CSI : Erik Olin Wright

ERIK OLIN WRIGHT is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Among his various honors at Wisconsin, he has received the Romnes Fellowship, the C. Wright Mills Distinguished Professor Award, the John D. MacArthur Professorship, the Vilas Distinguished Research Professorship, and the University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Wright came to Wisconsin from the University of California - Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. (Sociology, 1976). He has also been trained in History at Oxford, Social Studies at Harvard, and Unitarian Universalism at Starr King School for the Ministry.

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Research Interests
Dr. Wright is one of the leading scholars of Marxian class analysis. He is the author of seven books on social class, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean, and the book series editor of the Real Utopias Project at Verso. His most recent monograph, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge, 1997), won an honorable mention for Distinguished Publications from the American Sociological Association. In the last five years, his articles and essays have appeared in American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, Politics and Society, International Journal of Health Services, New Left Review, Contemporary Sociology, and American Journal of Sociology as well as various edited volumes.

Dr. Wright is currently working on several projects. Together with Michael Burawoy, he is writing a short book on the sociological foundations of Marxism. He is editing two volumes: Deepening Democracy, volume IV of the Real Utopias series, which contains case studies of attempts to establish "empowered participatory democracy;" and Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, which assembles foundational statements about class analysis from various theoretical perspectives. Dr. Wright is also working on a "moral audit" of institutions in America and an empirical analysis of job expansion in the 1990s.


Erik Olin Wright personal site		ERIK OLIN WRIGHT is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Among his various honors at Wisconsin, he has received the Romnes Fellowship, the C. Wright Mills Distinguished Professor Award, the John D. MacArthur Professorship, the Vilas Distinguished Research Professorship, and the University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Wright came to Wisconsin from the University of California - Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. (Sociology, 1976). He has also been trained in History at Oxford, Social Studies at Harvard, and Unitarian Universalism at Starr King School for the Ministry. --- Research Interests Dr. Wright is one of the leading scholars of Marxian class analysis. He is the author of seven books on social class, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean, and the book series editor of the Real Utopias Project at Verso. His most recent monograph, Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge, 1997), won an honorable mention for Distinguished Publications from the American Sociological Association. In the last five years, his articles and essays have appeared in American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, Politics and Society, International Journal of Health Services, New Left Review, Contemporary Sociology, and American Journal of Sociology as well as various edited volumes. Dr. Wright is currently working on several projects. Together with Michael Burawoy, he is writing a short book on the sociological foundations of Marxism. He is editing two volumes: Deepening Democracy, volume IV of the Real Utopias series, which contains case studies of attempts to establish "empowered participatory democracy;" and Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, which assembles foundational statements about class analysis from various theoretical perspectives. Dr. Wright is also working on a "moral audit" of institutions in America and an empirical analysis of job expansion in the 1990s.