William S. Evan, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Management

 

Office: 249 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
Telephone: (215) 898-7668
Fax: (215) 573-2081
Email: evanw@wharton.upenn.edu
Full CV

Education:

1946  A.B., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1954  Ph.D., Cornell University, New York, NY

Research:

  • Law and Society
  • International Law and Relations
  • Historical Sociology
  • Organizational Dynamics, Organizational Theory
  • Economic Sociology
  • Management

Selected Publications:

1980. The Sociology of Law, New York: The Free Press, . (Translated into Chinese, 1996).

1981.  Knowledge and Power in a Global Society, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

1987. (With Stephen Hilgartner) The Arms Race and Nuclear War, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall

1980.  Social Structure and Law, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

1993. Organization Theory: Research and Design, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.

1995. (With Ved P. Nanda) Nuclear Proliferation and the Legality of Nuclear Weapons, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc.

2002. (With Mark Manion) Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters, Prentice Hall.

2002 (With Francis A. Boyle) “ Kashmir: Invoking International Law to Avoid Nuclear War,” Counter Punch, June 4, 2002.

2002 (With Mark Manion) “Technological Catastrophes: Their Causes and Prevention,” Technology in Society, 24 (2002) 207-224.

2004 “The Global Arms Trade,” Presented at the 13 th World Congress of the International Association of Educators for World Peace, May 16-18, 2003 in Lake Maggiore, Italy, published in William M. Evan, ed., War and Peace in an Age of Terrorism. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.

2004 “Voting Technology, Political Institutions, Legal Institutions and Civil Society: A Study of the Hypothesis of Cultural Lag in Reverse.” in History and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, July 2004, pp. 135-183.

2006 (With Bret B. Hays) “Dual-Use Technology In the Context of the Non-Proliferation Regime.” in History and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 2006, pp.105-113.

 

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