Robert Spiegelman

Email: [email protected]

Office: Dealy 408B
Phone: 718-817-3831
Fax: 718-817-3846

  • BA in Philosophy, Queens College City University of New York
    MA in Philosophy, University of Michigan
    PhD in Sociology, City University of New York

  • Historical Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Communications Media and Cinema Studies; Social Theory; Indigenous Perspectives; Race and Minority Perspectives

  • “Full Circle: History and Nature in the Syracuse/Onondaga Region.” Fall 2009. Indigenousvalues.org.

    “From Laois to America & Back: A Transnational Bonanza of One’s Own.”Laois Heritage Journal, 2008.

    “The Adairs of Donegal: Towards a Transatlantic Game Plan,” Parts1 & 2. Donegal Annual 2007 and 2008

    “’In Memoriam’: From Landscapes of Martyrdom to Sites of Conscience.” Proceedings of the Northeastern Native Peoples & The American Revolutionary Era. By Meshantucket Pequot Museum, 2008.

    “In Sullivan-Clinton’s Wake: What’s Remembered and What’s Forgotten, or How and Why Its Scholarship Still Matters,” Chemung Historical Journal, A 4-Part Series, December 2004-June 2005.

    “George Seldes: Memory and the Cold War.” LOOT Magazine, June 1990.

    “Bleak Houses: Or How Murder Becomes A Mystery: An Interview with Director Alan Francovich.” International Documentary, Fall 1989.

    “Hotel Terminus: Ophuls’ Cinema of Discovery.” International Documentary, Spring 1989.

    “Media Manipulation of the Movement.” Social Policy, Summer 1982. Reviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review, Fall, 1982.

    A Methodology of Reading Social Theory: A Case Study of Marx, Abundance and Scarcity. PhD Dissertation. City University of New York, 1982.

    Staked Plains, Shattered Hearths: A Gilded Age Tale, Then & Now. In-progress, expected 2015/16.

    Fields of Fire: Scorching Mother Earth, Then & Now. In-progress, expected 2015/16.

  • Introduction to Sociology; Sociological Theory; Sociology of Sports; Modern American Social Movements; Sociology of Media; Race/Social Construct; Environment Technology and Society; Summer Film Series (Fordham: College @ 60)