| 词条 | Krishan Kumar (sociologist) |
| 释义 |
| name = Krishan Kumar | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1942}} | birth_place = Trinidad and Tobago | death_date = | death_place = | residence = United States | citizenship = British | fields = Sociology, history | workplaces = BBC, University of Kent, University of Virginia | alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Kent | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }} Krishan Kumar (born 1942 in Trinidad and Tobago)[1] is a British sociologist who is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia, where he holds the titles University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology. Early life and educationKumar was educated at William Ellis School in London and studied as an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge and for a master's degree at the London School of Economics. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Kent from 1967, where he also studied for a PhD, and had a spell as a producer for the talks and documentaries department of the BBC.[2] CareerKumar remained at Kent, attaining the position of Professor of Social and Political Thought, until his appointment at Virginia in 1996.[2] Kumar has held several visiting professorships, including at the University of Bristol, the Central European University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.[2] His research interests include nationalism and European and global history.[3] Kumar's publications include Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society (Allen Lane, 1978), Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times (Basil Blackwell, 1987), The Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social and Political Development of the West (Basil Blackwell, 1988), Utopianism (Open University Press, 1991), 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and The Making of English National Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2003).[2] The latter was described by Bernard Crick as a "scholarly masterpiece" and "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian".[4] His work on utopianism, meanwhile, "should...find an admired place in contemporary sociology", according to Frank Webster.[5] Kumar has also published articles in academic journals, including Sociology, the European Journal of Political Research, the European Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Political Studies, the British Journal of Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory and Nations and Nationalism.[2] References1. ^{{cite news |last=Broomley |first=Anne E. |date=August 29, 2017 |title=Here’s What We Can Learn Today From Empires of Yesterday |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/heres-what-we-can-learn-today-empires-yesterday |access-date=November 7, 2017 }} 2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://sociology.virginia.edu/sites/sociology.virginia.edu/files/Kumar.K.CV_15-16.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae: Krishan Kumar|publisher=University of Virginia|accessdate=27 December 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/peopleofsociology/kkumar.htm|title=Krishan Kumar|publisher=University of Virginia|accessdate=10 February 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/26/highereducation.politicalbooks|title=The friendly face of nationalism|first=Bernard|last=Crick|work=The Guardian|date=26 April 2003|accessdate=10 February 2011}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=192242§ioncode=6|title=Novel status and statistics|work=Times Higher Education Supplement|date=5 November 2004|accessdate=10 February 2011}} External links
13 : 1942 births|Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge|Alumni of the London School of Economics|Alumni of the University of Kent|English sociologists|University of Virginia faculty|Living people|Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to the United Kingdom|English expatriates in the United States|People educated at William Ellis School|People from London|Trinidad and Tobago people of Indian descent|English people of Indian descent |
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