Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is an American sociologist. He is professor of sociology at

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. Meštrović has served as an expert witness in war crimes trials, including at the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse case. He has written over 15 books. Meštrović was born in Croatia and moved to the United States when he was 8 years old. He holds three degrees from

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and a Ph.D. degree from

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. He began teaching at A&M University in 1991. He is a grandson of the Croatian sculptor

Ivan Meštrović Ivan Meštrović (; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's ...

Selected works

*''Durkheim and Postmodern Culture'' (Routledge, 1992). *''Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993). *''Genocide after Emotion: The Post-Emotional Balkan War'' (Routledge, 1996). *''This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia'', co-edited with Thomas Cushman (NYU Press, 1996). *''Postemotional Society'' (SAGE, 1997). *''Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist'' (Taylor & Francis, 1998). *''Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor'' (Routledge, 2006). *''The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the Us Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq'' (Algora Publishing, 2009). *''Strike and Destroy: When Counter-insurgency (COIN) Doctrine Met Hellraisers Brigade Or, the Fate of Corporal Morlock'' (Algora Publishing, 2012). *''The Postemotional Bully'' (SAGE, 2015).

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