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J. Craig Jenkins

Professor & Chair

Office: 238A Townshend
Phone: 614.292.5452
Email: Jenkins.12@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975


Research Interests:

Specializes in political sociology and social movements. Current research projects include comparative analyses of social movements and violence, the world refugee crisis, ethnic and nationality conflicts, international terrorism, and global environmental degradation.


Recent Publications:

  • Jenkins, J. Craig and Charles Perrow. 1977. "Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Workers Insurgency, 1946-1972." American Sociological Review, 42: 249-26. (Republished in Ben Aguire and Russell Curtis (eds) Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Wadsworth, 1992; Doug McAdam and David Snow (eds) Social Movements. Roxbory Press. 1997; and Kelvin Matthews (ed.) The Social Movement Reader. Blackwells.)
  • Jenkins, J. Craig. 1977. "Push vs. Pull In Recent Illegal Mexican Migration." International Migration Review 11:178-190.
  • Jenkins, J. Craig. 1977. "The Radical Transformation of Organizational Goals: Professionalized Reform in the National Council of Churches." Administrative Science Quarterly, 22: 568-586.
  • Jenkins, J. Craig. 1978. "The Demand for Immigrant Labor: Labor Scarcity or Social Control?" International Migration Review, 12: 514-536, 1978.
  • Jenkins, J. Craig. 1981. "Sociopolitical Movements." Handbook of Political Behavior 5: 82-152. NY: Plenum Press.
  • Jenkins, J. Craig. 1981. "On the Neo-Functionalist Theory of Inequality: A Comment on Cullen and Novick." American Journal of Sociology 87: 177-180.