Author Biography
Michael D. Kennedy (@Prof_Kennedy) – professor of sociology and international and public affairs at Brown University. Throughout his career, Kennedy has addressed East European social movements and systemic change with recent engagements around both Ukraine and Kosova. For the last 20 years, he also has worked in the sociology of public knowledge, global transformations, and cultural politics, with particular focus on social movements and universities. Recent political transformations within the USA and across the world have moved him towards a more knowledge cultural and public sociology, focusing especially on how communities of discourse use various kinds of questions, styles of reasoning, and forms of evidence to identify the qualities of justice and liberation defining various forms of social organisation and modes of transformation. In the fall of 2022, he served as Interim Director of the Brown University Contemplative Studies concentration.