David John FrankProfessor and Chair, Sociology |
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Academic Distinctions |
Best Scholarly Article Award, ASA’s Section on Global & Transnational Sociology (2011) Elected to the Sociological Research Association (2011) |
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| Appointments |
American Bar Foundation Visiting Scholar (2009-10) Spencer Foundation Residential Fellowship (2007-08) National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-99) |
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Research Abstract |
WORKS IN PROGRESS: I. Book The University as Sacred Canopy: Constituting the Global Knowledge Society (with J. W. Meyer). An examination of the worldwide explosion in university curricula and enrollments 1900 to the present, arguing that both trends represent globalization-fueled extensions of core Modern cultural assumptions: that nature operates according to universalistic, integrated, and rational rules and that humans can discover, know, and learn how to use such rules through rational endeavors. Explored with longitudinal and comparative data from university course catalogs, directories, and yearbooks. II. Articles & Chapters “The Global Expansion of Environmental Education in Universities” (with Karen J. Robinson and Jared Olesen). Revised and resubmitted to Comparative Education Review. “NGOs, INGOs, and Social Change: Environmental Policy Reform in the Developing World, 1970-1995” (with Wes Longhofer and Evan Schofer). Paper presented at the American Sociological Association. “Cross-National Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005.” “Higher Education and Quality of Life” (with Karen J. Robinson). |
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| Publications |
I. Book Frank, David John, and Jay Gabler. 2006. Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. II. Articles & Chapters Robinson, Karen Jeong, and David John Frank. Forthcoming. “Higher Education: Institutional Effects.” Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research, edited by A. C. Michalos. New York, NY: Springer. Frank, David John. 2012. “Sex.” Pp. 1843-6 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by G. Ritzer. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell. Frank, David John. 2012. “Making Sense of LGBT Asylum Claims: Change and Variation in Institutional Contexts.” Journal of International Law and Politics 44 (Winter): 485-95. Schofer, Evan, Ann Hironaka, David John Frank, and Wes Longhofer. 2012. “Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” Pp. 57-68 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by E. Amenta, K. Nash, and A. Scott. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell. Frank, David John, Karen Jeong Robinson, and Jared Olesen. 2011. “The Global Expansion of Environmental Education in Universities.” Comparative Education Review 55 (November): 546-73. Frank, David John, Bayliss J. Camp, and Steven A. Boutcher. 2010. “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 75 (December): 867-93. Frank, David John, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp. 2009. “The Repeal of Sodomy Laws from a World-Society Perspective.” Pp. 123-41 in Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law, edited by S. Barclay, M. Bernstein, and A.-M. Marshall. New York, NY: New York University Press. Frank, David John, Tara Hardinge, and Kassia Wosick-Correa. 2009. “The Global Dimensions of Rape-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes.” American Sociological Review 74 (April): 272-90. Frank, David John, Wesley Longhofer, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (August): 275-95. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “University Expansion and the Knowledge Society.” Theory and Society 36 (August): 287-311. (To be translated and reprinted La Educación en la Sociedad Mundial: Teoría Institucional y Agenda de Investigación de los Systemas Educativos Contemporáneos, edited by M. Pereyra. Barcelona, Spain: Octaedro, 2010.) Meyer, John W., Francisco O. Ramirez, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “Higher Education as an Institution.” Pp. 187-221 in Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts, edited by P. J. Gumport. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Frank, David John. 2007. “Ecology and Economy.” Pp. 1289-91 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University.” Pp. 19-44 in Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions, edited by G. Krücken, A. Kosmützky, and M. Torka. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript-Verlag. Gabler, Jay, and David John Frank. 2005. “The Natural Sciences in the University: Change and Variation over the 20th Century.” Sociology of Education 78 (July): 183-206. Frank, David John. 2002. “The Origins Question: Building Institutions to Protect Nature.” Pp. 41-56 in Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives, edited by A. Hoffman and M. J. Ventresca. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2002. “The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Post-War Period.” Sociological Theory 20 (March): 86-105. (Reprinted pp. 296-319 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.) Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “Environmentalism as a Global Institution” (reply). American Sociological Review 65 (February): 122-7. (Reprinted pp. 461-66 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.) Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 65 (February): 96-116. (Reprinted pp. 435-55 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.) Frank, David John, Suk-Ying Wong, John W. Meyer, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 2000. “What Counts as History: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula.” Comparative Education Review 44 (February): 29-53. Frank, David John. 1999. “The Social Bases of Environmental Treaty Ratification, 1900-1990.” Sociological Inquiry 69 (Fall): 523-50. Frank, David John, and Elizabeth H. McEneaney. 1999. “The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same-Sex Sexual Relations, 1984-1995.” Social Forces 77 (March): 911-44. Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, John W. Meyer, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1999. “The Rationalization and Organization of Nature in World Culture.” Pp. 81-99 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Barrett, Deborah, and David John Frank. 1999. “Population Control for National Development: From World Discourse to National Policies.” Pp. 198-221 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Frank, David John. 1997. “Science, Nature, and the Globalization of the Environment, 1870-1990.” Social Forces 76 (December): 409-35. (Reprinted pp. 249-70 in The Environment and Society Reader, edited by R. S. Frey. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.) (Reprinted in Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, edited by D. Inglis. London, England: Routledge, 2005.) Meyer, John W., David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1997. “The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.” International Organization 51 (Autumn): 623-51. (Translated and reprinted pp. 235-75 in John W. Meyer: Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen, edited by G. Krücken. Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2005.) (Reprinted pp. 222-50 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.) Frank, David John, John W. Meyer, and David Miyahara. 1995. “The Individualist Polity and the Centrality of Professionalized Psychology: A Cross-National Study.” American Sociological Review 60 (June): 360-77. Frank, David John, Evan Schofer, and John Charles Torres. 1994. “Rethinking History: Change in the University Curriculum, 1910-90.” Sociology of Education 67 (October): 231-42. |
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