Marc Dixon

Email:  Marc.D.Dixon@Dartmouth.edu

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 105
Hanover, NH  03755
603-646-9041

Ohio State University, Ph.D. 2005
Ohio State University, M.A., 2001
University of Vermont, B.A., 1998

Curriculum Viate

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

• Socy 15  Sociological Classics (Formerly Socy 12) (syllabus)
• Socy 21  Political Sociology (syllabus)
• Socy 79  Labor Movements (syllabus)

Selected Publications

• Dixon, Marc. 2008. "Movements, Countermovements, and Policy Adoption:  The Case of Right-to-Work Activism." Social Forces 87:473-500
• Dixon, Marc., 2007. "Limiting Labor:  Business Political Mobilization and Union Setback in the States." Journal of Policy History 19:313-344.
• Van Dyke, Nella, Marc Dixon and Helen Carlon. 2007. "Manufacturing Dissent:  Labor Revitalization, Union Summer, and Student Protest." Social Forces 86:193-214.
• Jacobs, David and Marc Dixon. 2006. "The Politics of Labor-Management Relations: Detecting the Conditions that Affect Changes in Right-to-Work Laws" Social Problems 53:118-137.
• Dixon, Marc, Vincent J. Roscigno and Randy Hodson. 2004. "Unions, Solidarity, and Striking." Social Forces 83:3-33.
• Dixon, Marc and Vincent J. Roscigno. 2003. "Status, Networks, and Social Movement Participation: The Case of Striking Workers." American Journal of Sociology 108:1292-1327.

Current Projects

• The Regulation of Social Movements: Labor and Civil Rights in the South, 1940-1960.
• Comparative analyses of the determinants and outcomes of social movement coalitions.

Faculty Research and Teaching Interests

• Sociology of Work and Labor
• Collective Behavior and Social Movements
• Political Sociology
• Historical Sociology