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Gregory McLauchlan

Associate Professor

Address:
634 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Phone: (541) 346-5028
Fax: (541) 346-5026
Email: gmclauch@uoregon.edu

Professor McLauchlan served as president of the University Senate. His current research focuses on relationships between globalization, community economic development, and environmental sustainability. He combines sociology with journalism in writing frequent op-ed columns for newspapers.

Research Interests

  • relationships between states, military structures, and social systems
  • war, peace, and international security
  • community economic development
        

Teaching Areas

  • political sociology
  • historical sociology
  • science, technology, and environment
  • urban sociology

Courses Taught

SOC 207 Social Inequality
SOC 442 Urbanization and the City
SOC 465 Political Sociology

Selected Books

"Citizen Canines: How Community Activists Watchdog Transnational Corporations, Polluters, Government Bureaucrats, Land Speculators and Other Threats to Livability." (Book manuscript)

Selected Articles

1997 "World War II and the Transformation of the U.S. State: The Wartime Foundations of U.S. Hegemony" Sociological Inquiry 1997, 67, 1, winter, 1-26.

1996 "Nuclear Politics on the Pacific Rim." Peace Review 1996, 8, 2, June, 283-288.

1996 "Planning United States Hegemony: Expansion and Intra-State Conflict over Postwar World Organization in World War II" Political Power and Social Theory 1996, 10, 39-92.

Education

Ph.D. -- California, Berkeley