Jason Kaufman
 
I am a writer, critic, and teacher. For nearly a decade, I taught politics and popular culture in Sociology Department at Harvard University. I am now an NSF-funded research science fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. I have published books and articles about a wide variety of topics, from secret societies and civic associations to AIDS preventive policy and anti-discrimination law. Much of my work is historical, often with a political bent. I have explored why cricket is less popular than baseball in Canada, for example, and the origins of US government support for paramilitary organizations and civilian gun clubs. I recently authored a book about why politics are so different in the United States and Canada, and also in Vermont and New Hampshire. I am Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded project on American youth culture and social behavior; we’re studying quantitative social network data pooled from Facebook.com profiles over 4 years. I am also writing an historical novel about the secession movement in Civil War New York City. There are links to these and other projects and publications on this website.  Curriculum vitae July, 2009 kaufman.cv.11.23.09.pdfhttp://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/http://www.amazon.com/Common-Good-American-Golden-Fraternity/dp/0195148584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235159073&sr=1-1http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Canadian-American-Political-Differences/dp/0674031369/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235158797&sr=1-2http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/t3JASON KAUFMAN_files/kaufman.cv.11.23.09.pdfshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5