Sidney Tarrow

        Department of Government and Sociology
        Cornell University
        Ithaca, NY 14853
        Tel: (607) 255-6765
        Fax: (607) 255 4530
        E-mail: sgt2@cornell.edu

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Sociology at Cornell. His research interests span three fields: social movements and parties; local and regional politics; and European and transnational politics.

Tarrow's first book, based on his PhD research in Italy, was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). He then carried out a comparative study of local political elites in Italy and France, published as Between Center and Periphery (Yale, 1977). In the 1980s, he returned to social movements with a collaborative volume with B. Klandermans and H. Kriesi, Between Structure and Action (JAI, 1988); then to a reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960's and early 1970's, Democracy and Disorder: Protest and Politics in Italy, 1965 - 75 (Oxford, 1989). His best known work is Power in Movement: Collective Action, Social Movements and Politics (Cambridge, 1994, 1998). With his collaborators, Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Tarrow has just completed a broad comparative study of contentious politics, social movements, and revolutions, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001). With Doug Imig and their collaborators, he has published a collective volume on transnational politics in Western Europe, Contentious Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).

He currently directs the Workshop on Transnational Contention and teaches Modern European Studies at Cornell. His current research on transnational contention is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Grant #SES-0110788).