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Gabriel Vahanian

Gabriel Vahanian is the Jeannette K. Watson Professor of Religion and the 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).

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is an 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).

Mihaly Vajda

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

Carole S. Vance

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).

Martin Van Creveld

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

Nicolas van de Walle

Nicolas van de Walle is a professor of government at Cornell University and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

Justus M. van der Kroef

Justus M. van der Kroef (PhD 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 an associate professor of sociology at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer, the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gottingen and a professor at-large at Utrecht University, has published widely on religion and nationalism in India, including the books Religious Nationalism (1994) and Imperial Encounters (2001).

Katherine S. Van Eerde

Katherine S. Van Eerde, an 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.

Herman van Gunsteren

Biography not available.

David Van Zandt

David Van Zandt is the 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.

Arash Molavi Vasséi

Arash Molavi Vasséi is a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Economics 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.

Miguel Vatter

Miguel Vatter is a professor of politics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of South Wales in 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).

Gianni Vattimo

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

Jonathan Veitch

Jonathan Veitch  is the president emeritus of Occidental College, where he holds a Distinguished Chair in American History. Prior to that he taught at the New School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of American Superrealism: The Politics of Representation in the 1930s (1997) and several articles on cultural history. He is currently at work on a book that explores the contentious debates over liberal arts education in the United States.

SIdney Verba

Sidney Verba, the 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 the president of the American Political Science Association.

Katherine Verdery

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

Donald Phillip Verene

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

Molly Black Verene

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

Charles M. Vest

Charles M. Vest is president emeritus and a 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).

Sara Vestergren

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

William Vickrey

William Vickrey is the McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. His books include Microstatics (1964) and Metastatics and Macroeconomics (1964).

Arthur J. Vidich

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

Diego Vilches Parra

Diego Vilches Parra has a PhD in history and teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Diego Portales. He is the author of the book Del Chile de los triunfos morales al país ganador: Historia de la selección chilena durante la dictadura militar, 1973–1989 (2017) and the article “The Pinochet’s Team: The Soccer National Team and the Coup d’état of September 11, 1973” in The International Journal of the History of Sport (2023).

Thomas Vietorisz

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

Dana Villa

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

Brody Viney

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

Margaret Visser

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.

Shiv Visvanathan

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.

alex s. vitale

Alex S. Vitale is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics (2008) and The End of Policing (2017). He has published in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Urban Affairs Review. He is also a frequent essayist for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Nation, Fortune, and USA Today.

Eliseo Vivas

Eliseo Vivas, the John Evans Professor of Oral and Intellectual 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.

Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is a professor of English and the 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).

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) was a 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 a Henry Salvatori Fellow in California.

James Voelkel

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).

Frank E. Vogel

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

Jerome Vogel

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

Edmund H. Volkart

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

Vadim Volkov

Vadim Volkov is an associate professor of political science and sociology (on leave) at the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) and an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the 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).

Ernst Vollrath

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

Wolf Graf vOn Baudissin

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

Alice von Bieberstein

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

Fred R. von der MeHden

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.

Andrew von Hirsch

Andrew von Hirsch is an 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 Criminology. His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (with Ashworth, 2005).

Siegfried von Kortzfleisch

Siegfried von Kortzfleisch, a professor of theology at Universitet Gottingen, is the 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.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

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

Viktor Voronkov

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

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