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John Hamilton Bradford : Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2010       University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ph.D. Sociology

  • Areas:  Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Theory, Environmental Sociology, Research Methods.
  • Dissertation Title:  “Systems, Social Order, and the Global Debt Crisis.”
  • Committee Chair:  Harry F. Dahms.  Committee Members:  Steven P. Dandaneau, R. Scott Frey, and Allen Dunn

2007       University of Tennessee, Knoxville, M.A.  Sociology

  • Thesis:  “The Falling Rate of Profit Thesis Reassessed:  Toward a Sociology of Marx’s Value Theory of Labor”

2003       Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, B.A.  General Studies:  

  • Minors:  Religious Studies, Philosophy, Political Science

 

Professional Experience

2012 -  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi Valley State University

2014-15                Visiting Scholar, Social Sciences Research Center, Mississippi State University

2011-12                Lecturer, University of Alabama, Huntsville

2010-11                Lecturer, University of Tennessee

2007-10                Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee

2005-07                Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee

 

 Courses Taught (2005-2014)

Lower level:  Introduction to Sociology; Social Psychology; Social Problems; Social Justice

Upper level:  Environmental Sociology; Power and Society; Comparative Poverty and Development; Research Methods; Elementary Social Statistics; Sociological Theory

 

Service Experience

QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan) Oversight Committee (2014 - )

University Academic Policy Council (2014 - )

Summer Research Grant Committee (2015 - )

Sociology Unit Coordinator, MVSU (2012 - 2014 )

Editorial Board, Current Perspectives in Social Theory (2013 - )

Chair of the Social Sciences Recruitment and Retention Committee (2013 - )

Social Sciences Assessment and Curriculum Committee (2012 - )

Designed the Department’s evaluation rubric for reading comprehension (2012)

Faculty adviser to the Social Science Student Council (2012 - )

Ad Hoc Sabbatical Evaluation Committee (2015)

Maintenance of sociology class website:  www.mvsusociology.org

 

Awards, Honors, Grants

2009       Graduate Summer Research Assistantship ($5,000), University of Tennessee

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Stratification and Inequality, Social Networks, Theory, Computational Sociology and Agent-based Modeling, Environmental Sociology, Research Methods, Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Globalization and Development.

 

Publications

Bradford,  John Hamilton (2014), Explaining Social Action Revisited: A Reply to John Levi Martin, in Harry F. Dahms (ed.) Mediations of Social Life in the 21st Century (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 32)Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.259 - 269

 

Bradford, John and Alex Stoner (2014), “The Treadmill of Destruction and Ecological Exchange in Comparative Perspective:  A Panel Study of the Biological Capacity of Nations, 1961-2007”, Contemporary Journal of Anthropology and Sociology 4(2), 87-113, available online here.

 

Bradford,  John Hamilton (2013), “Explaining Explanation: A Critical Review of John Levi Martin’s The Explanation of Social Action”, in Harry F. Dahms (ed.) Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 31), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.309-332

 

Bradford, John Hamilton (2012), “Communication, Language, and the Emergence of Social Orders,” in Harry F. Dahms, Lawrence Hazelrigg (ed.) Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 30), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.99-149

 

Bradford, John H.  (2012), "Capital, the State, and the Monetary Mode of Power:  A Review of Nitzan and Bichler's Capital as Power."  Review of Political Economy:  vol. 24 (4).  pp. 643-661.

 

Jones, Robert Emmet, Kimberly L. Davis and John Bradford (2012).  “The Value of Trees: Factors Influencing Homeowner Support For Protecting Local Urban Trees,” Environment & Behavior.  Published online before print May 9, 2012, doi: 10.1177/0013916512439409.

 

 

Select Presentations at Professional Conferences

 

2015       “The Treadmill of Destruction and Ecological Exchange in Comparative Perspective:  A Panel Study of the Biological Capacity of Nations, 1961-2007.”  Ecologically Unequal Exchange:  Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective in Knoxville, TN, October 15-16, 2015. 

 

2015       “Assessment of Research Consultation Services: Identifying Opportunities for Outreach Using LibAnalytics.”  2015 American Library Association Annual Conference  in San Francisco, CA, June 25-30, 2015.

 

2015       “Death Camp Empiricism:  Is Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy an Empirical Science?”  2015 Annual Conference of the Mississippi Political Science Association in Jackson, MS, February 13-14, 2015.     

 

2014       “Monetary Reforms, Revolutions, and Utopias:  A Critical Analysis of New Money Paradigms.”  International Social Theory Consortium Conference at the University of Tennessee, May 21st, 2014.

 

2013       “Modeling Financial and Status Hierarchies with Agent-Based Models,” Southern Sociological Society meeting, April 26th, 2013. 

 

2013       “Using Multi-Agent Simulations to Model Status Hierarchies,” Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 28, 2013.

 

2012       “Teaching Power in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Political Science Association at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS, Nov. 2-3, 2012.

 

2012       “Anti-Realism and the Emergence of Distinction,” The International Social Theory Consortium Conference at Flagler College, St Augustine, Florida, May 17-19.

 

2012       “Modeling Status Hierarchies and Income Inequality Using Multi-Agent Simulations,” Southern Sociological Society meeting, March 21-24.

 

2011       “Capital, the State, and the Monetary Mode of Power.”  The Capitalist Mode of Power:  Past, Present, Future, Toronto, October 20-1.

 

2011       “The Global Debt Crisis:  Money, Energy, and the Limits to Growth.”  Honors Forum, University of Alabama, Huntsville, September 27.

 

2011       “Network structure and financial power: how hierarchy and unequal exchange explain the debt crisis and rising inequality.”  Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, April 9, 2011.

 

2009       “Luhmann, Deleuze, and the Production of Selves.”  International Social Theory Consortium, Knoxville, May 14-16.

 

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