David Swartz

Retired from full-time teaching, David L. Swartz is currently Visiting Researcher in the Department of Sociology and occasional lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Boston University. He is one of the editors of the new online journal Theory and Social Inquiry. He was among the founders and previous co-chair of the Political Sociology Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research. He was also Chair of the History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University and a licence and maitrise in sociology from the University of Paris V-René Descartes and a BA from Goshen College.

His most recent book is The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity (Routledge 2024). An earlier book, Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press 2013) was co-winner of the American Sociological Association History of Sociology Section Best Book Award in 2014. Two previous books on the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago 1997) and After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (co-edited with Vera L. Zolberg) (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004) are widely cited in the social sciences. His general research interests include political sociology, elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory. He has published numerous scholarly papers on these topics. He is currently researching divisions in American conservatism with particular focus on the attitudes of conservative professors toward the Trump presidency and their affiliations with conservative think tanks.