Corey Dolgon | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | December 13, 1961
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Spouse | Deborah Milbauer married 2001-present |
Children | Bailey Dolgon, Ruby Dolgon |
Parent(s) | Arlene and Fred Dolgon |
Corey Dolgon is an American author and sociologist. [1]
Dolgon was born in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island before moving to Cherry Hill, NJ, [2] where he graduated from Cherry Hill West High School in 1980. [3]
Dolgon's undergraduate thesis on folksongs and the American labor movement [4] formed the foundation for a “singing lecture” that he has performed at dozens of colleges and universities and other venues around the country and around the world for almost two decades. [5]
After working as a dorm director at Boston University and an organizer for the Public Interest research group in Michigan (PIRGIM), [6] Dolgon obtained his PHD at the University of Michigan in 1987. While at the University of Michigan, Dolgon was an environmental activist, an anti-racism activist, a union organizer (Graduate Employees Organization), and a community activist. [7]
He ran for Washtenaw County Commissioner in 1992. [8]
Dolgon completed his PhD in American culture in 1994, entitled Innovators and Gravediggers: capital restructuring and class formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994. [9] Additionally, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Junk Freedom, published in Critical Sociology, and Dim Mirrors, Dark Glasses: But This is Not Our Fate, published in Humanity & Society.
Dolgon worked with the Friends World Program of Long Island University from 1994 until 1997. [10] After that, Dolgon began working as a sociology professor at Worcester State College [WSC], where he served as departmental chair from 1999 until 2009. [11] Dolgon also served as editor of Humanity & Society : The Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology Humanity & Society from 2000 to 2006, and was president of the organization in 2008. [12]
In 2009, Dolgon became the inaugural director of Stonehill College's Office of Community Based Learning. [13] He is also a tenured, full professor at Stonehill College. As a scholar, Dolgon has published five books, textbooks and anthologies. His first monograph, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, won two book awards including The Association for Humanist Sociology's 2005 Book of the Year Award [14] and the American Sociology Association's Marxist Section Book of the Year in 2007. [15]
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Dolgon is married to Deborah Milbauer, a public health consultant and instructor at Northeastern University. [16] They have two daughters. [17]
Dolgon's uncle, Herman Dolgon, was a WWII veteran who was a community organizer and activist in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn NY. Herman Dolgon helped organize veterans and supporters to pressure the New York City Housing Authority to build low-income public housing for returning vets. The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Department named a playground for Herman Dolgon in 1951. [18]
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