Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin is the author of ten previously published books, including: Letters to a Young Activist; Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars; The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Inside Prime Time; The Whole World Is Watching; Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (co-author); two novels, Sacrifice and The Murder of Albert Einstein; and a book of poetry, Busy Being Born. These books have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. He also edited Watching Television and Campfires of the Resistance.
In January 2006, Columbia University Press published a book of his essays
entitled The Intellectuals and the Flag.
He has contributed to many books and published widely in general periodicals
(The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco
Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Globe, Dissent, The Nation,
Wilson Quarterly, Harper's, American Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism
Review, The American Prospect, et al.), online magazines (Salon.com, openDemocracy.net),
and scholarly journals (Theory and Society, Journal of Communication,
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, et al.). He is on the editorial
board of Dissent, a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and the North
American editor of openDemocracy.net.He is a regular contributor to the
blog TPMcafe.com.
He
has been a columnist at the New York Observer and the San Francisco Examiner.
His poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Yale Review,
and The New Republic.
In 2000, Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for books on Jewish
themes. The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams were Notable Books
in the New York Times Book Review. Inside Prime Time received the nonfiction
award of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association; The Sixties was a finalist
for that award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
He holds degrees from Harvard University (mathematics), the University
of Michigan (political science), and the University of California, Berkeley
(sociology). He was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society,
in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project
in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstration
against the Vietnam War. During 1968-69, he was an editor and writer for
the San Francisco Express Times, and through 1970 wrote widely for the
underground press. He is presently a member of the board of directors
of Greenpeace USA.
He was for sixteen years a professor of sociology and director of the
mass communications program at the University of California, Berkeley,
and for seven years a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at
New York University. During 1994-95, he held the chair in American Civilization
at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
He has been a resident at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy and the Djerassi
Foundation in Woodside, California, a fellow at the Media Studies Center,
and a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Oslo, and
the University of Toronto. He is now a professor of journalism and sociology
at Columbia University.
He lectures frequently on culture and politics in the United States and
abroad (Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Russia,
Greece, Turkey, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico, Morocco). He
has appeared on many National Public Radio programs including Fresh Air
as well as PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN. He currently lives in New York City.
(from http://www.toddgitlin.net/)
