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Glenn Jacobs, PhD

  • Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6262
  • Fax: 617-287-6288
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,04,00005

Areas of Expertise

Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Problems, Sociology of Music and Art, Field Methods

Degrees

PhD, Temple University

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Jorge Capetillo, Glenn Jacobs and Philip Kretsedemas, eds. (Forthcoming). Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective. New York: Routledge.

  • Movahedi, Siamak & Glenn Jacobs. (2012). "Death In The Service Of Life: Individual and Cultural Projections and Practices." In Marcelline Block and Christina Staudt, eds., Unequal before Death, 60-75. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Jacobs, G. (2009). Influence and Canonical Supremacy: An Analysis of How George Herbert Mead Demoted Charles Horton Cooley in the Sociological Canon. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 45 (Spring): 117-144.

  • Jacobs, Glenn (2006). Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality. MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

  • Jacobs, G. (2001). Educational Grievance, Privatization and Latino Mobilization: Chelsea. In C. Hardy-Fanta and J. Gerson (eds.) Latino Political Representation in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies, and Prospects. Garland Publishing Company.

  • Jacobs, Glenn and Ramona Hernandez (2001). Beyond Homeland Politics: Dominicans in Massachusetts. C. Hardy-Fanta and J. Gerson (eds.), Latino Political Representation in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies, and Prospects. Garland Publishing Company.

  • Jacobs, G. (1999). Observations and Queries on Santería: A Report from the Field. The Discourse of Sociological Practice. 1 (Winter): 2-7.

Additional Information

View Professor Jacobs's Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

Urban Latino community-based organizations; head of the Trotter Institute research consortium on immigrant community-based organizations; Afro-Cuban musicians in a Havana barrio.