Professor Michael Mann FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology, UCLA (since 1987). Born Manchester, England in 1942. D.Phil Oxford. Honorary Doctorates from McGill University, The University of the Aegean, and University College, Dublin. Honorary Professor Cambridge University. Member of the American Academy. Principal work is the four-volume The Sources of Social Power (1986, 1993, 2012, and 2013), which is a history of power in human societies centred on four types of power, ideological, economic, military, and political. Also published books entitled Fascists, on the rise of fascism in the inter-war period, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing, and Incoherent Empire, a critique of US foreign policy. Currently writing a book on war and military power.
Current post
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ewan Ferlie FBA
Public management, both in the UK and internationally, with special reference to the health care and higher education sectors and focussing on narratives of public management reform
Professor Francesco Billari FBA
Demography; life course; family and fertility; transition to adulthood; social norms; comparative and cross-national research; social statistics; agent-based modelling
Professor Lindsay Paterson FBA
Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science
