Daniel Levy

Professor

Ph.D. Columbia Univeristy, 1999

Areas of Interest

Political Sociology, Memory Studies, Comparative Historical Sociology, Globalization, Human Rights

Bio

As a political sociologist he is interested in issues of globalization, collective memory studies and comparative-historical sociology. Together with Natan Sznaider he published The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age (Temple University Press, 2005). He has been exploring the global diffusion of rights norms and their impact on questions of nation-state legitimacy. The result of this research is a monograph entitled Human Rights and Memory(Penn State University Press, 2010). He is also co-editor of The Collective Memory Reader (with Jeffrey Olick and Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Oxford University Press, 2011). From 2006 to 2011 he has served as an editor for the Rose Series, a joint publication from the American Sociological Association and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is co-founder of an interdisciplinary Initiative for Historical Social Sciences. In 2009 he co-founded the Columbia University Seminar on 'History, Redress and Reconciliation', which he is co-chairing with Elazar Barkan. His interest in memory studies is also reflected in the Memory Studies Bank, which serves as a virtual bibliographic repository for the field of memory studies.

Selected Publications

Nedelcheva, Dafina and Daniel Levy. Civilizational mnemonics and the longue durée: The Bulgarian Case. 2022. Memory Studies 21(1): 1-27

“Memory Practices and Theory in a Global Age” Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, Gerard Delanty and Stephen Turner (eds.) Routledge. Pp: 501-511

Levy, Daniel. 2020. “Traumatism and the Changing of Temporal Figurations” Social Research International Quarterly 87(3): 565-590.

Levy, Daniel. 2020. “Catastrophic Teleologies and Contemporary Memory Cultures” Soziale Gedächtnisse der Katastrophe Oliver Dimbath and Michael Heinlein (eds.) Berlin: Spring VS. pp: 389-404.

Levy, Daniel. 2020. Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft (2020) Kick and Run. Memoir with Soccer Ball, Jonathan Wilson Bloomsbury Reader. 2013.