CV - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Colin Loader
Professor of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-3317
[email protected]
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Alfred Weber and the Crisis of Culture, 1890-1933. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber: Building a Research Programme.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. With David Kettler and Volker Meja.
Karl Mannheim on Sociology as Political Education. Brunswick NJ: Transaction
Publishers, 2002. With David Kettler.
Trans. and ed., Karl Mannheim, Sociology as Political Education. Brunswick NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 2001. With David Kettler.
The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim: Culture, Politics and Planning.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Weimar Sociology,” in Peter E. Gordon and John P. McCormick, eds, Weimar
Thought: A Contested Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp.
15-34. With David Kettler.
“Karl Mannheim,” in George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky, eds, The New Blackwell
Companion to Major Social Theorists. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011, vol.
1, pp. 469-488.
“From Bildung to Planning: Karl Mannheim as a Refugee,” in Richard Bodek and
Simon Lewis, eds, Fruits of Exile. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
2010, pp. 59-70.
“Karl Mannheim’s Heidelberg Letters,” in Balint Balla et al, eds, Karl Mannheim.
Leben, Werk, Wirkung und Bedeutung für die Osteuropaforschung Hamburg:
Krämer, 2007, pp. 129–147
"Temporizing with Time Wars: Karl Mannheim and the problems of historical time,"
in Time & Society, 13 (2004): 155-172. With David Kettler.
"From Nationalökonomie to Kultursoziologie: Structural Issues in Alfred Weber's
Early Writings," in Gunther Behrmann and Eberhard Demm, eds, Soziologie,
Politik und Kultur. Von Alfred Weber zur Frankfurter Schule. Opladen: Leske und
Burdich, 2003, pp. 43-69.
"Werner Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism," Society, 39, 1 (2001): 71-77.
"Puritans and Jews: Weber, Sombart and the Transvaluators of Modern Society,"
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 26 (2001): 635-653.
Review essay on 9 volumes by and about Alfred Weber, Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, 37 (2001): 203-207.
"Kann ein experimentelles Leben geplant werden? Mannheims zweite
Übergangsperiode," in Martin Endreß and Ilja Srubar, eds, Karl Mannheims
Analyse der Moderne. Mannheims erste Frankfurter Vorlesung von 1930. Edition
und ergänzende Beiträge (Jahrbuch für Soziologiegeschichte 1996). Opladen:
Leske und Budrich, 2000, pp. 171-196.
"Free Floating: the Intelligentsia in the Work of Alfred Weber and Karl Mannheim,"
German Studies Review, 20 (1997): 217-234.
"Thorstein Veblen's Analysis of German Intellectualism: Institutionalism as a
Forecasting Method," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 54 (1995):
339-355. With Rick Tilman.
"Conan Doyle and the Challenge of Medical Specialization," Halcyon, 14 (1992):
155-170.
"Thorstein Veblen, Werner Sombart and the Periodization of History," Journal of
Economics Issues, 25 (1991): 421-29. With Rick Tilman and Jeffrey Waddoups.
"Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet: A Study in Irony," CLIO, 19 (1990): 147-159.
"The Cultural Grounds of Rationalization: Sect Democracy versus the Iron Cage," in
Jeffrey Alexander, Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1989, pp. 101-122. With Jeffrey Alexander.
"Social Language in The Last Laugh," Film and History, 18 (1988): 39-49.
Introduction to (with Jeffrey Alexander) and translation of Max Weber's "'Kirchen'
und 'Secten' in Nordamerika," Sociological Theory, 3 (1985): 1-13.
"The 'Popular Classic' as a Document in Intellectual History,'' History Teacher, 10
(1977): 199-210.
"German Historicism and Its Crisis," Journal of Modern History (On-Demand
Supplement), 48 (1976): 85-119.
Professional papers:
“Karl Mannheim’s Heidelberg Letters,” presented at "Karl Mannheim: Leben, Werk,
Wirkung und Bedeutung für die Osteuropaforschung," Tutzing, Germany, 2-4
March 2006. (By invitation)
"Can an Experimental Life be Planned? Mannheim's Second Transitional Period,"
presented at "Karl Mannheim's Approach to the Analysis of Modern Societies,"
Erlangen, Germany, April 1998. (By invitation)
"Werner Sombart's Jew: A Syntagmatic Analysis," presented at the American
Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, DC, August, 1995.
"Karl Mannheim, Alfred Weber und die Intelligenz," presented at "Karl Mannheim
und seine Zeitgenossen," Collegium Budapest (Institute of Advanced Studies),
Budapest, Hungary, October, 1993. (By invitation)
"Thorstein Veblen and Werner Sombart on the Jews," with Jeffrey Waddoups and
Vernon Mattson, presented at the Western Social Science Association Meetings,
Reno, NV, April, 1991.
"Thorstein Veblen, Werner Sombart and the Periodization of History," with Jeffrey
Waddoups and Rick Tilman, presented at the Allied Social Science Conference,
Association for Evolutionary Economics Sessions, Washington, D.C., December,
1990.
Recognitions (Scholarship):
Morris Award (College of Arts and Letters, UNLV) for Research and Creative Activity,
1987.
Fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), to study and research at the
Sociological Seminar of the Universitat Tübingen, West Germany, 1972-74
TEACHING:
Courses taught at UNLV:
HIST 100 — Hitler and Constitutional Breakdown
HIST 106 — European Civilization since 1648
HIST 388 — Great Personalities: Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Hitler
HIST 423B/623B — Germany since 1848
HIST 435B/635B — Modern European Intellectual History
HIST 435C/635C — Topics in European Cultural and Intellectual History: From
Frankenstein to Tarzan
HIST 435C/635C — Topics in European Cultural and Intellectual History: Berlin in the
1920s
HIST 463/663 — Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST 732D — Graduate Colloquium in German History
HIST 740H — Historiography: European Cultural/Intellectual
Recognitions (Teaching):
Rita Deanin Abbey Teaching Award, 2004
UNLV foundation Distinguished Teacher Award, 2003
UNLV Alumni Association Student Focused Award, 2001
Department Nominee for Abbey Teaching Award, 1988, 1991, 2013
Department Nominee for Morris Teaching Award, 1989
Fellowship, Cooperative Program in History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1966
SERVICE
Recognition (Service):
Donald Schmeidel Lifetime Service Award, College of Liberal Arts, 2006