Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is a Croatian American
sociologist. He is professor of sociology at
Texas A&M University
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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 eight years old.
He holds three degrees from
Harvard University
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and a Ph.D. degree from
Syracuse University
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. He began teaching at A&M University in 1986.
His uncle is Croatian lobbyist and politician
Mate Meštrović. He is a grandson of the Croatian sculptor
Ivan Meštrović.
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).
See also
*
Yugoslav Wars
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...
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Ivan Meštrović
References
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Living people
1955 births
American sociologists
Texas A&M University faculty
Harvard University alumni
Syracuse University alumni
Croatian emigrants to the United States