Thomas Cushman (sociologist)

Thomas Cushman (born 1959) ^[1] is an American sociologist. He is the professor of social sciences and sociology at Wellesley College.

Cushman is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights (2011) and founder and editor-at-large of the Journal of Human Rights. ^[2] He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Controversial Ideas . ^[3]

Thomas Orton Cushman received his B.S. degree in psychology from Saint Michael's College in 1981. ^[4] He completed an M.A. degree in sociology at the University of Virginia in 1983 with the thesis Symbols and Social Movements: The Case of the Moral Majority. ^[5] Cushman then earned a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Virginia in 1987 with the thesis Ritual and the Sacralization of the Secular: Social Sources of Conformity and Order in Soviet Society. ^[6]

Bibliography

• Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia (A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1995)
• This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, edited with Stjepan Meštrović (New York University Press, 1996)
• Critical Theory and the War in Croatia and Bosnia (Henry M. Jackson School of International Affairs, University of Washington, 1997)
• George Orwell: Into the 21st Century, with John Rodden (Paradigm, 2005)
• A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, editor (University of California Press, 2005)
• Terror, Iraq and the Left: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics, with Simon Cottee (New York University Press, 2008)
• The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity, edited with Thomas Brudholm (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

References

1. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 1995. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
2. "Thomas Cushman". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
3. "Editorial Board". Journal of Controversial Ideas. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
4. "Alumni Association: Academic Hall of Fame". Colchester, Vermont: Saint Michael's College. April 16, 2005. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
5. Cushman, Thomas Orton (1983). Symbols and Social Movements: The Case of the Moral Majority (Thesis). Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
6. Cushman, Thomas Orton (1987). Ritual and the Sacralization of the Secular: Social Sources of Conformity and Order in Soviet Society (Thesis). Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia. Retrieved 2025-06-04.