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Email: cpn@cpn.org Carmen Sirianni is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brandeis University, with a joint appointment at the Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management and the Center for Youth and Communities. He chairs the Sociology Department.
His recent book, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal (University of California Press, 2001) with Lew Friedland, examines the process of civic innovation as an extended social learning process from the 1960s to the present in a variety of arenas. These include community organizing and community development, neighborhood associations, civic environmentalism (watershed movement, ecosystems restoration, environmental justice, land trusts), civic journalism, and healthy communities. Sirianni and Friedland also analyze the emergence of a broad civic renewal movement in recent years, as well as local, state, and federal policies that can foster civic capacity building and problem solving. His current work focuses on youth civic engagement, also with an emphasis on innovative models and movements. These include community youth development (youth councils and commissions, YMCAs, YouthBuild, citywide empowerment strategies); youth organizing; service learning in schools, universities, and community organizations; community-university partnerships; youth environment and media projects. Sirianni and Friedland’s forthcoming book, The Youth of Our Democracy, will also examine public policy to enhance the civic engagement of young people in the United States.
Action research is an essential component of much of Sirianni’s current work. As directors of the Youth Civic Engagement Project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, he and Friedland convened four national strategy conferences in 2001-02 among leading innovators and practitioners, youth leaders, public officials, academics, and foundations. Sirianni serves on the advisory board of the Center for Information and Research for Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), at the University of Maryland, as well as on the evaluation advisory board of the Youth Leadership Development Initiative of the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and the Ford Foundation. The Kettering Foundation will publish The Civic Renewal Movement, which provides a broad mapping and analysis designed for innovators and activists. Professor Sirianni has served as the research director of the Reinventing Citizenship Project, convened in conjunction with the Domestic Policy Council at the White House and the Ford Foundation in 1994. He has also served as senior advisor to the National Commission on Civic Renewal, and to two year-long PBS Democracy Project series, Citizens '96 and Citizens' State of the Union. He has also consulted with National Public Radio and CBS Radio on their democracy projects. He has consulted widely with various organizing networks, federal agencies, and foundations. Professor Sirianni’s article on volunteering and youth empowerment appears in the September 2002 issue of the Brookings Review, and his overview of the civic renewal movement appears in the spring 2002 issue of the National Civic Review. His previous books include Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: the Soviet Experience (Verso, 1982), Work, Community and Power the Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-25 (Temple University Press, 1983), Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy (TUP, 1984, revised edition 1994), Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform (TUP, 1987), Working Time In Transition: the Political Economy of Working Time in Industrial Nations (TUP, 1991), and Working in the Service Society (TUP, 1996). He is editor of the 45-volume series, Labor and Social Change, for Temple University Press. And he has written many articles on employee participation, women's organizations, political theory, working time innovations, workers councils in comparative revolutions, and temporality in social theory. Professor Sirianni has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, co-chair of the Labor and Industrial Relations Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, Visiting Professor in Social Studies at Harvard (where he received the Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Teaching), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Faculty Affiliate of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (Eastern European/Global Studies), and Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. |
