Robert S. Jansen

Department of Sociology
Michigan Society of Fellows
University of Michigan

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Robert Jansen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2009, where he completed a dissertation on populist politics and was a Mellon Fellow in Latin American Sociology. His research interests include political sociology, social movements, nationalism, ethnicity, culture, and collective memory.

Robert S. Jansen
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
4209 LSA Building
500 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382

Email: rsjansen@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 763-0078
Fax: (734) 763-6887

Dissertation

Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective. (2009) [ abstract ]


Recent Work

"Jurassic Technology? Sustaining Presumptions of Intersubjectivity in a Disruptive Environment." Theory and Society 37(2): 127-159. (April 2008) [ abstract | full text | project ]

"Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures." American Journal of Sociology 112(4): 953-1007. (January 2007) [ abstract | full text | supplement | project ]