Faculty of the Department of Sociology

Richard Lachmann

Professor
Sociology of Culture and Comparative/Historical Sociology

Richard Lachmann

Office: 360 Arts & Sciences

Mailing Address:
1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences 351
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222

Phone: (518) 442-4682
E-mail: r.lachmann@albany.edu
Full C.V.: Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 1983 Ph.D., Harvard University
• 1979 M.A., Harvard University
• 1977 B.A., Princeton University

Research Interests

• Collective Behavior/Social Movements
• Comparative/Historical Sociology
• Cultural Sociology
• Economic Sociology
• History of Sociology/Social Thought
• Political Sociology
• Social Networks
• Sociological Theory
• Development/World Systems
• Religion
  

Courses Taught

• SOC210: Sociology of Culture
• SOC235: Sociological Theory
• SOC215H: Writing Intensive Seminar on Social Origins of the Modern World
• SOC441W: U.S. Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective
• SOC535: Qualitative Research Techniques
• SOC701: Comparative Historical Sociology
• SOC701: Comparative Historical Studies of the State in the First and Third Worlds