Sociology Department
Richard Lachmann
Professor
Expertise: Comparative/Historical Sociology and Political Sociology
Contact Info:
- rlachmann@albany.edu
- Office: 352 Arts & Sciences Building
- Phone: (518) 442-4661
- Mailing Address:
- 1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences 351
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1983 Ph.D., Harvard University
- 1979 M.A., Harvard University
- 1977 B.A., Princeton University
Recent Research Projects
- The Decline of Dominant Powers: Early Modern Europe and the Contemporary United States -- This project examines the factors that cause the loss of economic and geo-political dominance by hegemonic powers, both historically and in the present-day United States. I am focusing on (1) the sources of state fiscal crises, (2) how decline effects the extent of political democracy, and (3) how geo-political and economic policies are made in dominant and declining states.
- Media Depictions of War Casualties - Americans in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, Israelis in the 1967 Six Day and 2006 Lebanon Wars, and Russians in the Afghan and Second Chechen Wars.
Research Interests
- Comparative/Historical Sociology
- Cultural Sociology
- Economic Sociology
- Political Sociology
- Social Networks
- Development/World Systems
Courses Taught
- SOC 235: Sociological Theory
- SOC 215H: Writing Intensive Seminar on Social Origins of the Modern World
- SOC 441Z: U.S. Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective
- SOC 701: Comparative Historical Sociology
- SOC 701: Political Sociology
