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  1. the University of California, Berkeley

    Walter A. McDougall (associate professor of history)

  2. Tel Aviv University, USA

    Gershon Shafir (assistant professor of sociology)

  3. the University of Toronto, Canada

    Edward Shorter (professor of history)

  4. the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, USA

    I. William Zartman (professor of international politics and director of African Studies)

  5. Fordham University, USA

    James R. Kelly (professor of sociology and director of the Pastoral Planning and Research Program)

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His latest book. The Heavens and the Earth. A Political History of the Space Age,received the Pulitzer Prize for history and has been nominated for the American Book Award.

His research interests include Israeli nationalism, the renewal of the Hebrew language, and the work of Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci.

His publications include Strikes in France,coauthored with Charles Tilly; The Making of the Modern Family; A History of Women’s Bodies:and Bedside Manners: The Troubled History of Doctors and Patients.

He is author of Ripe for Revolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africaand editor of Positive Sum: Improving North-South Negotiations.

He is a former vice president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and book review editor of Review of Religious Research.His work has been published in Sociological Analysis, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Commonweal,and America.

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McDougall, W.A., Shafir, G., Shorter, E. et al. Books in review. Society 24, 88–96 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695530

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