Thomas janoski

University and Scholarly Activities

International Organizations:

Dissertation advisor: Political Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shalom Zarbiv, 2012 to present.

Faculty Tenure Reviewer: Political Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Sociology Department, Michigan State University, Sociology Department,

Temple University.

Research Evaluator: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Social Sciences Research

Talent 2012.

National Organizations:

Chair-Elect, Political Sociology Section, ASA 2016-2018.

Dissertation Award Committee: ASA, (2012-2015), Chair in 2014-15.

Journal Reviewer for: American Sociological Review (1996-present); American Journal of Sociology 1997-2004), Sociological Forum (1997-present); The Sociological Quarterly (2009 to present); Social Problems (1996-present); American Journal of Political Science (1997); Journal of Ethnographic Studies (2002-2003); Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (1998-2000); Social Forces (1996-2002, 2005-present).

Panel Reviewer: National Science Foundation, Social and Behavioral Sciences Section,

Dissertation Improvement Grants. 2009-2011.

Manuscript Reviewer: Cambridge University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Academic

Press, Routledge, and University of Pittsburgh Press.

Award Selection Committee: ASA Political Sociology Section,

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for an Article, 1998-

2000. ASA Political Sociology Section, Distinguished Contribution for Scholarship Award for a Book, 1995-96.

Book reviewer: Contemporary Sociology (1988-present).

Editor: Political Sociology: States, Power and Societies, ASA Political Sociology

Section, 1995-98.

Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation, Social and Behavioral Sciences Section,

1994-95, 1999-present.

Selection Committee: Social Science Research Council, Western European Dissertation Grant

Review Committee, 1990-92.

University of Kentucky:

Graduate Students:

Dissertation chair on 16 dissertation committees (Dr. Sara Compion, Dr. Sneha Dutta, Dr. Chrystal Henderson Grey, Dr. Jui Jang Jao (co-chair), Dr. Matthew DeMichele, Dr. Baishaki Banerjee Taylor, Dr. Darina Lepadatu, Dr. Elizabeth Biebel (co-chair), Dr. Christine Larson, Dr. Carey Pierrat, Dr. Jeremy Hickman, Dr. Sakin Erin, Dr. Fayin Xu, David Luke, Grace Cale, and Omid Kamran-Disfani.

Thesis chair on 8 thesis committees (Completed: Fengjuan Wang, Chrystal Grey, Kathleen Gish, Karen Diggs, Adam Jonas, Jonathon Holland, Grace Cale and Ran Duan.

Dissertation committee member on 26 dissertation committees (7 in education, 13 in

sociology, 6 in political science). [see International service above for one more political

science dissertation in Israel]

Outside examiner on 5 dissertation committees (Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Educational Policy. Studies and Evaluation & Special Education)

University Service:

Director, Quantitative Initiative for the Political and Social Sciences (QIPSR), 2013-2016.

Social Sciences Representative, College of Arts and Sciences, Executive Committee, Elected to serve from 2011 to 2014.

Board of Advisors, Quantitative Institute for the Social Sciences, 2009-present.

Committee on Social Theory, 2001-present.

Executive Committee, Poverty Institute at the University of Kentucky, 2010-2012.

Chair, Quantitative Methods Committee (QMC), 2010-2013.

Non-medical Institutional Review Board (IRB), 2005-2007.

University Senator, University Senate, elected to serve from 2001 to 2004.

University-wide Graduate Student Fellowship Committee, 2003.

Convener for Social and Behavioral Science Interest group, 2003.

Quantitative Methods Committee in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chair 1999-2003.

Political Economy Reading Group (PERG), Co-chair, 1999-2001.

International Summit on Research, Teaching and Service at UK, Social Sciences Representative 1999.

Sociology Department Service:

Merit Review Committee, 2013-2015.

Preliminary Examination Committee, 2013-2015.

Professional Development and Sociology Speakers Series, Chair 2009-2012, member 2007-2010

University-wide Vetting Committee for the Social Sciences, 2009-2010.

Graduate Studies Committee, Sociology, 1996-97,1998-2000, 2004-2009, 2014-2015.

Chair, Sociology Awards Committee 2005-2009.

Research and Grants Committee, Chair, 1999-present.

Chair Search Committee, Sociology 2004-5.

Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology Department, July 2006 - July, 2009.

Graduate Committee, Sociology Department, 2003-2004, 2006-2009, 2010-2011, 2013-present.

Global Work and Politics Area, Chair, 2012 to present.

Professional Development Committee, Chair, 2003-2006, 2009-2012.

Chair Search Committee, 2003-2004.

Policy Committee, 1998-99, 2000-2001.

Work, Organizations, and Social Change Committee, Chair, 1997-98, 2000-2011.

Work, Organizations, and Social Change Committee, 1996-2011.

Public Relations Committee, Chair, Sociology 2001-2005.

Departmental Space Committee, 1999-2001.

Assessing Welfare Reform Committee and Chair, 1997-98.

Sociology Methodology Committee, 1997-98, chair 1998-1999.

Merit Review Committee, 1996-98.

Duke University Service:

Dissertation chair for two graduate students, and on 13 dissertation committees.

Thematic Faculty Working Group Steering Committee: Citizenship and Civil Society,

Chair 1991-94.

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Sociology Department, Duke University, 1987-94.

Comparative/Historical Graduate Committee, Sociology Department, Duke University, 1987-94.

Marketing and Management Studies, Co-founder and Board of Directors, Duke University,

1991-95.

Faculty Search Committee in Sociology Department, 1992-94.

Social Sciences Speaker, Debate of the Disciplines, 1993.

Western European Committee, Duke University, 1990-92.

Human Subjects Committee, Duke University, 1988-91.

Comparative Labor Committee, Duke University, 1988-94.

Comparative Area Studies Advisory Board, Duke University, 1987-91.

Major Advisor, Comparative Area Studies, Duke University, 1988-91.

PreMajor Advisor, Duke University, 1988-91.

Selection Committee, Undergraduate Marshall Fund Program, Duke University, 1989.

Selection Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities, “Generations and Modernity”, 1989.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate University of Kentucky:

Sociology 101: Introduction to Sociology (4 times), [Departmental service course]

Sociology 442G: Work and Occupations (10)

Sociology 435(443): Power and Politics in Society (7)

Sociology 443: Conflict and Cooperation at Work (2)

Sociology 380: Sociology of Globalization (1)

Sociology 347: Immigration, Citizenship and Empire (4)

Sociology 342: Organizations and Work (9),

taught as summer Web course (4),

International Studies 449: Capstone Seminar in International Studies (1)

Graduate University of Kentucky:

Social Theory 600: Seminar in “Market Failure, Famine and Crisis” (1)

Social Theory 600: Seminar in Transnational Migrations (1)

Sociology 531: Citizenship and Civil Society in China and the United States (1)

Sociology 651: Sociological Theory (8) [Required graduate course]

Sociology 682A: Seminar in Comparative and Historical Methodology (5), [Required graduate course]

Sociology 680: Research Methods in Sociology (5), [Required graduate course]

Sociology 680-780: Research Proposal Writing in Sociology (3) [Required graduate course]

Sociology 645: Seminar in Political Sociology (5)

Sociology 642: Seminar in Work and Occupations (4)

Sociology 610: Prose-seminar in Organizations (1)

Sociology 772: Seminar in Aliens, Strangers and Citizens (1)

Sociology 772: Seminar in Outsourcing, Downsizing, and Resistance (1)

Undergraduate Duke University:

Sociology 10D: Introduction to Sociology (7 times), [Departmental service course]

Sociology 190: Capstone Seminar in Management and Marketing Studies (7)

Sociology 155: Organizations and Management (6)

Sociology 143: Labor and Management Relations (6)

Sociology 114: Comparative Sociology (2)

Sociology 125: Strategies of Comparative Inquiry (2), [Comparative area studies major required course]

Sociology 173: Citizenship and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (1)

Undergraduate University of California, Berkeley:

Sociology 440: Work and Occupations (1)

Graduate Duke University:

Sociology 214: Comparative and Historical Methodology (3) [Departmental service course]

Sociology 222: Comparative Welfare States (2)

Sociology 225: Labor and Management Relations (1)

Global Experience

8/1973 to 2/1975: Traveler. Planned and carried out an independent trip for eighteen months

through the Far East, Southeast Asia, Australia, Central Asia and Europe. Visited hill tribes in the Golden Triangle, Phnom Penh while under siege, Pathet Lao bases in Laos, UN refugee bases outside Saigon, the Batak people in Central Sumatra, tribes in Afghanistan, Sherpas in the Himalayas and Mount Everest base camp. Lived in isolated parts of Indonesia (Sumatra, Sumbawa, Portuguese Timor); at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville in Pondicherry, India; with the Balinese in Denpassar, Indonesia; in a blue collar community in Darwin, Australia; in a communist commune in Helsinki, Finland; and with working class families in Tarnow, Poland.
Non-Academic Job Experience

10/1975 to 3/1978: Compliance survey specialist, Veterans Administration Regional Office, Los

Angeles, CA. Conducted compliance surveys of over 100 schools: universities (including extended surveys of UC-Irvine and UCLA), community colleges, flight and diving schools, colleges of cosmetology, business schools, and apprenticeship councils.

1/1973 to 8/1973: Employment counselor, Drug Dependency Treatment Unit at the VA

Hospital, Allen Park, MI. Found employment for veterans detoxified from heroin

and participated in group therapy sessions.

6/1971 to 1/1973: Benefits counselor, VA Regional Office in Detroit, MI.

Counseled and solved benefit problems for a wide range of veterans, and managed the Special Problems Unit.

5/1970 to 5/1971: Community relations representative, 7th Ordnance Company, U.S. Army, Korea. Taught English at Hyundai International Corporation, and to families in Anyang-ni.

5/1970 to 5/1971: Secret documents clerk to Ammunition records sergeant, 7th Ordnance Company, U.S. Army, Korea. Maintained documents on nuclear warheads in 18 field and 4 internal units at a maximum security depot. Promoted from PFC to Sergeant in minimum time. Top secret military clearance.

Other Blue Collar, Clerical and Military Work Experience

Door-to-door enumerator: R. L. Polk Corporation, Detroit, MI. 1975;

Trash disposal & truck driver: Australian Air Force, Darwin, Australia. 1973-74;

Prawn packer & freezer loader: Northern Products, Darwin, Australia. 1973-74;

Infantry squad leader: U.S. Army, Ft. Polk Academy, Ft. Polk, LA, 1969-70;

Armored personnel carrier driver: U.S. Army, Ft. Knox, KY, 1970;

Steward, house manager & bus boy: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 1967-69.

Caustic jolterman & hi-lo driver: Wyandotte Chemicals (BASF), Wyandotte, MI. 1968;

Janitor for Chemistry Department: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 1968-69;

Piston shooter on assembly line: Chrysler Corporation, Trenton, MI. 1967-68;

Radiator painter & packer: Karmazin Radiators, Wyandotte, MI. 1967;

Coal gang & boiler house crew: Wyandotte Chemicals (BASF), Wyandotte, MI. 1966;

Blast furnace crew & general labor: National Steel Corporation, Ecorse, MI. 1965.

Mail boy: Wyandotte Chemicals (BASF), Wyandotte, MI. 1965;

Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association (since 1978), American Political Science Association (since 1982), International Sociological Association, Labor and Employment Research Association (formerly named Industrial Relations Research Association) (since 1980), Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly called the International Industrial Relations Association), Council for European Studies, Southern Sociological Society, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Amnesty International, Society for Human Resources Development Professionals.

Community Service and Leadership

SOKY Certified Coach, Special Olympics Swimming, Lexington, KY. 2000-present.

Board of Directors, ARC of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY. 2000-2005.

Catholic Action Center, Organizing Committee and Board. Lexington, KY. 2000-2002.

Catholic Workers Movement, Organization Committee, Lexington, KY, 2000-2001.

Volunteer fund-raiser at Rupp Arena concession stand, Lexington, KY, 1997-2003.

Member, Governor's Task Force on Inclusion, State of North Carolina, 1992-94.

Board of Directors, ARC of Durham, North Carolina, 1991-93.

Member, State Convention Planning Committee, ARC-North Carolina, 1991-92.

Chairperson, State Education Committee, ARC-North Carolina 1991-92.

Board of Directors, Community Mediation Center, Berkeley, California 1985-86.

Community Mediator, Berkeley, California 1984-86.

References: Upon request.