Kevin B. Anderson


Kevin B. Anderson is a California-based sociologist and Marxist humanist. He is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He was previously Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb and Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Women’s Studies at Purdue University. He attended Tenafly High School and attained a BA in History from Trinity College and an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. His dissertation was on Lenin’s reception of Hegel’s dialectics, which was later published as Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism from the University of Illinois Press.

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He was involved in the international project of the complete works of Marx and Engels and working especially on Volume IV/27, which contains a significant amount of the late Marx’s notebooks on non-Western and precapitalist societies.
He has also written widely on Marxist theory, Foucault, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary developments in the U.S. and Europe. Anderson obtained American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and International Erich Fromm Prize in 1996 and 2000 respectively, and National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant in 2001.
His Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology won the International Erich Fromm Prize from the International Erich Fromm Society in Tübingen, Germany in 2000. More recently, his book Marx at the Margins won Paul Sweezy Book Award from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association in 2011. In addition, his Foucault and the Iranian Revolution co-authored with Janet Afary was awarded with the Latifeh Yarshater Award for the Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies in 2006.
In the American Sociological Association, he has also served as Chair of the Section on Marxist Sociology, as a Council Member of the Sections on Theory and on the History of Sociology, and as a member of the W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Selection Committee.
Anderson is married to Janet Afary, a fellow proffesor at UCSB.

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Monographs