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| Rogers Brubaker | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rogers Brubaker |
| Birth date | 1956 |
| Birth place | New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Sociologist, Author, Professor |
| Employer | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | Columbia University, Harvard University |
| Known for | Work on nationalism, citizenship, migration, ethnicity |
Rogers Brubaker is an American sociologist and scholar known for influential work on nationalism, citizenship, migration, and ethnicity. He holds a prominent academic appointment and has authored several widely cited monographs that bridge comparative sociology, political theory, and historical sociology. Brubaker's scholarship has shaped debates across disciplines and influenced public discourse on nationhood, belonging, and state policies.
Brubaker was born in New York City and completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University where he studied under scholars associated with the New York School of social thought, the intellectual milieu that included figures linked to Paul Krugman, Edward Said, and Hannah Arendt's reception in the United States. He earned a doctorate at Harvard University in the late 1980s, working with advisors whose networks included faculty affiliated with Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Department of Sociology, and comparative historians connected to Fernand Braudel's longue durée perspective. During his formative years he engaged with research communities around Berkeley, Chicago School of Sociology, and European intellectual centers such as Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.
Brubaker has held faculty positions at major research universities including appointments at University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as Professor of Sociology and directed graduate programs linked to the Department of Sociology (UCLA). Earlier positions included roles at Columbia University and visiting fellowships at institutions such as University of Cambridge, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been a member of editorial boards for journals published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and scholarly societies like the American Sociological Association, the European Consortium for Political Research, and the International Sociological Association.
Brubaker's research centers on comparative analyses of nationalism, citizenship, and migration, with substantive work on the politics of identity in contexts including France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, and the United States. He developed influential conceptual distinctions between categories such as "groupism" and more processual accounts of collective identity, drawing on theoretical lineages associated with Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Anthony D. Smith, and the historiographical turn exemplified by E. P. Thompson. His approach integrates methods from comparative historical sociology associated with scholars like Charles Tilly and Theda Skocpol, while engaging debates in political theory influenced by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Michael Walzer. Brubaker has also contributed to migration studies dialogues linked to researchers at Oxford, LSE, and Sciences Po, interrogating policy frameworks such as those emerging from Schengen Agreement implementations and refugee regimes discussed in fora including the United Nations and the European Union.
Brubaker's monographs and edited volumes have been published by leading academic presses including Cambridge University Press and University of Chicago Press. Key works include titles that examine the construction of nationhood and citizenship in post-imperial and post-communist settings, engaging case studies from Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Post-Soviet States. His books interact with scholarship by Ruth Wodak, Michael Mann, Saskia Sassen, Ira Katznelson, and William Connolly, and have been translated in multiple language editions distributed by publishers with global reach such as Routledge and Polity Press. Brubaker has also authored influential journal articles in venues like the American Journal of Sociology, European Journal of Sociology, and Comparative Political Studies.
Brubaker's scholarship has been recognized with fellowships and awards from institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences selection processes, funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation selection committees, and honors from disciplinary associations like the American Sociological Association and the British Sociological Association. He has been a recipient of research fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and has held named lectureships sponsored by universities including Yale University, Princeton University, and Stanford University.
Brubaker's work has been widely cited across literature on nationalism, citizenship, and migration, shaping curricula at departments including Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and interdisciplinary programs at European University Institute and Central European University. Scholars such as Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu's followers, and proponents of constructivist approaches have engaged critically with his arguments, while political commentators at outlets connected to The New York Times, The Guardian, and scholarly platforms at Project Syndicate have drawn on his analyses. His distinctions between modes of belonging and his critique of "groupism" have prompted responses from proponents of identity politics linked to networks around Intersectionality scholars and activists associated with movements in Berlin, Paris, and Budapest.
Brubaker has delivered public lectures and participated in panels at venues including TEDx, the World Economic Forum, and forums hosted by Council on Foreign Relations and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has appeared on broadcasts by BBC, NPR, CNN, and contributed op-eds to publications associated with The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and Le Monde. His public interventions have addressed policy debates on European migration crises, Brexit, and citizenship reforms in debates before parliamentary committees in London, Berlin, and Brussels.
Category:American sociologists Category:Scholars of nationalism Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty