studied
economics at Harvard and sociology at
Berkeley, and I've taught at Berkeley,
Princeton, Columbia, the New School,
and NYU. With Jeff Goodwin, I edited

Contexts
Magazine from 2005 to 2007.
In September 2007 I joined the faculty of
the
Graduate Center of the City
University of New York.
Some Upcoming Talks:

4 May: Dartmouth College

Some Past Talks:

13 November, 2008: "Emotions
and social movement theory.
Where are we now ?" Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris
[text]

17 February, 2008: Keynote at
Conference on Social
Development, Social Movements
and the Marginalized, IGNOU, New
Delhi
[text]

26 October, 2007: "Strategy and
Rhetoric in the Practice of Social
Research," Rutgers University
[text]

9 August, 2007: "Purpose and
Passion in Collective Action,"
keynote at Hofstra conference on
strategy and social movements
[text]

August, 2006: "Political Character
Types," presentation to the ASA
annual meeting, with Michael
Young
[text]