Jack Goldstone

Jack A. Goldstone is the Hazel Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy at George Mason University. He has previously held positions at the University of California, Northwestern University, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current work in progress is The Collapse of All Authority: A New History of the Rise of the West and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth. Goldstone has received the Distinguished Career in Political Sociology and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career in Comparative-Historical Sociology Awards from the American Sociological Association. He has also received awards from the Historical Association and the International Studies Association, and Fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.