James L. Nolan

James Nolan

Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology

413-597-2460
Hollander Hall Rm 344

Education

B.A. University of California, Davis (1984)
M.A. University of Virginia (1992)
Ph.D. University of Virginia, Sociology (1995)

Areas of Expertise

MAJOR INTERESTS

Professor Nolan’s teaching and research interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change, and historical comparative sociology. His most recent book,  Atomic Doctors:  Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, was published with Harvard University Press in 2020. His previous books include What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb (2016); Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement (2009); Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement (2001); and The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century’s End (1998). He is the recipient of several grants and awards including National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and a Fulbright scholarship. He has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Loughborough University, and the University of Notre Dame.

 

Current Committees

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