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American Professors in Tehran for Occupy Wall Street Conference

Heather Gautney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. She has authored books and articles on politics and a variety of social movements, including Occupy Wall Street, the Alternative Globalization Movement, the Anti-Iraq War Movement, and the World Social Forum. Current research projects include (1) Occupy Wall Street, and (2) current economic trends in the film industry and their implications for the future of labor market regulation in entertainment and beyond. Dr. Gautney is a member of the Social Text collective (see Social Text) and the Advisory Board of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center (see The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics). For a review of Dr. Gautney's current research, click here.

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Alex S. Vitale Department of Sociology Brooklyn College Education 2001: Ph.D. Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 1989: BA, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

2007 PSC CUNY Grant: Neoliberalism and the Emergence of New Social Control Practices in Global Cities
2004 New York Civil Liberties Union: Protecting Protest Project
2002 Brooklyn College Unsponsored Research Grant: Evaluating the Community Justice Model
2001 PSC CUNY Grant: Evaluating the Community Justice Model
Books City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics. New York: New York University Press. 2008 Gaston Donate, Corey Robin, Roberta Satow, and Alex Vitale eds. People, Power, and Politics. New York: Pearson. 2002.

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Dude has written a few dozen articles. Now, where is your resume?

I know dozen of PhD's in engineering who've written tons of papers, and some of those were idiots. Maybe you get a tingling up your leg when you meet a PhD, but I don't. There is one that works in my office. Being a member of societies, getting govt grants and writing lots of papers doesn't guarantee an impressive individual.
 
I know dozen of PhD's in engineering who've written tons of papers, and some of those were idiots. Maybe you get a tingling up your leg when you meet a PhD, but I don't. There is one that works in my office. Being a member of societies, getting govt grants and writing lots of papers doesn't guarantee an impressive individual.


Moreover, comparing an "expert's" credentials to that of the OP who is merely expressing an opinion is disingenuous and accomplished nothing. If the poster held themselves out to be an expert in the same field as the professor and questioned the professor's qualifications then, perhaps, the inclusion of credentials may be germane to the topic. No one in this thread questioned the professor's credentials, they only questioned their actions and that is where it should have stayed. Clearly that post was an attempt to garner an emotional reaction rather than elicit a thoughtful, intelligent response.
 
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