Alan Zuckerman

Professor:
Political Science
Phone: +1 401 863 1576
Phone 2: +1 401 345-4481
Alan_Zuckerman@Brown.EDU

It is with sadness that we inform you of the passing of Alan Zuckerman, Professor of Political Science, this past August. Professor Alan Zuckerman came to Brown University in 1970. For 40 years he devoted himself to his students, his colleagues, and to political science. Alan was passionate, intellectual, intense, funny, brilliant, demanding, a Yankees fan and much larger-than life. He was our friend, our mentor, our teacher, a scholar, and a constant challenge to always aim higher. The members of the department grieve for Alan Zuckerman even as we know that he lives on – not simply in our memory but in everything we achieve. For in a very real sense, we are Alan Zuckerman's legacy.

Biography

ALAN S. ZUCKERMAN is Professor of Political Science.  He has served on the faculty at Brown University since 1970.  Professor Zuckerman received a B.A. (1966) from Brooklyn College (CUNY), and his M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) from Princeton University.

His scholarship has focused on the analytical principles of comparative politics; the social context of political preferences, choice, and behavior; the individual and the state in established democracies; and the political structure of small groups.  He applies diverse methodologies in his work, including field work, abstract analyses, and statistical techniques.


Professor Zuckerman is the author, coauthor, editor, and co-editor of many books with various university presses and numerous articles in the leading journals of political science, as well as monographs in the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Israel. Their diverse topics include the Holocaust, the political cohesion of households, political cleavages, the determinants of political preferences, voting in Israel, the comparative historical analysis of Jewish communities, party factions in Italy and Israel, and party identification. 

His co-authored book, Partisan Families: the Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain (Cambridge University Press) is the winner of the International Society of Political Psychology's Alexander George Award for the best book published in 2007. In 2009, Cambridge will publish a fully revised 2nd edition of Comparative Politics: Rationality, Structure, and Culture, which he co-edits. He also edits the book series, the Social Logic of Politics, at Temple University Press. His current book length project is entitled, From the Depths: Reflections on the Holocaust and Political Evil.

Zuckerman's honors include serving on the faculty at Tel-Aviv University (Visiting Professor and Fulbright Professor); the University of Pisa (Fulbright Fellow), and the University of Florence (Visiting Professor); visiting professor in the Doctoral Program of the Istituto Italiano di Scienza Umane in Florence; research professor, DIW, Berlin; visiting scholar, Center for European Studies, NYU, and Visiting Professor, Center for European Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and most recently Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Interests

Research areas: comparative politics; the social context of political preferences, choice, and behavior; the political structure of small groups; Jewish communties; Israel.

Professor Alan Zuckerman's scholarship focuses on the analytical principles of comparative politics; the social context of political preferences, choice, and behavior; the individual and the state in established democracies; and the political structure of small groups. He applies diverse methodologies in his work, including field work, abstract analyses, and statistical techniques. Professor Zuckerman is the author, coauthor and co-editor of several books, including The Politics of Faction: Christian Democratic Rule in Italy; The Transformation of the Jews; Doing Political Science; Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure; and Politics in Italy: Emerging Themes and Institutional Responses. He has published numerous articles in the leading journals of political science, as well as monographs in the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Israel, on topics as diverse as the Holocaust, the political cohesion of households, political cleavages, the determinants of political preferences, voting in Israel, the comparative historical analysis of Jewish communities, party factions in Italy and Israel, and party identification. His new book examines bounded partisanship in German and British households.

Awards

Recent:

Winner of the International Society for Political Psychology's Alexander George Award for the best book published in 2007.

Lady Davis Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, spring, 2007

Visiting professor, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, spring 2006

Visiting associate, Center for European Studies, New York University, 2005-06

Visiting professor, Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 2006

DIW Research Professor, Das Deutsche Institute für Wirtschastforschung, Berlin, May 2004-07

Chair, Department of Political Science, Brown University, 2002-05

Research fellow, German Socioeconomic Panel, Das Deutsche Institute für Wirtschastforschung, Berlin, June-July 2003

Fellow of the British Academy, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, April-May 2001

Visiting professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florence, spring 2000

Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, winter 2000

Board of Experts, Committee for Research Evaluation (CIVR), Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research (MIUR)

Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Bellagio Center, Revising "Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure," October 2006

Research Fellow, German Socioeconomic Panel, Das Deutsche Institute für Wirtschastforschung, Berlin, June-July 2003

Salomon Faculty Research Award, 2003

Watson Institute for International Studies, grant for research colloquium, "On the Development of Democratic Citizens: Dynamic Processes and Social Contexts in Established Democracies" with Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University Department of Political Science, and Research Group on Politics and Culture, Watson Institute for International Studies; supplemental grants for project on democratic citizenship

Curricular Development Grant, Dean of the College, summer 1996

Wayland Collegium, Brown University, grant for workshop and conference on the transition to political participation among young adults

Watson Institute for International Studies, grant for conference, "Interests, Ideals, and Institutions: The State of Theory in Comparative Politics," May 5-6, 1996

Guastella Fellow, Tel-Aviv University, 1995 (declined)

FIAT Fellowship, University of Turin, February 1993

Senior chair in Political Science, University of Pisa, spring 1991, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Affiliations

Selected:

Vice-President, Organized Section on "Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior, American Political Science Association, 2006-

Vice-President, Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society, Affiliated Group, American Political Science Association, 2007-

Consultant, Republic of Italy, Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) Grants Review Committee

Consultant, Israel Academy of Sciences, Grants Review Committee.

Consultant, Israel Science Foundation, Grants Review Committee

Teaching

Professor Zuckerman's teaching follows closely from his research interests. He offers graduate and undergraduate courses on the principles of political analysis, as well as substantive courses on micro-politics, the individual and the State, and European and Israeli politics.

Funded Research

Conference Grant, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, "Revising 'Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure,'" December 2005 ($15,000)

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