Kent Redding

Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

Office: Bolton Hall 720
Phone: (414) 229-6946
E-mail: kredding@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Fall Office Hours:  M 1:00–3:00, W 1:00–2:00 and by appointment

Degree:
Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
B.A., University of Michigan

Research Interests:
Politics, historical/comparative sociology, social movements, race, collective identity, religion

Spring 2010 Course
SOCIOL 927-001: Seminar: Political Sociology

Fall 2009 Course
SOCIOL 715-001: Systematic Sociological Theory (pdf)

Summer 2009 Course
SOCIOL 375-291: History of Sociological Theory (pdf)

Past Course Syllabi
SOCIOL 101: Introduction to Sociology (pdf)
SOCIOL 927: Seminar: Political Sociology (pdf)
SOCIOL 928: Seminar: Social Movement (pdf)

Selected Publications:
Redding, Kent, David R. James, and Joshua Klugman. "The Politics of Racial Policy," chapter in A Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander M. Hicks & Mildred Schwartz, Cambridge University Press, (2004).

James, David R. and Kent Redding. "Theories of Race and State," chapter in A Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, et al., Cambridge University Press, (2004).

Redding, Kent. Making Race, Making Power: North Carolina's Road to Disfranchisement, University of Illinois Press, (2003).

Redding, Kent and David R. James. "Estimating Levels and Modeling Determinants of Black and White Voter Turnout in the South: 1880 to 1912," Historical Methods, 34:4: 141-158, (2001).

Redding, Kent and Jocelyn S. Viterna. "Political Demands, Political Opportunities: Explaining the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties." Social Forces, 78: 491-510, (1999).