KAUFMAN, Jason Andrew 1970-

PERSONAL:

Born 1970. Education: Attended Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA, 1998-99; Harvard University, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1993; Princeton University, M.A., 1996, Ph.D., 1999. Hobbies and other interests: Music.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 648 William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138; fax: 617-496-5794. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, lecturer in sociology, 1998-99; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor, 1999-2003, associate professor of social sciences, 2003—. WPRB-Radio, former host of a weekly music program; Gamelan Galak Tika (percussion ensemble), musician.

MEMBER:

American Sociological Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

George Kahrl Award in Sociology, 2001.

WRITINGS:

For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor to academic journals, including American Journal of Sociology.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A comparative history of the United States and Canada, 1763-1939, focusing on respective efforts to adapt existing political institutions to new territories and peoples; a comparative history of the global diffusion of cricket, with Orlando Patterson and Noel Ngugi; a historical study of the social transformation of the American saloon; a comparative history of innovation and creativity in early twentieth-century folk music from the American South, the bel canto singing tradition in eighteenth-century Italy, and the Balinese gamelan in the middle to late twentieth century; research on the relationship between high school training in arts and music and post-secondary educational attainment.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, November 1, 2002, Charles L. Lumpkins, review of For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity, p. 106.

ONLINE

Jason Andrew Kaufman Home Page,http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/ (January 23, 2003).

Oxford University Press Web site,http://www.oup-usa.org/ (January 23, 2003).*