Keen, Mike. Papers 1933-1997

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Keen, Mike. Papers 1933-1997

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Mike Keen (PhD Notre Dame, 1985) is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Indiana, South Bend. This collection contains copies of FBI files kept on prominent intellectuals, primarily sociologists, suspected of communism. These include W.E.B. DuBois, Margaret Mead, Talcott Parsons, and members of the Frankfurt School. Keen used the files when researching his 1999 book Stalking the Sociological Imagination. The collection also contains some of Keen's research notes and his correspondence with the FBI. The files themselves cover the 1930s through 1960s; Keen's notes and correspondence date from the 1990s.

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