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DR. PAUL KAMOLNICK
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614-0644
(423) 439-6652/4370
fax: (423) 439-5313
e-mail: kamolnp@etsu.edu
May 2005
Just Published! Kamolnick's book, The Just Meritocracy: IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy (Greenwich, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005), examines the centrality of human intelligence as a partially heritable variable mediating contemporary socioeconomic status attainment, and as a direct consequence, the need to revise both liberal democratic and libertarian conservative social policy. For ordering information, visit www.greenwood.com. For a recent interview that identifies certain key themes, see www.starhq.com (April 27, 2005 edition, p. 2). .
Education
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Major Areas: Sociological Theory, Political Economy. Florida State University, December 1990. |
| M.S. | Master of Science in Sociology, Major Areas: Sociological Theory, Political Economy. Florida State University, May 1987. |
| B.S. | Bachelor of Science (cum laude) in Political Science/Political Theory, Florida State University, August 1983. |
Specialized Major Areas
Classical Social Theory, Contemporary Social Theory, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Biosocial Theory.
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Teaching Positions Held
| Fall 1997 – present | Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. |
| Fall 1990-Spr. 1996 | Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. |
| Fall 1998-Spr. 1999 | Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University Honors Program, Honors Faculty for course “Self and Society”. |
Scholarship, Research, and Professional Development
Publications
Books/Edited Books
Powers, Tom, and Paul Kamolnick (eds.) 1999. From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory. Melbourne, FL: Krieger, xv, 202 pp.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1990. The Minimum Wage Restoration Act of 1989?: Wage-relation, class politics, and the rhetoric of wage minimizers. (Doctoral dissertation, Unpublished, UMI # 9113937; 306 pp.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1988. Classes: A Marxist Critique. New York: General Hall, Inc., xiv, 174 pp.
Kamolnick, Paul. 2005. The Just Meritocracy: IQ, Class Mobility, and American Social Policy. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. [ISBN 0-275-97922-9.]
Journal Articles/ Book Chapters
Kamolnick, Paul. 2001. “Simmel’s Legacy for Contemporary Value Theory: A Critical Assessment.” Sociological Theory, 19(1): 65-85.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. “Central Themes in Simmel’s Philosophy of Money.” T. Powers and P. Kamolnick (eds.), From Kant to Weber: Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory, pp. 151-168. Melbourne, FL: Krieger.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1998. “Visions of Social Justice in Marx: An Assessment of Recent Debates in Normative Philosophy.” In R. Panasiuk and L. Nowak, eds. Marx’s Social Theory Today, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Volume, vol. 60, pp. 319-347. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1997. “G.A. Cohen’s Refutation of Inegalitarianism and the Quest for a Contemporary Socialist Ethic.” Rethinking Marxism, 9(1): 80-100.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1994. “Marxism, Postmodernism, and Beyond: A Critical Analysis of David Harvey’s Theory of Contemporary Culture.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 14:71-88.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1993. “American Workers and the Future of Minimum Wage Politics.” Review of Radical Political Economics, 25(2):26-49.
Book Review Essays/Book Reviews
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. “Habermasian Critical Social Theory as Antidote?” Review Essay of J. Bohman, New Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991) Human Studies, 22(1):117-123.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1999. Review of Heterogeneities: Race, Gender, Class, Nation and State (U. Mass. Press, 1996) in Passages: Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies, 1(1):133-134.
Kamolnick, Paul. 1994. “Sociology, Anthropology, and the Postmodern Challenge.” Review Essay of N. Lorraine and P. Pels (eds), Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science (Sage: London, 1991), and S. Seidman and D. Wagner (eds.), Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate Over General Theory (Basil Blackwell: Cambridge/Oxford, 1991), in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 24(3): 375-380.
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