CSI : Sidney G. Tarrow

SIDNEY G. TARROW is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He received training in American Studies from Syracuse University (B.A., 1960), in Public Law and Government from Columbia University (M.A., 1961), and in Political Science from the University of California -- Berkeley (Ph. D., 1965). Prior to joining Cornell as an Associate Professor in 1971, Dr. Tarrow was on the faculty at Yale University (1965-71).

He has also held visiting positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Rennes, European University Institute, University of Florence, Sydney University, Oxford University, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, the University of Pavia, and the Juan March Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Madrid. He has been awarded a Guggenheim, a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, a German Marshall Plan Fellowship, a Fulbright, and grants from the Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has twice been invited to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of at least 15 journals and academic presses and countless association committees.

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Research Interests
Dr. Tarrow's areas of interest include comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action, and political sociology. His 1990 monograph, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford), received the Best Book in Collective Action and Social Movements award from the American Sociological Association. His major book is Power in Movement (Cambridge, 1998).

In the past five years, Dr. Tarrow has co-authored or edited four other books and monographs, including The Social Movement Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; edited with D. Meyer), Contentious Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; with D. Imig), Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001; with D. McAdam and C. Tilly), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2001; with R. Aminzade et al). He has published numerous articles in sociological and political science journals.

In 2001, Dr. Tarrow won Ford Foundation and NSF grants for research and teaching on transnational contention over issues of global inequality that will be housed at the Center. He will coordinate a workshop on this topic at the Center in 2001-2.


Sidney G. Tarrow sgt2@cornell.edu		SIDNEY G. TARROW is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He received training in American Studies from Syracuse University (B.A., 1960), in Public Law and Government from Columbia University (M.A., 1961), and in Political Science from the University of California -- Berkeley (Ph. D., 1965). Prior to joining Cornell as an Associate Professor in 1971, Dr. Tarrow was on the faculty at Yale University (1965-71). He has also held visiting positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Rennes, European University Institute, University of Florence, Sydney University, Oxford University, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, the University of Pavia, and the Juan March Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Madrid. He has been awarded a Guggenheim, a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, a German Marshall Plan Fellowship, a Fulbright, and grants from the Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has twice been invited to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of at least 15 journals and academic presses and countless association committees. --- Research Interests Dr. Tarrow's areas of interest include comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action, and political sociology. His 1990 monograph, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford), received the Best Book in Collective Action and Social Movements award from the American Sociological Association. His major book is Power in Movement (Cambridge, 1998). In the past five years, Dr. Tarrow has co-authored or edited four other books and monographs, including The Social Movement Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; edited with D. Meyer), Contentious Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; with D. Imig), Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001; with D. McAdam and C. Tilly), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2001; with R. Aminzade et al). He has published numerous articles in sociological and political science journals. In 2001, Dr. Tarrow won Ford Foundation and NSF grants for research and teaching on transnational contention over issues of global inequality that will be housed at the Center. He will coordinate a workshop on this topic at the Center in 2001-2.