This article is about the sociologist Daniel Levy. For other uses, see
Daniel Levy.
German American sociologist
Daniel Levy (born 1962) is a
German–
Americanpolitical sociologist and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in
sociology and
political science (1986) and a Master of Arts in sociology (1990) from
Tel Aviv University, as well as a Doctorate of sociology from
Columbia University in 1999.[1] He is a specialist on issues relating to
globalization, collective
memory studies, and comparative
historical sociology.[2] Levy, along with the historians
Paul Gootenberg and
Herman Lebovics, is a founder and organizer of the Initiative for Historical Social Science, a program that is run out of Stony Brook with the goal of promoting the "New Historical Social Sciences".[3] He also, along with the
Human Rights scholar and historian
Elazar Barkan, is the founder of the "History, Redress, and Reconciliation" Seminar series at Columbia University. The seminars are an attempt to provide "a forum for interdisciplinary work on issues at the intersection of history, memory, and contemporary politics" focusing particularly on the "redressing [of] past wrongs and gross violations of
human rights."[4]
"Coming Home? Ethnic Germans and the Transformation of National Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany" in
Geddes, Andrew and
Adrian FavellImmigration and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Europe. (Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 1999)
"Refugees, Expellees, and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Social, Political, and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process" in
Rock, David and
Stefan Wolff (eds.) Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. (Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2002)
"The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-Cultural Idiom: The Case of Ethnic German Immigrants" in Levy, Daniel and Yfaat Weiss Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002)
"Institutionalizing the Past: Shifting Memories of Nationhood in German Education and Immigration Legislation" with
Julian Dierkes in
Mueller, Jan Werner (ed.) Memory and Power in International Relations. (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"The Politicization of Ethnic German Immigrants: The Transformation of State Priorities" in
Münz, Rainer and
Rainer Ohliger (eds.) (London: Frank Cass Pub., 2003)
"The Cosmopolitan Figuration: Historicizing Reflexive Modernization" in
Poferl, Angelika and Natan Sznaider (eds.) Ulrich Beck's kosmopolitisches Projekt. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004)
"Holocaust and Social Theory" with Natan Sznaider in
Ritzer, George (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Theory. (New York: Sage, 2004)
"Forgive and Not Forget: Reconciliation Between Forgiveness and Resentment" with Natan Sznaider in Barkan, Elazar and
Alexander Karn (eds.) Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation. (Palo Alto:
Stanford University Press, 2005)
"The Politics of Commemoration: The Holocaust, Memory, and Trauma" with Natan Sznaider in
Delanty, Gerard (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. (New York:
Routledge, 2005)
"Memories of Europe: Cosmopolitanism and its Others" with Natan Sznaider in
Rumford, Chris (ed.) Cosmopolitanism in Europe. (Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2007)
“Vom Holocaust zur kosmopolitischen Erinnerungskultur” with Natan Sznaider in Beck, Ulrich (ed.) Generation Global. (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2007)
"The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience" with Natan Sznaider in
Gerson, Judith M. and
Wolf, Diane L. (eds.) Sociology Confronts the Holocaust. (
Duke University Press, 2007)
"Mechanisms of Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth and Rationality in German Politics". (1997). American Sociological Review. 62: 921–936, with
Jeffrey K. Olick.
"Historical Memory and the Reconfiguration of Collective Boundaries". (1999). Passato e Presente. 47: 31–42.
"The Future of the Past: Historiographical Disputes and Competing Memories in Germany and Israel". (1999). History and Theory. 38 (1): 51–66.
"Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory". (2002). European Journal of Social Theory. 5 (1): 87–106, with Natan Sznaider.
"The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Morality: The Holocaust and Human Rights". (2004). Journal of Human Rights. 3 (2): 143–157, with Natan Sznaider.
"Memories of Universal Victimhood: The Case of Ethnic German Expellees". (2005). German Politics and Society. 23 (2): 1–27., with Natan Sznaider.
“Kosmopolitische Erinnerung und reflexive Modernisierung: Der politische Diskurs der Zwangsarbeitsentschädigung”. (2005). Soziale Welt. 56 (2): 225–246, with Natan Sznaider and Michael Heinlein.
"The Transformation of Sovereignty: Towards a Sociology of Human Rights". (2006). British Journal of Sociology. 57 (4): 657–676., with Natan Sznaider.
"Recursive Cosmopolitanization: Argentina and the Global Human Rights Regime". (2010). British Journal of Sociology. 61 (3): 579–596.
"Reflexive Particularism and Cosmopolitanization: The Reconfiguration of the National". (2011). Global Networks. 11 (2): 139–159, with
Michael Heinlein and
Lars Breuer.
Book reviews
The Israeli Diaspora by
Steven J. Gold. (2005). International Migration Review. 38: 789.
Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities in Post–Reunification Germany edited by
Richard D. Alba,
Peter Schmidt, and
Martina Wasmer. (2005). H-Net German.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq by
Eric Davis. (2006). Contemporary Sociology. 35 (1): 62–63.
^"Daniel Levy". Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights website. March 2010. Archived from
the original on October 8, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
This article is about the sociologist Daniel Levy. For other uses, see
Daniel Levy.
German American sociologist
Daniel Levy (born 1962) is a
German–
Americanpolitical sociologist and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook. Levy earned a Bachelor of Arts in
sociology and
political science (1986) and a Master of Arts in sociology (1990) from
Tel Aviv University, as well as a Doctorate of sociology from
Columbia University in 1999.[1] He is a specialist on issues relating to
globalization, collective
memory studies, and comparative
historical sociology.[2] Levy, along with the historians
Paul Gootenberg and
Herman Lebovics, is a founder and organizer of the Initiative for Historical Social Science, a program that is run out of Stony Brook with the goal of promoting the "New Historical Social Sciences".[3] He also, along with the
Human Rights scholar and historian
Elazar Barkan, is the founder of the "History, Redress, and Reconciliation" Seminar series at Columbia University. The seminars are an attempt to provide "a forum for interdisciplinary work on issues at the intersection of history, memory, and contemporary politics" focusing particularly on the "redressing [of] past wrongs and gross violations of
human rights."[4]
"Coming Home? Ethnic Germans and the Transformation of National Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany" in
Geddes, Andrew and
Adrian FavellImmigration and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Europe. (Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 1999)
"Refugees, Expellees, and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic of Germany: Social, Political, and Legal Dimensions of the Integration Process" in
Rock, David and
Stefan Wolff (eds.) Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic. (Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2002)
"The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-Cultural Idiom: The Case of Ethnic German Immigrants" in Levy, Daniel and Yfaat Weiss Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002)
"Institutionalizing the Past: Shifting Memories of Nationhood in German Education and Immigration Legislation" with
Julian Dierkes in
Mueller, Jan Werner (ed.) Memory and Power in International Relations. (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"The Politicization of Ethnic German Immigrants: The Transformation of State Priorities" in
Münz, Rainer and
Rainer Ohliger (eds.) (London: Frank Cass Pub., 2003)
"The Cosmopolitan Figuration: Historicizing Reflexive Modernization" in
Poferl, Angelika and Natan Sznaider (eds.) Ulrich Beck's kosmopolitisches Projekt. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004)
"Holocaust and Social Theory" with Natan Sznaider in
Ritzer, George (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Theory. (New York: Sage, 2004)
"Forgive and Not Forget: Reconciliation Between Forgiveness and Resentment" with Natan Sznaider in Barkan, Elazar and
Alexander Karn (eds.) Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation. (Palo Alto:
Stanford University Press, 2005)
"The Politics of Commemoration: The Holocaust, Memory, and Trauma" with Natan Sznaider in
Delanty, Gerard (ed.) Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. (New York:
Routledge, 2005)
"Memories of Europe: Cosmopolitanism and its Others" with Natan Sznaider in
Rumford, Chris (ed.) Cosmopolitanism in Europe. (Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2007)
“Vom Holocaust zur kosmopolitischen Erinnerungskultur” with Natan Sznaider in Beck, Ulrich (ed.) Generation Global. (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2007)
"The Cosmopolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience" with Natan Sznaider in
Gerson, Judith M. and
Wolf, Diane L. (eds.) Sociology Confronts the Holocaust. (
Duke University Press, 2007)
"Mechanisms of Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth and Rationality in German Politics". (1997). American Sociological Review. 62: 921–936, with
Jeffrey K. Olick.
"Historical Memory and the Reconfiguration of Collective Boundaries". (1999). Passato e Presente. 47: 31–42.
"The Future of the Past: Historiographical Disputes and Competing Memories in Germany and Israel". (1999). History and Theory. 38 (1): 51–66.
"Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory". (2002). European Journal of Social Theory. 5 (1): 87–106, with Natan Sznaider.
"The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Morality: The Holocaust and Human Rights". (2004). Journal of Human Rights. 3 (2): 143–157, with Natan Sznaider.
"Memories of Universal Victimhood: The Case of Ethnic German Expellees". (2005). German Politics and Society. 23 (2): 1–27., with Natan Sznaider.
“Kosmopolitische Erinnerung und reflexive Modernisierung: Der politische Diskurs der Zwangsarbeitsentschädigung”. (2005). Soziale Welt. 56 (2): 225–246, with Natan Sznaider and Michael Heinlein.
"The Transformation of Sovereignty: Towards a Sociology of Human Rights". (2006). British Journal of Sociology. 57 (4): 657–676., with Natan Sznaider.
"Recursive Cosmopolitanization: Argentina and the Global Human Rights Regime". (2010). British Journal of Sociology. 61 (3): 579–596.
"Reflexive Particularism and Cosmopolitanization: The Reconfiguration of the National". (2011). Global Networks. 11 (2): 139–159, with
Michael Heinlein and
Lars Breuer.
Book reviews
The Israeli Diaspora by
Steven J. Gold. (2005). International Migration Review. 38: 789.
Germans or Foreigners? Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities in Post–Reunification Germany edited by
Richard D. Alba,
Peter Schmidt, and
Martina Wasmer. (2005). H-Net German.
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq by
Eric Davis. (2006). Contemporary Sociology. 35 (1): 62–63.
^"Daniel Levy". Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights website. March 2010. Archived from
the original on October 8, 2013. Retrieved May 16, 2011.