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CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert Brym
30 May 2015
A Biographical Information
1 Personal
Date of Birth
Citizenship
Marital Status
Address
Phone
Fax
e-mail
Web
16 August 1951
Canadian
Married, three children
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Avenue
Toronto M5S 2J4
Canada
416-978-3410
416-787-0795
rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca
http://rbrym9.wix.com/rbrym
2 Education
PhD
MA
BA (Hons)
University of Toronto
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University and
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1976
1973
1972
3 Languages
Writing, speaking and reading
Speaking and reading
Reading
English
Hebrew
French
Yiddish
German
Russian
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B Academic History
1 Employment
Present Appointments
SD Clark Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
2014Associate Chair (Undergraduate)
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
2012-15
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
1984Associate
Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Toronto
2008Associate
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
University of Toronto
1980-
Past Appointments
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
1980-84
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
1978-80
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
1976-78
Appointed to Graduate Faculty
1978
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2 Academic Honours
2014
2014
2013
2010
2009
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
2001
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1991
1990
SD Clark Professor of Sociology, Univ of Toronto
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
President’s Teaching Award, Univ of Toronto
Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, Univ of Toronto
Sociology in Today’s World shortlisted for the Australian Educational Publishing
Awards
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Oswald Hall Prize for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Dept of Sociology, Univ of
Toronto
Northrop Frye Award for excellence in research and teaching, Univ of Toronto
Keynote address, 40th anniversary of the founding of the Dept of Sociology and
Anthropology, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Convocation address, Steps to University Program, Univ of Toronto
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Hawthorn Lecture, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Outstanding Contribution Award, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
Book of the Year Award, Harcourt Brace Canada, for New Society: Sociology for the
21st Century
Author of the Year Award (College Titles), Harcourt Brace Canada
International Research Professor, Roehampton Institute, Univ of Surrey, London, UK
(declined)
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Oswald Hall Prize for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Dept of Sociology, Univ of
Toronto
Dean’s Excellence Award, Univ of Toronto
Honourable Mention, Oswald Hall Prize for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence,
Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto
Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecturer, Univ of New Brunswick
In Canadian Who’s Who, Univ of Toronto Press
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3 Grants
2014-19
2012-15
2011
2011-13
2011-14
2010
2005-09
2000-03
2000-03
2000
1995
1994-97
1994-96
1992-94
1977-2015
Total
SD Clark Professor of Sociology, $100,000.
SSHRC, “The Social Bases of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa,”
$146,626. Principal investigator.
Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, “Citizen Inclusion in the Greater Middle East,”
$23,171. Co-investigator.
Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, “Using Formative Peer- and SelfAssessment to Enhance Deep Learning and Develop Community,” $59,664.
Co-investigator.
SSHRC, “Cannabis, Stigma and Policy Change: A Three-Campus Study of
Normalization among College Students,” $103,500. Collaborator.
President’s Teaching Award, $50,000.
SSHRC, “Suicide Bombing and the Second Intifada,” $127,219. Principal
investigator.
SSHRC, “The 2000 World Values Survey,” $270,000. Co-investigator.
Univ of Calgary-Gorbachev Foundation, “The Russian Civil Service,”
$157,000. Principal investigator.
MSN.CA, “Online Dating in Canada,” $135,000. Principal investigator.
Dept of Canadian Heritage, “Russian Jews in Toronto,” $20,000. Coinvestigator.
SSHRC, “Political and Economic Change in Russia,” $91,000. Principal
investigator.
Inst for Int’l Programs Initiative Fund, Univ of Toronto, “Economic Elites in
Moscow,” $19,800. Principal investigator.
SSHRC, “The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk,” $20,000. Principal
investigator.
39 minor internal and external grants (including travel grants), $450 to
$10,000 each, $116,197.
$1,453,677
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C Scholarly and Professional Work
1 Publications
a Books
i Monographs
2007 R Brym Sociology as a Life or Death Issue (Toronto: Penguin)
 (Toronto: Nelson, 2008)
 US ed (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 2008)
 2nd Canadian ed (2011), includes “The social bases of cancer,” with the
assistance of C Bennett, Y Bollo-Kamara, C Coliviras, J Courneyea, K Hossain,
L Hui, M Hussein, N Huynh, A Krishnamoorthy, S Li, M Li, K Li, R Nijjar, D
Pham, N Rodrigues, J Sattar, I Sendroiu, J Syrette, H Wan, T Wu, A Zafar, K
Zafar and Y Zhao
 3rd Canadian ed (2014), includes “Gender Risk”
1994 R Brym with the assistance of R Ryvkina The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk:
Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration (London: Macmillan and New York: New York
University Press)
 World Wide Web ed (2008) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/brym/mkm.pdf.
 German translation of excerpt: “Das jüdische Dilemma,” Aufbau: Das Jüdische
Monatsmagazin (76, 3: March 2010) 10-12
1989 R Brym with B Fox From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada (Toronto:
Oxford University Press)
 25th anniversary ed (Toronto: Rock’s Mills Press, 2014). With a new preface,
“From Power to Culture?”
1983 V Zaslavsky and R Brym Soviet-Jewish Emigration and Soviet Nationality Policy
(London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin’s)
 Italian translation: Fuga Dall’Impero: L’Emigrazione Ebraica e la Politica Delle
Nazionalità in Unione Sovietica (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1985)
1980 R Brym Intellectuals and Politics, Controversies in Sociology No 9, T B Bottomore
and R J Mulkay, general eds (London and Boston: George Allen and Unwin)
 Indonesian translation: Intelecktual dan Politik (Jakarta: Pustaka Utama
Grafiti, 1993)
 Facsimile ed (London: Routledge, 2010)
1978 R Brym The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism: A Sociological Study of
Intellectual Radicalism and Ideological Divergence (London: Macmillan and New
York: Shocken)
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ii Textbooks
2003 R Brym and J Lie Sociology: Your Compass for a New World (Belmont CA:
Wadsworth)
 Canadian ed, R Brym, J Lie, A Nelson, N Guppy, and C McCormick (Toronto:
Nelson, 2003)
 2nd US ed (2005)
 Brief Canadian ed, R Brym, J Lie, and A Nelson (Toronto: Nelson, 2005)
 Brief US ed, (2006)
 Brazilian ed, R Brym, J Lie, C Hamlin, R Mutzenberg, E Veras Soares, and H
Souto Maior, Sociologia: Sua Bússola para um Novo Mundo (Saõ Paulo:
Thomson Learning, 2006) [in Portuguese]
 3rd US ed (2007)
 2nd Canadian ed, R Brym, J Lie, and S Rytina (2007)
 2nd US brief ed (2007)
 2nd Canadian brief ed (2008)
 Australia/New Zealand ed, B Furze, P Savy, R Brym, and J Lie Sociology in
Today’s World (Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia, 2008)
 3rd Canadian ed (2009)
 US Enhanced 2nd brief ed (Cengage, 2009)
 Quebec ed, R Brym, J Lie, C Canuel, D Veillette, B Gaulin, and P de Grosbois
Individu et Société (Montréal: Groupe Modulo, 2010) [in French]
 3rd Canadian brief ed, R Brym and J Lie, SOC+ (2011)
 4th Canadian ed (2012), R Brym, L Roberts, J Lie, and S Rytina
 3rd brief US ed (2012), re-titled Sociology: Pop Culture to Social Structure
 2nd Australia/New Zealand ed (2012)
 4th Canadian brief ed (2014)
 5th Canadian ed (2015), R Brym, L Roberts, L Strohschein, and J Lie
1996 R Brym, ed Society in Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st Century (Toronto:
Harcourt Brace Canada)
 2nd ed (1999)
 3rd ed (2001)
 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004)
 5th ed (2007)
 6th ed (2010)
 7th ed (2013)
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1995 R Brym, ed New Society: Sociology for the 21st Century (Toronto: Harcourt Brace
Canada)
 2nd ed (1998)
 3rd ed (2001)
 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004)
 5th ed (2007)
 6th ed (2010)
 7th ed (2013)
1991 I Zeitlin with R Brym The Social Condition of Humanity, Canadian ed (Toronto:
Oxford University Press)
b Edited Collections
1992-5 R Brym, General Editor, Sage Studies in International Sociology
 M Regini, ed The Future of Labour Movements (London: Sage, 1992)
 P Colomy, ed The Dynamics of Social Movements (London: Sage, 1992)
 G Esping-Andersen, ed Changing Classes: Stratification and Mobility in
Postindustrial Societies (London: Sage, 1993)
 E Riska and K Weger, eds Gender, Work and Medicine: Women and the Medical
Division of Labour (London: Sage, 1993)
 L Maheu, ed Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Social Action
(London: Sage, 1995)
 M Lanfant, J Allcock, and E Bruner, eds International Tourism: Identity and
Change (London: Sage, 1995)
1993 R Brym, W Shaffir and M Weinfeld, eds The Jews in Canada (Toronto: Oxford
University Press)
 Facsimile ed with new Preface (2010)
1991 T Basok and R Brym, eds Soviet-Jewish Emigration and Resettlement in the 1990s
(Toronto: York Lanes Press, York University)
 Special issue of Innovation in Social Sciences Research (Vienna) (1991)
1989 T Bottomore and R Brym, eds The Capitalist Class: An International Study (Hemel
Hempstead, UK: Harvester-Wheatsheaf and New York: New York University Press)
1986 R Brym, ed Regionalism in Canada (Toronto: Irwin)
1985 R Brym, ed The Structure of the Canadian Capitalist Class (Toronto: Garamond)
1979 R Brym and R Sacouman, eds Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic
Canada (Toronto: New Hogtown Press)
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R Brym, ed New Directions in Anglo-Canadian Historical Sociology, special issue of
Canadian Journal of Sociology (4, 3)
c Journal Articles
2014 R Brym, M Godbout, A Hoffbauer, G Menard, and T Zhang “Social media in the 2011
Egyptian uprising,” British Journal of Sociology (65, 2) 266-92.
S Milligan, R Andersen, and R Brym, “Assessing variation in tolerance in 23 Muslimmajority and western countries,” Canadian Review of Sociology (51, 3) 239-61
R Brym “Our first 50 years: a note on the University of Toronto’s Department of
Sociology,” Canadian Review of Sociology (51, 3) 288-92
2013 R Brym, L Birdsell Bauer, and M McIvor “Is industrial unrest reviving in Canada?
strike duration in the early 21st century,” Canadian Review of Sociology (50, 3) 22233
2012 R Brym and B Araj “Suicidality and suicide bombers: a rejoinder to Merari,” Studies
in Conflict and Terrorism (35, 10) 733-39
R Brym “Collective and state violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the limits of
classical rational-choice theory,” Canadian Review of Sociology (49, 3) 233-46
R Brym and B Araj “Are suicide bombers suicidal?” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
(35, 6) 332-43
2011 R Brym and R Andersen “Rational choice and the political bases of changing Israeli
counterinsurgency strategy,” British Journal of Sociology (62, 3) 482-503
N Gazit and R Brym “State-directed political assassination in Israel: a political
hypothesis,” International Sociology (26, 6) 862-77
M Nakhaie and R Brym “The ideological orientation of Canadian university
professors,” Canadian Journal of Higher Education (41, 1) 18-33
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cjhe/article/viewFile/2181/pdf_39
2010 B Araj and R Brym “Opportunity, culture and agency: influences on Fatah and Hamas
strategic action during the second intifada,” International Sociology (25, 6) 842-68
2009 R Brym and Y Maoz-Shai “State violence during the second intifada: combining new
institutionalist and rational choice approaches,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
(32, 7) 611-26
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R Brym and M Nakhaie “Professional, critical, policy, and public academics in
Canada,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (34, 3) 655-69
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/6305/5563
R Brym “Why I teach intro,” Academic Matters: The Journal of Higher Education (4, 1)
13-15
http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=2079&ca
tegory=featured_articles
 Reprinted in Inside Higher Education (24 February 2009)
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/02/24/brym
 Reprinted in A Backstage Sociologist (a Contexts blog)
http://contexts.org/monte/
 Reprinted in University of Toronto Bulletin 62, 15 (24 March 2009) 11
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bulletin/PDF_issues/03-24-09_web.pdf
2008 R Brym and B Araj “Palestinian suicide bombing revisited: a critique of the
outbidding thesis,” Political Science Quarterly (123, 3) 485-500
R Brym “Religion, politics, and suicide bombing: an interpretive essay,” Canadian
Journal of Sociology (33, 1) 89-108
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/1537/1061
2007 R Brym “Six lessons of suicide bombers,” Contexts (6, 4) 40-5
 Reprinted in J Goodwin and J Jasper, eds The Social Movements Reader, 2nd ed
(Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 295-301
 3rd ed (Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
2006 R Brym and B Araj “Suicide bombing as strategy and interaction: the case of the
second intifada,” Social Forces (84, 4) 1965-82
C Hamlin and R Brym “The return of the native: a cultural and social-psychological
critique of Durkheim’s Suicide based on the Guarani-Kaiowá of southwestern
Brazil,” Sociological Theory (24, 1) 42-57
R Brym “How high school drama helped me to become a sociologist: an essay in the
sociology of autobiography,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (31, 2) 245-57
2005 R Brym, S Chung, S Dulmage, C Farahat, M Greenberg, M Ho, K Housein, D Kulik, M
Lau, O Maginley, A Nercessian, E Reyes Le Blanc, A Sacher, N Sachewsky, A Sadovsky,
S Singh, S Sivananthan, N Toller, S Vossoughi, K Weger, and T Wu “In faint praise of
the World Bank’s gender development policy,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (30, 1)
95-111
 Reprinted in Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
http://www.cjsonline.ca/articles/brymetal05.html
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2004 R Brym and V Gimpelson “The size, composition, and dynamics of the Russian state
bureaucracy in the 1990s,” Slavic Review (63, 1) 90-112
R Brym, J Veugelers, J Butovsky, and J Simpson “Postmaterialism in unresponsive
political systems: the Canadian case,” Canadian Review of Sociology and
Anthropology (41, 3) 291-317
R Brym and V Gimpelson “A burocracia estatal Russa,” [“The Russian state
bureaucracy”] Estudos de Sociologia (7, 1/2: 2004) 187-203 [In Portuguese]
2003 R Brym “The decline of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association,”
Canadian Journal of Sociology (28, 3) 411-16
 French version: “Le déclin de l’Association canadienne de sociologie et
d’anthropologie,” Les cahiers de recherche sociologique (39: 2003) 227-35
2002 R Brym “Canadian sociology: an introduction to the upper thirteen,” American
Sociologist (33, 1) 5-11
2001 R Brym “Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Canada, 1996,” East
European Jewish Affairs (31, 2) 36-43
2000 R Brym and L Kosova “What the Russians think of ‘Pinochet’,” Transitions Online (22
May) http://www.tol.cz/
R Brym and L Kosova “Феномен В Путина: морфология и семантика массавой
популарности,” [“The V Putin phenomenon: The morphology and semantics of
mass popularity”] Экономические и социальные перемены: мониторинг
общественного мнения [Economic and Social Change: Monitoring Public Opinion]
(3) 18-22
1999 M Nakhaie and R Brym “The political attitudes of Canadian professors,” Canadian
Journal of Sociology (24, 3) 329-53
 Reprinted in Canadian Journal of Sociology Online at
www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/articles/nakhaie.html
R Brym “Русский антисемитизм,” [“Russian antisemitism”] Экономические и
социальные перемены: мониторинг общественного мнения [Economic and Social
Change: Monitoring Public Opinion] (3) 43-7
 Revised English version published as “Russian Antisemitism, 1996-2000,” in
Z Gitelman with M Glants and M Goldman, eds Jewish Life after the USSR: A
Community in Transition (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2002)
99-113
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1997 R Brym and C Saint-Pierre “Canadian sociology,” Contemporary Sociology (26, 4) pp
543-46
 Revised version published as “Sociology in Canada,” in R Brym, ed New
Society: Sociology for the 21st Century, 4th ed (Toronto: Harcourt Brace
Canada, 2004) 16-21
 Reprinted in Readings in Sociology (Boston: Pearson, 2006)
1996 R Brym “Reevaluating mass support for political and economic change in Russia,”
Europe-Asia Studies (48, 5) 751-66
 Reprinted in S White and D Nelson, eds The Politics of the Postcommunist
World, 2 vols (Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2001) Vol 2
R Brym “The ethic of self-reliance and the spirit of capitalism in Russia,”
International Sociology (11, 4) 409-26
 Hebrew translation in Baruch Kimmerling, ed ‫[ סוציולוגיה של הפוליטיקה‬Sociology
of Politics] (Ra’anana, Israel: Open University, 2005) 203-20
R Brym and R Ryvkina “Russian Jewry today: a sociological profile,” Sociological
Papers (5, 1) 47 pp.
R Brym “Russian attitudes towards Jews: an update,” East European Jewish Affairs
(26, 1) 55-64
R Brym and L Kosova “Президентские выборы – окончителъный диагноз?”
[“The presidential election: a final diagnosis?”] Экономические и социальные
перемены: мониторинг общественного мнения [Economic and Social Change:
Monitoring Public Opinion] (4) 19-22
R Brym “The Third Rome and The End of History: notes on Russia’s second
communist revolution,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (33, 4) 391406
1995 E Economakis and R Brym “Marriage and militance in a working class district of St
Petersburg, 1896-1913,” Journal of Family History (20, 1) 23-43
R Brym “Voters quietly reveal greater communist leanings,” Transition: Events and
Issues in the Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe (1, 16)
32-5
 Reprinted in Transitions Online (8 September 1995) http://www.tol.cz/
 Russian translation in Экономические и социальные перемены:
мониторинг общественного мнения [Economic and Social Change:
Monitoring Public Opinion] (4: 1995) 23-8
 Reprinted in Севодня [Today] (4 August 1995) p 2
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1994 R Brym and E Economakis “Peasant or proletarian? Blacklisted Pskov workers in St.
Petersburg, 1913,” Slavic Review (53, 1) 120-39
R Brym “Anti-Semitism in Moscow: a re-examination,” Slavic Review (53, 3) 842-55
R Brym “The spread of antisemitism in Moscow on the eve of the 1993
parliamentary election,” East European Jewish Affairs (24, 1) 31-7
1993 R Brym and A Degtyarev “Antisemitism in Moscow: results of an October 1992
survey,” Slavic Review (52, 1) 1-12
 Revised Hungarian translation in Európa Fórum (3, 4: 1993) 37-47
R Brym “The emigration potential of Jews in the former Soviet Union,” East
European Jewish Affairs (23, 2) 9-24
 Revised version in R Brym with the assistance of R Ryvkina The Jews of
Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration (London:
Macmillan and New York: New York University Press, 1994)
 Reprinted in N Lewin-Epstein, Y Ro’i and P Ritterband, eds Russian Jews on
Three Continents: Emigration and Resettlement (London: Frank Cass, 1997)
177-93
1992 R Brym “Some advantages of Canadian disunity: how Quebec sovereignty might aid
economic development in English-speaking Canada,” Canadian Review of Sociology
and Anthropology (29, 2) 210-26
R Brym and R Lenton “Anti-Semitism in Quebec,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (17,
2) 179-83
R. Brym “The emigration potential of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland
and Russia: recent survey results,” International Sociology (7, 4) 387-95
 Hungarian translation in E Sik, ed Útkeresők (Budapest: Yearbook of the
Research Group on Migration, Institute of Political Science, Hungarian
Academy of Science, 1993) 9-17
1991 R Brym and R Lenton “The distribution of antisemitism in Canada in 1984,”
Canadian Journal of Sociology (16, 4) 411-18
 Reprinted in R Brym, W Shaffir and M Weinfeld, eds The Jews in Canada
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993) 112-19
 Abridged version reprinted in Viewpoints: Canadian Jewish Quarterly (19, 6:
1991) 1-2
1990 R Brym “Sociology, perestroika, and Soviet society,” Canadian Journal of Sociology
(15, 2) 207-15
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R Brym “The end of sociology? a note on postmodernism,” Canadian Journal of
Sociology (15, 3) 329-33
1989 R Brym, M Gillespie and R Lenton “Class power, class mobilization, and class voting:
the Canadian case,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (14, 1) 25-44
R Brym and J Myles “Social science intellectuals and public issues in English
Canada,” University of Toronto Quarterly (58, 4) 442-51
R Brym “Perestroika, public opinion, and Pamyat,” Soviet Jewish Affairs (19, 3) 23-32
 Reprinted in T Basok and R Brym, eds Soviet-Jewish Emigration and
Resettlement in the 1990s (Toronto: York Lanes Press, York University, 1991)
53-63
 Reprinted in Soviet Refugee Monitor (1: 1991)
 Reprinted in Innovation in Social Sciences Research (1992)
 Reprinted in R Pohoryles et al, eds European Transformation: Five Decisive
Years at the Turn of the Century (Aldershot UK: Avebury, 1993) 141-50
R Brym “The Great Canadian Identity Trap: implications for the comparative study
of class and power,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (14, 4) 495-501
 Reprinted in A Himelfarb and C Richardson, eds Sociology for Canadians: A
Reader (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992) 352-6
1988 J O’Connor and R Brym “Public welfare expenditure in OECD countries: towards a
reconciliation of inconsistent findings,” British Journal of Sociology (39, 1) 47-68
R Brym “Soviet-Jewish emigration: a statistical test of two theories,” Soviet Jewish
Affairs (18, 3) 15-23
1986 R Brym “Trend report: Anglo-Canadian sociology,” Current Sociology (34, 1: 1986)
1-152
R Brym “Incorporation versus power models of working class radicalism: with
special reference to North America,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (11, 3: 1986)
227-51
 Reprinted in W Outhwaite and M Mulkay, eds Social Theory and Social
Criticism: Essays for Tom Bottomore (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987) 204-29
1985 R Brym, M Gillespie and R Gillis “Anomie, opportunity, and the density of ethnic ties:
another view of Jewish outmarriage in Canada,” Canadian Review of Sociology and
Anthropology (22, 1) 102-12
 Reprinted in R Brym, W Shaffir and M Weinfeld, eds The Jews in Canada
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993)
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R Brym “The changing rate of Jewish emigration from the USSR: some lessons from
the 1970s,” Soviet Jewish Affairs (15, 2) 23-35
 Hebrew translation in ‫[ יהודי בּרית המואצות‬The Jews of the Soviet Union] (9:
1985) 125-33
 Reprinted in T Horowitz, ed The Soviet Man in an Open Society (Lanham MD:
University Press of America, 1989) 35-48
1984 R Brym “Cultural versus structural explanations of ethnic intermarriage in the USSR:
a statistical re-analysis,” Soviet Studies (36, 4) 594-601
1983 R Brym “Israel in Lebanon,” Middle East Focus (6, 1) 14-19
R Brym “Introduction to Gershenzon,” Telos (58) 30-3
1978 V Zaslavsky and R Brym “The functions of elections in the USSR,” Soviet Studies (30,
3) 362-71
 Reprinted in P G Lewis et al, eds Readings in Soviet Politics (Milton Keynes
UK: Open University, 1982) 181-8
R Brym and B Neis “Regional factors in the formation of the Fishermen’s Protective
Union of Newfoundland,” Canadian Journal of Sociology (3, 4) 391-407
 Reprinted in R Brym and R Sacouman, eds Underdevelopment and Social
Movements in Atlantic Canada (Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1979) 203-18
R Brym “Regional social structure and agrarian radicalism in Canada: Alberta,
Saskatchewan and New Brunswick,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
(15, 3) 339-51
 Revised version reprinted in A Himelfarb and C Richardson, eds People,
Power, and Process: A Reader (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980) 344-53
 Reprinted in J Curtis and L Tepperman, eds Images of Canada: The
Sociological Tradition (Scarborough ON: Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1990) 12131
1977 R Brym “A note on the raznochintsy,” Journal of Social History (10, 3) 354-9
R Brym “Democracy and the intellectuals: a test of Karl Mannheim’s thesis,” Scottish
Journal of Sociology (1, 2) 173-82
d Book Chapters
2017 R Brym, R Andersen, and S Milligan “Are Islam and democracy compatible?” In
Patrizia Albanese and Lorne Tepperman, eds. Reading Sociology: Canadian
Perspectives, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada)
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2011 R Andersen, R Brym, and B Araj “Citizen inclusion in the Greater Middle East,” in D
Mogahed, ed The Abu Dhabi Gallup Forum: Research, Dialogue and Solutions (Abu
Dhabi: Gallup, 2012) 65-93. http://www.gallup.com/se/ms/153866/Abu-DhabiGallup-Forum-Key-Findings-Muslim-West-Relations.aspx?utm_source=email-afriend&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sharing&utm_content=titlelink
R Brym and B Araj “Intifada,” SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism, 2nd ed, C Gus Martin,
ed (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage) 293-4
2010 R Brym “Breaking the iron triangle of sociological causation: structural, cultural and
agentic influences on Fatah and Hamas during the second intifada,” in Z Baber and J
Bryant, eds Society, History, and the Global Condition of Humanity: Essays in Honor of
Irving M Zeitlin (Lanham MD: Lexington Books) 87-104
2009 V Gimpelson, V Magun, and R Brym “Hiring and promoting young civil servants:
Weberian ideals versus Russian reality,” in D Rowney and E Huskey, eds Russian
Bureaucracy and the State: Officialdom from Alexander III to Vladimir Putin (London:
Palgrave Macmillan) 231-52
R Brym and C Hamlin “Suicide bombers: beyond cultural dopes and rational fools,”
in M Cherkaoui and P Hamilton, eds Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology, 4 vols
(Oxford: Bardwell Press) Vol 2, 83-96
2007 R Brym “Sociology as a life or death issue,” in R Brym, ed Society in Question:
Sociological Readings for the 21st Century, 5th ed (Toronto: Nelson) 3-9
2005 R Brym “Why Robert Brym decided not to study sociology: an introduction,” in R
Atkinson Reading Strategies for Today’s College Student (Belmont CA: Thomson
Learning) 322-8
V Magun and R Brym “Молодые чиновники и административня реформа в
России,” [“Young civil servants and administrative reform in Russia”] in Yu Krasin,
ed Публичная политика в Росси [Public Policy in Russia] (Moscow: Alpina Business
Books) 249-52
2004 R Brym and R Lenton “Love at first byte: internet dating in Canada,” in R Brym, ed
Society in Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st Century, 4th ed (Toronto:
Nelson) http://www.societyinquestion4e.nelson.com/article2.html
 5th ed (2007)
 6th ed (2010)
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2003 R Brym “Affluence, strikes, and power in Canada, 1973-2000,” in J Curtis, E Grabb,
and N Guppy, eds Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns, Problems, Policies, 4th ed
(Scarborough ON: Prentice-Hall Canada) 55-68
 Reprinted in R Brym, ed Society in Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st
Century, 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004) 243-53
 Reprinted in R Brym, ed Society in Question, 5th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2007)
188-98
 Updated “Affluence, strikes, and power in Canada, 1973-2005,” in Edward
Grabb and Neil Guppy, eds Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns, Problems,
Policies, 5th ed (Scarborough ON: Prentice-Hall Canada, 2008) 61-75
 Reprinted in R Brym, ed Society in Question, 6th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2010)
2002 N Nevitte, L Anderson and R Brym “Ten years after: Canadian attitudes toward
continentalism,” in E Chambers and P Smith, eds NAFTA in the New Millennium
(Edmonton and La Jolla: University of Alberta Press and Center for US-Mexican
Studies, University of California) 185-212
2001 R Brym “Intellectuals, sociology of,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences, N Smelser and P Baltes, eds 26 vols (Oxford UK: Elsevier
Science) 7631-5
 Revised ed., International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd
ed, J Wright, ed (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015) Vol 12, 277-82.
R Brym “Does the Internet isolate people socially or can it promote intimacy?” In C
Bain and J Colyer The Human Way: Introducing Anthropology, Psychology, and
Sociology (Toronto: Oxford University Press) 319
R Brym “Culture,” in R Brym, ed New Society: Sociology for the 21st Century, 3rd ed
(Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada) 26-44
 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004) 58-78
 5th ed (2007) 29-50
 6th ed (2010) 27-47
 7th ed (2013)
R Brym “Hip-hop from dissent to commodity: a note on consumer culture” in R
Brym, ed Society in Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st Century, 3rd ed
(Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada) 78-81
 4th ed 2004 (Toronto: Nelson)
http://www.societyinquestion4e.nelson.com/article1.html
1999 R Brym “Canadian society and the 1996 census,” supplement to New Society:
Sociology for the 21st Century, 2nd ed (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada)
 Revised ed., “Canadian society and the 2006 census” (Toronto: Nelson, 2009)
 Revised ed., “2011 Census Update: A Critical Interpretation” (2014)
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1998 R Brym “Politics and social movements,” in R Brym, ed New Society: Sociology for the
21st Century, 2nd ed (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada)
 3rd ed (2001) 475-94
 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004) 518-41
 5th ed (2007) 464-85
 6th ed (2010) 429-50
 7th ed (2013)
1996 G Olsen and R Brym “Between American exceptionalism and Swedish social
democracy: public and private pensions in Canada,” in M Shalev, ed The
Privatization of Social Policy? Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America,
Scandinavia and Japan (London: Macmillan) 261-79
R Brym “Поворотная точка президентской кампании,” [“The turning point in the
presidential campaign”], in Президентские выборы 1996 года и общественное
мнение [The 1996 Presidential Election and Public Opinion] (Moscow: VTsIOM,
1996) 44-9.
 Originally in Севодня [Today] (4 June) 2.
R Brym “The farmers’ and workers’ movements in Canada” R Brym, ed Society in
Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st Century (Toronto: Harcourt Brace
Canada) 86-91
R Brym “The Quebec question,” in R Brym, ed Society in Question: Sociological
Readings for the 21st Century (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada)
 2nd ed (1998) 205-7
 3rd ed (2001) 240-4
1995 R Brym “Intellectuals,” Encyclopedia of Democracy, 4 vols, S Lipset, ed (Washington:
Congressional Quarterly Books) Vol 2, 613-16
R Brym “Introducing sociology” in R Brym, ed New Society: Sociology for the 21st
Century (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada) 1-24
 2nd ed (1998) 2-28
 3rd ed (2001) 2-23
 4th ed (Toronto: Nelson, 2004) 1-26
 5th ed (2007) 1-27
 6th ed (2010) 2-26
 7th ed (2013)
1993 R Brym “From ‘The Soviet People’ to the refugee crisis in Russia,” in R Ryvkina and R
Turovskiy The Refugee Crisis in Russia, R Brym, ed, P Patchet-Golubev, trans
(Toronto: York Lanes Press, York University) 1-7
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1992 J Myles and R Brym “Markets and welfare states: what East and West can learn from
each other,” in Z Ferge and J Kolberg, eds Social Policy in a Changing Europe
(Frankfurt aM, Germany: Campus Verlag and Boulder CO: Westview) 27-36
R Brym “The classic questions of European sociology,” in A Himelfarb and C
Richardson, eds Sociology for Canadians: A Reader (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson)
16-23
1991 T Basok and R Brym “Soviet-Jewish emigration and resettlement in the 1990s: an
overview,” in T Basok and R Brym, eds Soviet-Jewish Emigration and Resettlement in
the 1990s (Toronto: York Lanes Press, York University) xi-xxii
R Brym “The emigration potential of Russia and Lithuania: recent survey results,” in
T Basok and R Brym, eds Soviet-Jewish Emigration and Resettlement in the 1990s
(Toronto: York Lanes Press, York University) 29-32
 Reprinted in Refuge (11, 4: 1992) 13-14
R Brym “Ethnic group structure and cohesion in Canada: an overview,” in R Ostow et
al, eds Ethnicity, Structural Inequality, and the State in Canada and the Federal
Republic of Germany (Frankfurt aM: Peter Lang) 49-76
1989 R Brym “The rise and decline of Canadian Jewry? A sociodemographic profile,” in
Canadian Jewry Today: Who’s Who in Canadian Jewry (Downsview ON: JESL
Publications) 37-51
 Reprinted in R Brym, W Shaffir and M Weinfeld, eds The Jews in Canada
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993)
1988 R Brym “Structural location and ideological divergence: Jewish Marxist intellectuals
in turn-of-the-century Russia,” in B Wellman and S Berkowitz, eds Social Structures:
A Network Approach (New York: Cambridge University Press) 359-79
 Updated ed (Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 1997)
 Updated ed (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press International, 2003)
R Brym “Foundations of sociological theory,” in L Tepperman and J Curtis, eds
Readings in Sociology: An Introduction (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson) 4-12
 Reprinted in L Tepperman and J Curtis, eds Everyday Life: A Reader (Toronto:
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992) 14-23
 Reprinted in R Brym, ed Society in Question: Sociological Readings for the 21st
Century (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1996) 8-14
 Reprinted in E Ksenych, ed Forbidden Desires: Deviance and Control (Toronto:
Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2003)
1987 R Brym “The political sociology of intellectuals: a critique and a proposal,” in A
Gagnon, ed The Role of Intellectuals in Liberal Democracies: Political Influence and
Social Involvement (New York: Praeger) 199-209
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1986 R Brym “An introduction to the regional question in Canada,” In R Brym, ed
Regionalism in Canada (Toronto: Irwin) 1-45
R Brym “Social movements,” in L Tepperman and J Richardson, eds The Social
World: An Introduction to Sociology (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson) 285-307
 Revised version in L Tepperman and J Richardson, eds The Social World: An
Introduction to Sociology, 2nd ed (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1991) 67099
1985 R Brym “The Canadian capitalist class, 1965-1985,” in R Brym, ed The Structure of
the Canadian Capitalist Class (Toronto: Garamond, 1985) 1-20
 Revised version in J Curtis et al, eds Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns,
Problems and Policies (Toronto: Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1988) 36-52
 2nd ed (1993) 31-48
 Revised version in T Bottomore and R Brym, eds The Capitalist Class: An
International Study (Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester-Wheatsheaf and New
York: New York University Press, 1989) 177-205
1984 R Brym “Social movements and third parties,” in S Berkowitz, ed Models and Myths
in Canadian Sociology (Toronto: Butterworths Canada) 29-49
1983 V Zaslavsky and R Brym “The structure of power and the functions of soviet local
elections,” in E Jacobs, ed Soviet Local Politics and Government (London: George
Allen and Unwin) 69-77
1979 R Brym “Political conservatism in Atlantic Canada,” in R Brym and R Sacouman, eds
Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada (Toronto: New
Hogtown) 59-79
1976 G Zollschan and R Brym “A transconceptualization of concepts in sociology of
knowledge and sociology of science,” in G Zollschan and W Hirsch, eds Social
Change: Explorations, Diagnoses and Conjectures (Boston: Schenkman) 159-99
e Research Reports
2015 Dwayne E. Paré, Lisa-Marie Collimore, Steve Joordens, Carol Rolheiser, Robert Brym,
and Garfield Gini-Newman “Put students’ minds together and their hearts will
follow: building a sense of community in large-sized classes via peer- and selfassessment,” Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (Toronto) 29 pp.
http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Report_Hearts%20and%20Minds.
pdf
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2003 V Magun, R Brym, V Gimpel’son, S Morozkov, A Chirikova Молодые специалисты
на Российской государственной и муниципальной службе: научный отчет по
итогам исследования областных и городских администраций (Moscow: Russian
Academy of Sciences) 171 pp [Russian: Young Specialists in the Russian State and
Municipal Service: Scientific Report on Results of Research on Regional and Municipal
Administrations] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/brym/pubs.htm
2001 R Brym and R Lenton Love Online: A Report on Digital Dating in Canada (Toronto:
MSN.CA) 55 pp http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/brym/loveonline.pdf
2000 T Basok and R Brym The Jewish Community from the Former USSR in Toronto
(Research Report prepared for the Dept of Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism
Canada) 32 pp
1994 R Brym “Antisemitism in Russia: recent survey results,” Institute of Jewish Affairs
Research Report (6) 18 pp
R Brym The Jewish Elderly and Pensions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldava and
Uzbekistan (Research Report) (New York: The American Joint Distribution
Committee) 16 pp
1991 R Brym Survey of Soviet-Jewish Immigrants in Toronto: Consultant’s Technical Report
(Research Report prepared for the Dept of Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism
Canada) 56 pp
1973 R Brym Prejudice and Discrimination by Age and Sex in New Brunswick Industry
(Fredericton: New Brunswick Human Rights Commission) 25 pp
f Miscellaneous (last 10 years)
2015 “How Ontario dropped the ball on mandatory retirement,” iPolitics.ca. 27 February.
http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/brym/retirement.pdf.
“Bread and salt: what a Jewish cemetery in Poland taught me about an Arab
cemetery in Israel,” JONAH Magazine 2.
http://jonahmagazine.com/category/memoir/
 Arabic version in al-Quds (Jerusalem: 7 February 2012) 20
Review of Zvi Gitelman, Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine, in
Slavic Review (74, 1) 217-18
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2013 “Actually, now’s the perfect time to ‘commit sociology’.” iPolitics.ca (26 April 2013),
with Howard Ramos. http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/brym/commit.htm
 Reprinted in Halifax Chronicle-Herald (30 April 2013)
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1126165-harper-adds-sociology-tolist-of-sciences-that-get-short-shrift
 Reprinted in Fostering Conversations About Teaching Sociology in Canada
http://community.cengage.com/Site/fosteringconversations/w/engagement
/06-actually-now-s-the-perfect-time-to-commit-sociology.aspx
R Brym, ed Think Outside the Book: Nelson Education Videos for Introductory
Sociology, 8 vols (Toronto: Nelson)
2012 “What is the relationship between terrorism and social movements?” Mobilizing
Ideas (Centre for the Study of Social Movements, University of Notre Dame)
http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/
2 In Preparation and in Submission
R Brym and R Andersen “Democratic freedoms, women’s rights, and public opinion in
Tunisia,” submitted (2015)
T Zhang, R Brym and R Andersen “Postmaterialism and liberalism in China: the role of
social class and inequality,” submitted (2015)
R Brym “After postmaterialism: an essay on China, Russia and the United States,” submitted
(2015)
D Stefanovic, R Brym, R Andersen and G Evans “Antisemitism in Russia revisited,” to be
submitted (2015)
R Brym, C Caron, R Andersen et al. “Student protest in Toronto and Montreal, 2010-15: the
effects of structure, culture and agency,” to be submitted (2016)
R Brym, ed. New Society, 8th ed. (Toronto: Nelson, forthcoming 2016)
R Brym, ed. Income Inequality and the Future of Canadian Society (Toronto: Rock’s Mills
Press, forthcoming 2017)
R Brym, SOC+, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Nelson, forthcoming 2017)
R Brym, Sociology as a Life or Death Issue, 4th Canadian ed. (Toronto: Nelson, forthcoming
2017). Includes new chapter, “War”
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3 Participation in Scholarly Meetings (last 10 years)
2015 K Kolar, P Erickson, R Brym, and A Hathaway “Gender and evaluations of cannabis
acceptability: integrating cannabis use into ‘respectable’ identities,” presented at the
annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology (Washington DC)
R Brym, “After postmaterialism: an essay,” keynote address, presented at the annual
meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (Ottawa)
2014 D Stefanovic, R Brym, and G Evans “Russian anti-Semitism revisited,” presented at
the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia
University (New York)
R Brym, M Godbout, A Hoffbauer, G Menard, and T Zhang “Social media in the 2011
Egyptian uprising,” presented at the Academic Exchange Seminar on Contentious
Politics, State-Society Relations, and Islamic Identity in the Arab World, University
of Toronto
2013 K Kolar, P Erickson, R Brym, and A Hathaway, “Girls just wanna have fun? exploring
drug acceptability among drug using and non-using undergraduate students,”
presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (Victoria)
2012 K Kolar, P Erickson, R Brym, and A Hathaway, “Drug normalization among
undergraduate students: implications for academic achievement,” presented at the
annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (Waterloo)
2011 R Andersen, R Brym, and B Araj, “Citizen inclusion in the Greater Middle East,”
presented at the Abu Dhabi Gallup Forum (Abu Dhabi)
R Brym “Collective and state violence during the second intifada,” presented at a
conference on Violence, Terrorism and Radicalism, Sorbonne (Paris)
2010 J Curtis, A Piekosz, S Milligan and R Brym “The social and economic integration of
Pakistani immigrants in Canada,” presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian
Sociological Association (Montreal)
2009 R Brym “The social and political gap between economic crisis and radicalization,”
presented at a workshop on Radicalization in the National Economic Climate,
Defence Research and Development Canada (Toronto)
https://www.globalfuturesforum.org/fileadmin/template/main/UserFiles/File/eve
nts/toronto-1208/Brym.pdf
R Brym and B Araj “Breaking the iron triangle of sociological causation: structural,
cultural and agentic influences on Fatah and Hamas during the second intifada,”
presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (Ottawa)
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2008 C Hamlin and R Brym “Homens-bomba: para além do idiota cultural e do tolo
racional,” [Portuguese: “Suicide bombers: beyond cultural idiots and rational fools”]
presented at the XI Conference of the Social Sciences (Recife, Brazil)
R Brym and Y Maoz-Shai “State violence during the second intifada: combining new
institutionalist and rational choice approaches,” presented at the annual meetings of
the Canadian Sociological Association (Vancouver)
R Brym “Peer-reviewed publishing as a community activity,” panelist at the annual
meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (Vancouver)
4 Invited Lectures (last 10 years)
2015 R Brym ““Violence against women in 137 countries,” Fanshawe College (London ON)
2013 R Brym “Whose ox was gored? Useful and more useful questions about state and
collective violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Department of Sociology,
University Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh PA)
2012 “Engaging students in the large lecture hall,” presented at teaching symposia
sponsored by Nelson Education and Cengage Learning (Toronto, Arlington VA, and
Newport Beach CA)
2011 “Bread and salt: reconciling historical memory in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,”
Graduate Center of the City University of New York (New York)
“The social bases of cancer,” presented at the University of Western Ontario
(London)
2010 “The seven lessons of suicide bombers: what the Middle East can teach Canada,”
presented at St Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia)
2008 “Islamophobia,” presented at the Noor Cultural Centre (Toronto)
2007 “The six lessons of suicide bombing,” presented at McGill Univ (Montreal);
 Concordia Univ (Montreal)
 San Antonio Community College (San Antonio TX)
 Univ of Lethbridge (Lethbridge)
 Univ of Alberta (Edmonton)
 Univ of Toronto (Toronto)
“The sociology of hip hop,” presented at Milwaukee Area Technical College
(Milwaukee WI)
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2006 “Suicide bombing as strategy and interaction: the case of the second intifada,”
presented at Memorial University (St John’s)
 Univ of Guelph (Guelph)
 McMaster Univ (Hamilton)
 Univ of Windsor (Windsor)
 Univ of Toronto (Toronto)
D Instruction of Students
1 Undergraduate
a Lecture
 Introductory Sociology http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/soc101y/brym/
 Sociological Theory
 Social Stratification
 Ethnicity
 Social Movements
 Political Sociology
 Canadian Society
b Reading
 The Iranian revolution of 1979
 Right-wing extremism in Canada and Germany between the wars
 Student movements
 Blacks in Toronto
 Technology and society
2 Graduate
a Lecture
 Canadian Society
 Political Sociology
 Race and Ethnicity
 Social Movements
b Reading
 American influences on the Canadian trade union movement
 The political and economic development of Canadian society
 The institutionalization of the medical professions: a sociology of knowledge
approach with special reference to Newfoundland
 Social movements
 Russian society, 1917-93
 The economic and political sociology of globalization
 Value change in former communist countries
 The development of dependency theory
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The dynamics of the second intifada
Protest during the second intifada
State repression during the second intifada
The social preconditions of democracy
3 Graduate Thesis and Post-Doctoral Supervision (principal advisor only)
In progress
A Athamny Arab Women’s Sense of Security Before, During, and After the Arab
Spring (PhD, University of Toronto)
In progress
A Slavina Activism, Political Structure and Policy (PhD, University of Toronto)
In progress
T Zhang Public Opinion in China: A Reassessment of Economic and Cultural
Explanations of Value Shift (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
2011
B Araj Suicide Bombing and Harsh State Repression: The Second Intifada,
2000-05 (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
2008-10
N Gazit Transnational Civil-Military Co-operation in the West Bank, Gaza and
Afghanistan (postdoctoral research, University of Toronto)
2005
S Drakulic Nationalism in a Contested Time: The Age of Nationalism Hypothesis
Revisited (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
2001
J Butovsky The Decline of the New Democrats: The Politics of Postmaterialism
or Neoliberalism? (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
1994
C Denis The NDP in Quebec (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
1990
G Olsen On the Limits of Social Democracy: The Rise and Fall of the Swedish
Wage Earner Funds (PhD, Univ of Toronto)
1989-90
J Cleveland What Happened to the Sixties’ Radicals? (postdoctoral research,
Univ of Toronto)
1988
C Benoit Midwives in Transition: A Study in Occupational Change in 20th
Century Newfoundland (PhD, Univ of Toronto, 1988)
1987
J O’Connor Public Welfare Expenditure and Policy Orientation in OECD
Countries, 1960-80 (PhD, Univ of Toronto, 1987)
1982
M Knutilla The Impact of the Western Canadian Agrarian Movement on
Federal Government Policy, 1900-1930 (PhD, Univ of Toronto, 1982)
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1980
B Neis A Sociological Analysis of the Fishermen’s Protective Union of
Newfoundland (MA, Memorial Univ, 1980)
E Administration, Editorial, and Consulting
1 Within University (excluding departmental committees)
2012-15
Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto
2010-present Member, President’s Teaching Academy, Univ of Toronto
2008
Member, Northrop Frye Award Selection Committee, Univ of Toronto
1997-98
Member, Executive Committee, Centre for Russian and East European
Studies, Univ of Toronto
Programme Committee, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Univ
of Toronto
Departmental Representative, Collaborative Program in Ethnic and Pluralism
Studies, Univ of Toronto
1990
Member, Steering Committee, First Canada-USSR Academic Dialogue on
Jewish Themes, Univ of Toronto
1988-94
Member, Advisory Committee for Chair of Estonian Studies, Univ of Toronto
1982-84
Associate Chair, Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto
Director, Structural Analysis Programme, Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto
1981-82
Member, Arts and Science General Committee, Univ of Toronto
2 Outside University (excluding tenure, promotion, departmental, and journal
reviews)
2015
2014
2010-12
2008
2007-08
2007
2001-05
2000-02
2000-01
1997-02
1997
1997
Consultant, Religion Q Survey (Principal Investigator: Reginald Bibby, Dept of
Sociology, University of Lethbridge)
SSHRC adjudication committee, Insight Development Grants
Departmental representative, Canadian Sociological Association
Chair, Search Committee for Editor of Canadian Review of Sociology
Consultant, Transitional Justice Project (Principal Investigator: Roland Paris,
Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, University of Ottawa)
Consultant, Project Teen Canada 2008 (Principal Investigator: Reginald
Bibby, Dept of Sociology, University of Lethbridge)
Editor, East European Jewish Affairs, London UK
College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada
Research Consultant, Project on Internet Dating, Microsoft Canada, Toronto
Member, Editorial Board, Current Sociology
Associate Editor, Health Profile, Journal of the Dept of Behavioural
Sciences, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
Sociology Content Consultant, World Wide Web site, Harcourt Brace College
Publishers, Fort Worth, Texas, and Harcourt Brace Canada, Toronto
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1994-2001
1994
1993-2000
1993-97
1992-93
1991-93
1991-92
1991
1991-97
1990-97
1990-93
1990-91
1989-93
1987-88
1986-89
1984-86
1984-95
1980-85
1980
International Advisory Board Member, East European Jewish Affairs, London
UK
Research Consultant, Project on the Jewish Elderly and Pension Incomes in
the Former Soviet Union, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New
York
Member, Council of the Foundation on Global and Regional Development,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Member, Editorial Board, Социологичиский журнал [Sociological Journal],
Journal of the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
Editor, Current Sociology, London UK
Co-editor, Refuge, Toronto
National Member, Centre for Refugee Studies, York Univ
Co-editor, Soviet Refugee Monitor, Toronto
Research Consultant, Survey of Soviet-Jewish Immigrants in Canada,
Employment and Immigration Canada
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Sociology, London UK
Member, Publications Committee, International Sociological Association
Editor, Sage Studies in International Sociology
Member, Editorial Board, International Sociology, London UK
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Edmonton
Member, Publications Committee, Ontario Association of Sociology and
Anthropology
Sociology Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Toronto
Associate Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Toronto
Contributing Editor, Viewpoints: Canadian Jewish Quarterly, Montreal
Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Edmonton
Panel Member, Ontario Graduate Fellowships, Ontario Ministry of Education
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