Dylan John Riley | |
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Born | 1971 (age 50–51) |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
Thesis | Hegemony and Domination: Civil Society and Regime Variation in Inter-War Europe (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Rebecca Jean Emigh, Michael Mann, Perry Anderson, Carlo Ginzburg |
Influences | Antonio Gramsci |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociologist |
Sub-discipline | Comparative historical research |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
Main interests | civil society,fascism,cultural hegemony |
Dylan John Riley (born 1971) is Professor of Sociology at the University of California,Berkeley,and is on the editorial committee of the New Left Review (NLR). [1] [2] [3] He writes for the NLR [4] and Jacobin. [5]
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