Author Index

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• L'Objet Social: Essai d'Epistemologie Sociologique. Paris: Lib. M. Riviere et Cie., 1969. 380 pp. [Review of book by Claude Riviere], Vol. 37 No. 4 (Winter 1970)

Biography not available.

• A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century [Review of book by Sir Charles Oman], Vol. 5 No. 2 (Summer 1938)

Gabriel Vahanian is Jeannette K. Watson Professor of Religion and Director of Graduate Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Death of God (1961), Wait Without Idols (1964), and No Other God (1966).

• From Karl Barth to Theology, Vol. 41 No. 2 (Summer 1974)

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas, Houston. Her most recent book is Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences (1992).

• Modern and Postmodern Conceptions of Social Order, Vol. 60 No. 2 (Summer 1993)

Mihaly Vajda, a Hungarian political philosopher, is visiting professor of sociology at the University of Bremen. His most recent book is Fascism as a Mass Movement (1977).

• The State and Socialism, Vol. 45 No. 4 (Winter 1978)

Carole S. Vance teaches anthropology, sexuality, and human rights at Columbia University. Her publications include Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1993) and “Thinking Trafficking, Thinking Sex” (in GLQ, 2011).

• States of Contradiction: Twelve Ways To Do Nothing About Trafficking While Pretending To, Vol. 78 No. 3 (Fall 2011)

Martin Van Creveld is professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include The Transformation of War (Free Press, 1990); The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israel Defense Force (Public Affairs, 1998); The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge University Press, 1999); The Art of War: Warfare and Military Thought (Cassel, 2000). He is currently working on a book entitled From the Amazons to GI Jane: Women, Men, and War.

• A Woman's Place: Reflections on the Origins of Violence, Vol. 67 No. 3 (Fall 2000)

Nicolas van de Walle is Professor of Government at Cornell University and a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC.

• Toward an Accountable Budget Process in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems and Prospects, Vol. 77 No. 4 (Winter 2010)

Biography not available.

• The Review of "Epistle to the Babilonians: An Essay on the Natural Inequality of Man, Vol. 38 No. 1 (Spring 1971)

Justus M. Van Der Kroef (Ph.D. Columbia, 1951) was born in Indonesia, of Dutch descent, and since World War II has twice returned to that area for extensive research into problems of cultural change, a subject on which he has written several books. He is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut).

• Collectivism in Indonesian Society, Vol. 20 No. 2 (Summer 1953)

• Chinese Assimilation in Indonesia, Vol. 20 No. 4 (Winter 1953)

• Social Structure and Economic Development in Indonesia, Vol. 23 No. 4 (Winter 1956)

• Patterns of Cultural Change in Three Primitive Societies, Vol. 24 No. 4 (Winter 1957)

• The Acquisitive Urge: A Problem in Cultural Change, Vol. 28 No. 1 (Spring 1961)

• Forum—Rejoinder to John Friedmann's Comment on The Acquisitive Urge [28:1], Vol. 28 No. 2 (Summer 1961)

Peter Van Der Veer, director of the Max Plnack Institute for the Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gottingen and professor at-large at Utrecht University, has published widely on religion and Nationalism in India, including the book Religious Nationalism (1994), and Imperial Encounters (2001).

• Ayodhya and Somnath: Eternal Shrines, Contested Histories, Vol. 59 No. 1 (Spring 1992)

• Spirituality in Modern Science, Vol. 76  No. 4 (Winter 2009)

Katherine S. Van Eerde, associate professor of history at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, based her present paper in part on interviews with government officials from the continent of Africa and other individuals in the continent of Africa, and with officials in the United States Department of State and Department of Labor. She also had access to official files for some of her material.

• Socialism in Western Europe at Mid-Century, Vol. 26 No. 4 (Winter 1959)

• Problems and Alignments in African Labor, Vol. 29 No. 1 (Spring 1962)

Biography not available.

• Public and Private, Vol. 46 No. 2 (Summer 1979)

David Van Zandt is president of The New School. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer, he has served in leadership positions in higher education for more than two decades. As president of The New School, he is active in national dialogues about innovation in higher education.

• Keynote Panel: What Ought Universities Look Like in 20 to 30 Years? Vol. 79 No. 3 (Fall 2012)

Biography not available.

• India’s Balance of Payments [Review of bool by Arun K. Banerji], Vol. 31 No. 1 (Spring 1964)

• The European Common Market and India. [Review of book by K. V. G. Gowda], Vol. 35 No. 2 (Summer 1965)

Arash Molavi Vasséi is a research and teaching assistant in the economics department at the University of Hohenheim. His interests include international and monetary macroeconomics, finance, and the history of economics. His recent publications include studies in the history of monetary and capital theory.

• Technological Unemployment as a Coordination Problem: New Light on Emil Lederer’s Work in Exile, Vol. 84 No. 4 (Winter 2017)

Miguel Vatter is Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW, Australia. He is the author of Machiavelli's The Prince: A Reader's Guide (2013), and The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (2014).

• Politico-Theological Foundations of Universal Rights: The Case of Maritain, Vol. 80 No. 1 (Spring 2013) 

• Republics Are a Species of State: Machiavelli and the Genealogy of the Modern State, Vol. 81 No. 1 (Spring 2014)

Gianni Vattimo is professor of aesthetics and chair of theoretical philosophy at the University of Turin.

• Myth and the Destiny of Secularization, Vol. 52 No. 2 (Summer 1985)

Jonathan Veitch is president of Ovvidental Collge. He is the author of, American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation and Colossus in Ruins. His next book is on higher education in the United States, which will use case studies of colleges and universities in the United States, including Black Mountain, Antioch, Bard, and NYU, to examine a range of contemporary issues.

• What We Talk about When We Talk about Disasters, Vol. 75 No. 3 (Fall 2008)

• Introduction: Academic Freedom and the Origins of the Research University, Vol. 76 No. 2 (Summer 2009)

Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, is the author of Voice and Equality (with Schlozman and Brady, 1995) and Designing Social Inquiry (with King and Keohane, 1994). He has served as president of the American Political Science Association.

• Fairness, Equality, and Democracy: Three Big Words, Vol. 73 No. 2 (Summer 2006)

Katherine Verdery is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (1996).

• Nationalism, Postsocialism, and Space in Eastern Europe, Vol. 63 No. 2 (Summer 1996)

Donald Phillip Verene is associate professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. With Giorgio Tagliacozzo he edited Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity (1976).

• Vico's Philosophy of Imagination, Vol. 43 No. 2 (Summer 1976)

• Response by the Author [to Berlin's Comments, 43:3. Giorgio Tagliacozzo, Guest Editor; Michael Mooney and Donald Phillip Verene, Associate Guest Editors, Vol. 43 No. 3 (Fall 1976)

Molly Black Verene compiled Critical Writings on Vico in English in Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity.

• Critical Writings on Vico in English: A Supplement, Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter 1976)

Charles M. Vest is president emeritus and professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of two books on higher education and research policy: Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT. and The Role of Research University (2004), and The American University From World War II to World War Web (2007).

• A Panel Discussion Among Academic Leaders: Free Inquiry at Risk Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II, Vol. 76 No. 2 (Summer 2009)

Sara Vestergren is a lecturer in psychology at the School of Psychology, Keele University. Her research focuses on participation in protests and outcomes of collective action, crowds, social identity, and environmental action.

• The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action, Vol. 90 No. 2 (Summer 2023)

William Vickrey is McVickar professor of political economy at Columbia University. His books include Microstatics (1964) and Metastatics and Macroeconomics (1964).

• Limitations of Keynsian Economics, Vol. 15 No. 4 (Winter 1948)

• Risk, Utility, and Social Policy, Vol. 28 No. 2 (Summer 1961)

• Economic Rationality and Social Choice, Vol. 44 No. 4 (Winter 1977)

• Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence, Vol. 46 No. 2 (Summer 1979)

Biography not available.

• On the Heroic Mind (Trans. Elizabeth Sewell and Anthony C. Sirignano), Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter 1976)

Arthur J. Vidich is professor of sociology and anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His most recent book is Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (1982).

• The National Culture of India. London: Asia Publishing House [Review of book by S. Abid Husain], Vol. 22 No. 4 (Winter 1961)

• Culture and Personality. [Review of book by Anthony F. C. Wallace], Vol. 29 No. 1 (Spring 1962)

• Power Cliques in Bureaucratic Society (Note), Vol. 29 No. 4 (Winter 1962)

• The Higher Dialectic of Philanthropy, Vol. 30 No. 4 (Winter 1963)

• Paul Radin and Contemporary Anthropology, Vol. 32 No. 4 (Winter 1965)

• Special Editor's Note: The Future of Latin America, Vol. 36 No. 2 (Summer 1969)

• Ideological Themes in American Anthropology, Vol. 41 No. 4 (Winter 1974)

• Social Conflict in the Era of Detente: New Roles for Ideologues, Revoutionaries, and Youth, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)

• Editor's Introduction, Vol. 42 No. 4 (Winter 1975)

• Political Legitimacy in Bureaucratic Society: An Analysis of Watergate, Vol. 42 No. 4 (Winter 1975)

• Sociology and Society: Disciplinary Tensions and Professional Compromises, Vol. 48 No. 2 (Summer 1981)

• The Moral, Economic, and Political Status of Labor in American Society, Vol. 49 No. 3 (Fall 1982)

• Benjamin N. Nelson [in memoriam], Vol. 49 No. 3 (Fall 1982)

• Secular Evangelism at the University of Wisconsin, Vol. 49 No. 4 (Winter 1982)

Thomas Vietorisz is professor of economics in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He coauthored Planning and Programming the Metalworking Industries with Special View to Exports (1972).

• Planning and Political Economy, Vol. 50 No. 2 (Summer 1983)

Packey J. Dee professor of political theory at the Universite of Notre Dame, is the author of several books, including Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (Princeton, 1996), Politics, Philosophy, Terror (Princeton, 1999), and Socratic Citizenship (Princeton, 2001). A new book, Public Freedom, is forthcoming from Princeton. Villa is currently working on a book entitled Teachers of the People, which looks at the political pedagogy of Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Marx.

• Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition, Vol. 74 No. 4 (Winter 2007)

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• Social-Economic Movements [Review of book by Harry W. Laidler], Vol. 12 No. 4 (Winter 1945)

Brody Viney is a research consultant with the World Bank. He previously worked in macroeconomics and fiscal policy at the Australian Treasury.

• Social Externalities and Economic Analysis, Vol. 88 No. 1 (Spring 2021)

Margaret Visser, a popular food historian worldwide, is the author of such books as The Way We Are (1997), The Rituals of Dinner (1991), and Much Depends on Dinner (1989), winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award in Britain for the Food Book of the Year. Her six-part series on everyday life in six European cities was broadcast by BBC Radio Four in early 1998.

• Food and Culture: Interconnections, Vol. 66 No. 1 (Spring 1999)

Shiv Visvanathan is a professor at Jindal Law School at O. P. Jindal Global University. He is the executive director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems.

• The Pluriverse of Failure in Indian Science, Vol. 83 No. 3 (Fall 2016)

• Science and the COVID Epidemic in India, Vol. 90 No. 1 (Spring 2023)

Eliseo Vivas, John Evans professor of oral and ntellectual philosophy at Northwestern University, has written several books in the field of art and culture and is working on three new books, including The Development of the Current Intellectual Ethos.

• Is A Conservative Philosophical Anthropology Possible?, Vol. 35 No. 3 (Fall 1968)

Gerald Vizenor is professor of English and director of the American Studies Summer Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He recently published Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) and Manifest Manners (1994).

• Wild Animals in Print: Representation and Transformations of Animals in Novels by Native American Indians, Vol. 62 No. 3 (Fall 1995)

Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) was professor of political theory and sociology at the University of Vienna. He wrote two books against Nazi racism and fled Germany in 1938. He taught at Louisiana State University from 1942 to 1958. He taught at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and was Chair of Political Science. In 1969 he moved back to the United States, joining Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace as Henry Salvatori fellow in California.

• The Foundation of Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy. [Review of book by Marvin Farber], Vol. 11 No. 3 (Fall 1944)

• The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding [Review of book by F. S. C. Northrop], Vol. 14 No. 2 (Summer 1947)

• The Origins of Semitism, Vol. 15 No. 4 (Winter 1948)

• Old China Hand and the Foreign Office [Review of book by Nathan A. Pelcovits], Vol. 16 No. 1 (Spring 1949)

James Voelkel is the senior fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Composition of Kepler's Astronomia Nova (2001) and Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy (1999).

• Tycho and Kepker: Solid Myth versus Subtle Truth, Vol. 72 No. 1 (Spring 2005)

Frank E.Vogel is the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques adjunct professor of Islamic legal studies and director of the Islamic legal studies program at Harvard Law School. His writings include Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia (Boston: Brill, 2000), and, with Samuel L. Hayes III, Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk and Return (Kluwer Law International, 1998).

• The Public and Private in Saudi Arabia: Restrictions on the Powers of Committees for Ordering the Good and Forbidding the Evil, Vol. 70 No. 3 (Fall 2003)

Jerome Vogel was the first Fulbright professor at the University of Abidjan and now directs the Parsons School of Design program in West Africa.

• Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Cote d'Ivoire, Vol. 58 No. 2 (Summer 1991)

Edmund H. Volkart, assistant professor of sociology at Yale University, was editor of a volume of essays on the work of W. I. Thomas, published in 1951 by the Social Science Research Council.

• Aspects of the Theories of W. I. Thomas [on Hinkle's paper in 19:4], Vol. 20 No. 3 (Fall 1953)

Vadim Volkov is associate professor of political science and sociology (on leave) at the Department of the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) and SSRC-MacArthur Foundation post-doctoral fellow, Program on Peace and International Security in a Changing World. Among his recent publications are "Violent Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Russia" (Europe-Asia Studies, 1999) and Organized Violence, Market Building, and State Formation in Post-Communist Russia (Ledeneva and Kurkchiyan, eds., 2000).

• The Political Economy Protection Rackets in the Past and Present, Vol. 67 No. 3 (Fall 2000)

Ernst Vollrath is Professor of philosophy at the University of Cologne. His most recent book is Die Rekonstruktion der Urteilskraft (1977).

• Rosa Luxemburg's Theory of Revolution, Vol. 40 No. 1 (Spring 1973)

• That All Governments Rest on Opinion, Vol. 43 No. 1 (Spring 1976)

• Hannah Arendt and the Method of Political Thinking, Vol. 44 No. 1 (Spring 1977)

Wolf Graf von Baudisson is director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. 

• Changes in the Meaning of Military and Political Concepts of Peace, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)

Alice von Bieberstein studied social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher until December 2015. She researches and writes on memory politics and citizenship in Germany and Turkey.

• From Aggressive Humanism to Improper Mourning: Burying the Victims of Europe’s Border Regime in Berlin, Vol. 83 No. 2 (Summer 2016)

Fred R. von Der Mehden is assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. His work on the developing areas centers especially on Southeast Asia, and he has recently completed a book on religion and nationalism in that area.

• Political Action by the Military in the Developing Areas, Vol. 28 No. 4 (Winter 1961)

Biography not available.

• Phyllobia. Fur Peter con der Muhll zum 60. Geburstag [Review of book by Kurt von Fritz]., Vol. 16 No. 1 (Spring 1949)

• Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory [Review of book by Max Hamburger], Vol. 19 No. 4 (Winter 1952)

Andrew von Hirsch is honorary professor of penal theory and penal law at the University of Cambridge and the founding director of the Center for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Crimonology. His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (with Ashworth, 2005).

• The Desert Model for Sentencing: Its Influences, Prospects, and Alternatives, Vol. 74 No. 2 (Summer 2007)

Siegfried von Kortzfleisch, professor of theology, Universitet Gottingen, is editor of Lutherische Monatshefte and has written widely in the field of religion. He is working with Wilhelm Kahle on a new book, Kirchen im Osten.

• Religious Olympism, Vol. 37 No. 2 (Summer 1970)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker is director of the Max Planck Institute on the Preconditions of Human Life in the Modern World, Starnberg, and the author of Die Einheit der Nature (1971).

• Can We Plan for Peace?, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)

Viktor Voronkov is director of the Center for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg.

• The Informal Public in Soviet Society: Double Morality at Work, Vol. 69 No. 1 (Spring 2002)