Simon Richard Curtis CLARKE  CURRICULUM VITAE

Emeritus Professor of Sociology,
Department of Sociology,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL,
UK

Home Telephone:          +44-(0)2476-679632
Mobile:                         +44-(0)7713-864427
Email:                           Simon.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk

Website:                       www.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe

Education

Teaching

Doctoral Students

Funded Research

Employment

October 1994-September 2009 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

October 1991-September 1994 Reader, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

October 1981-September 1991 (Chair of Department 1982-5). Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

October 1972-September 1981. Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

October 1971-September 1972. Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex.

October 1970-September 1971. Part-time Sociology Tutor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex./Open University Course Tutor.

October 1967-September 1968.  Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University College, London.

June-July 1967.  Advisory Mission to Oilfield Workers' Trade Union of Trinidad.

With Dr Charles Feinstein, I prepared the Union side of a case in the Industrial Court concerning the retrenchment of 1500 workers by BP.

January-June 1964, June-September 1965.  Statistical Assistant, National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

On the first occasion I was responsible for preparing statistical material on Commonwealth trade. On the second occasion I undertook a project on the reliability of official statistics as part of the NIESR economic forecast team.

Education:

1964 – 67   Clare College, Cambridge

            1965 Economics Tripos, Part 1: Class II.1

            1966 Economics Tripos, Prelims: Class I

                        Foundation Scholarship, Clare College

                        Elected to Political Economy Club

             1967 Economics Tripos, part II: Class I

                        College Prize

1968 – 71   Department of Sociology, University of Essex

    SSRC-supported doctoral student.

                          PhD awarded 1975:     "The Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss"

Professional Recognition

August 1998:    Visiting Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University.

April 2001:        Visiting Professor, City University, Hong Kong.

2002:               nominated by the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies and elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Science.

Teaching

 I taught on a wide range of courses during my years at Warwick, although my primary teaching responsibility has always been in the areas of comparative and historical sociology and sociological theory.

 Undergraduate:

I have taught part or all of the following undergraduate courses: Social Research Methods, History of Sociology, Sociological Concepts and Institutions, Sociology of Developing Societies, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Sociology of Literature, Sociology of Language, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Marx’s Social Theory, Social Structure of Modern Britain, Joint Seminar in Philosophy and Sociology, Problems of Historical Sociology, Sociology of Advanced Industrial Societies, Class and Gender in Britain since 1750, Modernity and Globalisation.

 Graduate:

MA Sociology, MA Sociology of Southern Africa, MA Comparative Labour Studies, MA Social and Political Thought. Recent MA courses: Political Economy, Ideology and the State; Marx’s Social Theory; Trade Unions and Worker Organisation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Money and the State.

 Doctoral supervision:

I have supervised more than 40 doctoral students, most of whom subsequently secured posts in research or higher education (If I have forgotten anyone, please let me know!):

Funded Research Grants

Other projects

I was a non-funded participant in a project with Professor Mark Granovetter and Dr Valeri Yakubovich of Stanford University, funded by the NSF, researching labour mobility in Samara from August 1998 to December 1999.

 
I was a non-funded participant in a project on the development of trade unionism in China and Russia, headed by Dr Bill Taylor of City University, Hong Kong, funded to the tune of $50,000 by the Soka University of America and the Pacific Basin Research Centre, Harvard University.

 
I have been consultant to the Ford Foundation funded extension to our Tempus TACIS programme. I have also been consultant to the projects on the development of sociology teaching based at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow and at Nizhnii Novgorod State University, both funded under the World Bank’s Higher Education Development Loan.