Nisbet, Robert A.

Biographical Note

• 1913, Sept. 30: Born, Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1936 - 1939 : A.B., M.A., and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
• 1936: Married Emily Heron (divorced 1970)
• 1939 - 1952 : Faculty, Social Institutions and Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
• 1943 - 1945 : U.S. Army staff sergeant serving in the Pacific during World War II
• 1953: Published Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press
• 1953 - 1972 : Professor of sociology, University of California, Riverside, Calif.
• 1953 - 1963 : Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Calif.
• 1960 - 1963 : Vice chancellor, University of California, Riverside, Calif.
• 1963 - 1964 : Guggenheim fellow
• 1965: Published Emile Durkheim: Selected Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall
• 1966: Published The Sociological Tradition. New York: Basic Books
• 1968: Published Tradition and Revolt: Historical and Sociological Essays. New York: Random House
• 1969: Published Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development. New York: Oxford University Press
• 1970: Published The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Married Caroline Burks Kirkpatrick
• 1971: Published The Degradation of the Academic Dogma: The University in America, 1945-1970. New York: Basic Books
• 1972 - 1974 : Professor of sociology and history, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
• 1973: Published The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Edited Social Change, a volume in the Key Concepts in the Social Sciences series, edited by Philip Rieff and Bryan Wilson. New York: Harper and Row
• 1974: Published The Sociology of Emile Durkheim. New York: Oxford University Press
• 1974 - 1978 : Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1975: Published Twilight of Authority. New York: Oxford University Press
• 1976: Published Sociology as an Art Form. New York: Oxford University Press
• 1978: Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities emeritus, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Coeditor with T. B. Bottomore, A History of Sociological Analysis. New York: Basic Books
• 1978 - 1980 : Resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
• 1980: Adjunct scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Published History of the Idea of Progress. New York: Basic Books
• 1982: Published Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
• 1986: Published Conservatism: Dream and Reality. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press
• 1987: Published The Making of Modern Society. New York: New York University Press
• 1988: Published The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America. New York: Harper & Row
• 1990: Published Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway
• 1992: Published Teachers and Scholars: A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers
• 1996, Sept. 9: Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Robert A. Nisbet Papers, 1949-1994, (bulk 1953-1990), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)