Joel Andreas is an American author and college professor. He holds a Ph.D. in
sociology from the
University of California in Los Angeles, and currently teaches at
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore
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, which he joined in 2003. His research interests include political contention, social inequality, and social change in China today.
Early life and academic career
Andreas spent his early childhood in
Detroit, and became interested in political activism when he accompanied his parents to political demonstrations against the
Vietnam War. His younger brother, Peter, now a professor at
Brown University
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, described their later childhood after their parents split. Their father, Carl, was more conservative than their mother, Carol Rich Andreas. Carl was benefits manager for the
United Auto Workers and Carol a leader of the
Michigan Women's Liberation Coalition. After the divorce, she took the children to Berkeley, California.
After working in an automobile plant and as a printer, Andreas attended
University of Illinois at Chicago then proceeded to take a PhD in Sociology at
University of California at Los Angeles.
In 2017, he received a grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies
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to convene a conference, "Land Dispossession in Rural China and India."
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Graphic novels
Prior to the publishing of ''Rise of the Red Engineers'' in 2009 many of Andreas's published writings had been graphic novels. The first of these was ''The Incredible Rocky'', an unauthorized biography of the Rockefeller family. Although Andreas wrote the book while still in high school,
Published works
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Notes
External links
Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey, and Joel Andreas on Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing (2008)
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American anti-war activists
American biographers
American male biographers
American foreign policy writers
American male non-fiction writers
American sociologists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni