Mark C. Kennedy, Sociologist, Emeritus Professor
The American University in Cairo, Ret.
Please Contact CCPI to communicate with Mr. Kennedy.
EDUCATION
Ph.D SUNY Buffalo, Sociology, 1968
M.A. University of Texas, Austin, Sociology, 1953
B.A. University of Texas, Sociology, History, 1951
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, ACADEMIC
Professorships
Visiting Scholar, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA., 1994
Adjunct Professor, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland OR 1990-91.
Lecturer, Southern OregonState College 1991.
Professor Emeritus, The American University in Cairo, 1988 to present, continuous association.
Professor American University in Cairo, 1982 to 1988.
Visiting Professorships: Sociology, University of Calgary, Alberta,
1983 Sabbatical Year.
Visiting Professor, University of Calgary, Summer 1986, [public lectures and teaching--development issues].
Visiting Professor, Calgary, Summer 1984, Faculty of Social Welfare.
Development Issues.
Associate Professorships
The American University in Cairo, 1970-1982
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 1975, Sabbatical leave.
Adjunct Professor, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Summer, 1977.
Assistant Professorships
The American University in Cairo, 1969-1970
The University of Vermont, Burlington, 1965-1969
Memphis State University, Memphis, TN, 1957-1959
Lecturer or Instructor; Fellow
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1961-1965
Tulane University, Summers of 1956 and 1957.
Teaching Fellow, University of Texas, 1952; Tulane
University, 1955-1957
RESEARCH POSITIONS AND PROJECTS
Principal Investigator for project: "Egypt and the Paris Club", looking at the debt crisis in Egypt and other developing countries--financed by The Ford Foundation, January 1989 to 1991.
Co-Investigator with Curt Griffith of Simon Fraser University for project: "Delinquency and Social Control in Rural and Urban Egypt", financed by the Canada Council, 1981-1984.
Team Methodologist for pilot project: "Housing and Cairo's Poor". Social Research Center, American University in Cairo. For US AID [RFP].
Director of The Research Division of the Memphis and Shelby County Planning Council, Tennessee, 1959-1961. Some 28 urban, action-research studies conducted in such areas as: Group Work and Recreation, Community Health and Medicine, Family Welfare, Delinquency and Ethnicity.
Research Associate, Gailor Psychiatric Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, for Project: "Culture and Mental Illness Study. "With Doctors Alan Battle, and Theodore May, 1958-1959.
OTHER RESEARCH
Survey of social science surveys with Midiha el Safty and Monte Palmer, American University in Cairo, 1984-85. See publications list.
Longitudinal survey of AUC's graduating seniors and alumni for Long Range Planning Committee, 1982-1982.
Historical Research on criminal law transformation in Kamel Ataturk's Turkey, 1980-1981.
Survey of Sunni Moslem Laws in the four texts: Hanifi, Maliki, Shafi, and Hanbali. Ideal- typical composite, reached, 1975-1980.
Historical documents survey of the impact of colonial criminal laws on native societies of Africa south of the Sahara, 1979-1985.
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK
Editor and one of several founders of The Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1977-1982. Quarterly: Monographic studies, Middle East issues.
Chairman of Editorial Board of Cairo Papers, 1977-1982.
Chairman, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, American University In Cairo, 1977-1979.
Director of The Research Division of the Health and Welfare Planning Council of Memphis and Shelby County, 1959-61.
COMMITTEE WORK
The scope here is typical of university committee work in the service of the several universities mentioned above. For example: Graduate and Undergraduate Committees; Budget Review Committee; Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee; Personnel Policies and Practices Committee; Academic Board--1969 through 1980. Also I have served on 35 M.A. thesis committees with more than half of them as thesis committee chairman--1966 to 1989.
EDITORSHIPS AND READERSHIPS
Guest Editor, Cairo Papers in Social Science, Special Issue on Twenty Years of Change in Egypt, 1977-1997
Editor, The Cairo Papers In Social Science, 1977-1982.
Referee, Social Problems, 1975-82.
Reviewer for A.U.C. Press Publications, 1969-88.
Associate Editor, International Review of Modern Sociology; International Journal of Sociology and the Family, 1971-1982.
Editor and Co-founder, Catalyst, a journal of social issues, c. 1963-1969.
Guest Editor, International Review of Modern Sociology, Special Issue on Middle Easter Sociology, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1981. International Journal of Sociology and the Family, Special Issue on Middle Eastern Families. Social Problems, a special issue on the impact of transnational corporations on Third World nations; focus on Egypt.
PUBLICATIONS
"Dilemmas in Middle Eastern Social Science: Contours of the Problem of Relevance of Western Paradigms as Guides to Research, Policy and Practices," in Earl L. Sullivan and Jacqueline Ismael [eds.], The Contemporary Study of the Arab World. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1991.
Law and Society: A Critical Perspective. with T. Caputo, C. Reasons, and A. Brannigan. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
"Law and Capitalist Development: The Colonization of Sub-Saharan Africa", Law and Society: a Critical Review, Harcourt Brace, as above, 1989.
"The New Global Network of Corporate Power and the Decline of National Self-Determination," Contemporary Crises, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1988.
An Analytical Index of Social Research in Egypt,
Vol. 8, Monographs 1 and 2 of Cairo Papers in Social Science, with Midiha el Safty and Monte Palmer, 1985.
"Are We Out of Gas?" a review essay of Hamied Ansari's Egypt: The Stalled Society, 1987.
"Dialectical Structuralism?" Review essay of K. Calavita's U.S. Immigration Laws as a Control upon Labor 1820-1924. In Contemporary Crises, March, 1987.
"The Luria-Nebraska and Halstead-Reitan Neurological Test Batteries: A Cross-Cultural Study in English and Arabic," with Mona el-Sheikh, Susan el-Nagdy, and Brenda Townes, Intern. Jl.of Neuroscience, Vol. 32:757-764, 1987.
"Egyptian Youth and Justice Systems: A Rural-Urban Comparison," in Cairo Papers in Social Science, Special issue by Richard Lobban entitled, Urban Research Strategies for Egypt, 1983.
A Survey of Alumni and Graduating Seniors of A.U.C. a monograph prepared for the American University in Cairo's Long Range Planning Committee, June 1983.
"The Problem of Relevance of Western Sociology in Middle Eastern Societies," International Review of Modern Sociology, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 1982.
"Middle Eastern Families in Transitional Societies, International Journal of Sociology and the Family, June 1982.
"Open Doors, Transnational Corporations and the Global Division of Labor, Social Problems, April, 1981.
"Lawyers and Social Scientists in Search of a Role in Societal Development," Cairo Papers, April, 1979.
"Exploration into Plausibility: Critique of Perry Anderson's Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Catalyst, Fall 1977.
"A Social Philosophy for Rehabilitation," National Review of Criminal Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1973.
"Through the Looking Glass: How Psychiatry Sees its Political Role," Catalyst, September, 1972.
"Beyond Incrimination: Some Neglected Facets in the Theory of Punishment," Catalyst, December, 1968. Also in Chamblis and Mankoff (eds.) Whose Law, What Order, John Wiley, 1975; and in C. Reasons, The Criminologist, c. 1978.
"Is There an Ecology of Mental Illness?" International Journal of Social Psychiatry. Vol. 10, No. 2, 1964.
WORK IN PROGRESS: a. Dilemmas of the Ruling Classes in the Arab World. b. Security Police and Single Party Rule: Who Minds the Store?
COURSES TAUGHT
Social Institutions
Social Conflict
Social Stratification
Social Movements
Sociology of Law
Criminology
Research Techniques
Methodology
Sociology of Knowledge
Sociological theory
Sociology of Work
Industrial Sociology
Arab Societies
Social Development Problems in
Third World' Political Economies.
CURRENT INTERESTS
A. Dilemmas of the Ruling Classes in the Arab World.`
B. The unprecedented changes in Western and Third World societies since World War II, involving the globalization of national political economies, the new global network of corporate power, and the transformation of national political economies via debt and semi-imposed structural adjustments.
C. The Banking Community and The Transformation of Command Political Economies: The Role of Banks in Structural Transformation of Nations.
D. Ongoing local lectures and discussion for various church memberships to countervail growing negative attitudes toward Muslims.
REFERENCES *
William Chambliss, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
Richard Colvard, Professor of Sociology. Southern Or. State College, Ret. 522 Admiral Point, Hiawassee, Ga., 30546
Dan Tschirgi, Professor of Political Science, Political Science Department, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Tareq Ismael, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Glenn Goodwin, Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College.
Sidney Willhelm, Professor of Sociology. 720 Airport Blvd. #56, Austin TX 78207
*[NB: Updated addresses of some of these persons will follow as soon as possible.] `
