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Sewell, William H., Jr., 1940-


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    • William Hamilton
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    • Sewell, William Hamilton, 1940-
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    • Sewell, William Hamilton, 1940-
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    • found: Work and revolution in France, 1980:title page (William H. Sewell, Jr., Institute for Advanced Study [Princeton, N.J.])
    • found: Dir. Amer. scholars,v. 1, 1978 (Sewell, William Hamilton, Jr., b. 5/15/40)
    • found: Structure and mobility, 1984:CIP (William H. Sewell, Jr., U. of Ariz.)
    • found: Wikipedia, June 4, 2015(William H. Sewell, Jr.; born in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1940; American academic; he is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Sewell received his B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1962 and his Ph. D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971; he has made significant contributions in the areas of modern French labor, social, cultural and political history and social theory; he serves on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Advanced Study and was formerly a professor of sociology and history at the University of Michigan; he is known for promoting anthropological concepts in sociology, for studies of the French revolution, the French labor history, and the occupational sociology of Marseilles; he is the son of William Hamilton Sewell (1909-2001), the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1967 to 1968)
    • found: Institute for Advanced Study, via WWW, June 4, 2015(Historian and Political Scientist William H. Sewell Jr. Appointed to Institute Board; the Institute for Advanced Study has appointed William H. Sewell Jr., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, to its Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2009; appointed to the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1990, Sewell was named Max Palevsky Professor of Political Science and History in 1996; in 2004, he was named Franklin P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and History, and he became Professor Emeritus in 2007; Sewell was a Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Michigan from 1985-1990; he was an Associate Professor of History (1980-1983) and a Professor (1983-1985) at the University of Arizona, and also served as Instructor in History (1968-1971) and Assistant Professor (1971-1975) at the University of Chicago; in 2004, he was named a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he was a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute in 1971-1972, 1975-1980 and 2002-2003)
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    • 1980-04-04: new
    • 2015-06-10: revised
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