Jeffrey Prager
PROFESSOR
Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley (Sociology) Ph.D., Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute (Psychoanalysis)
Office: 257 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-3743
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
jprager@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Theory/Psychoanalysis, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Cultural Sociology
Research Interests
My current research concerns the problem of the past, and memories of the past, to contemporary self-constitution. Special interest in past social traumas, and the relation between mechanisms of forgiveness and reparations to the creation of post-traumatic solidaristic communities.
Selected Publications
Prager, Jeffrey. "Psychoanalysis and Social Theory," The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Kivisto and Ritzer (eds.), forthcoming
Prager, Jeffrey. 2008. “Healing from History, Psychoanalytic Considerations on Traumatic Pasts and Social Repair.” European Journal of Social Theory 11:405-420.
Prager, Jeffrey. 2006. “Beneath the Surface of the Self: Psychoanalysis and the Unseen Known.” American Journal of Sociology 112:276-290.
Prager, Jeffrey. 2006. “Jump-Starting Timeliness: Trauma, Temporality and the Redressive Community.” Pgs. 229-245, in Time and Memory, edited by Jo Parker, Michael Crawford and Paul Harris. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill.
Prager, Jeffrey. 2005. “Psychoanalysis and Social Theory.” Pgs. 607-610, in The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Volume II, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Prager, Jeffrey. 2003. “Lost Childhood, Lost Generations: The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma.” Journal of Human Rights 2:173-181.
Prager, Jeffrey. 2001. “The Psychology of Collective Memory.” Pgs. 2223-2227, in The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil Smelser and Paul Bates.
Prager, Jeffrey. 1998. Presenting the Past: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Misremembering. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Prager, Jeffrey, and Michael Rustin, eds. 1993. Psychoanalytic Sociology, Volumes I & II. London, England: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Awards
Invited Participant, University of California Humanities Research Institute 2003 Faculty Seminar, "Redress in Social Thought, Law, and Literature"
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Visiting Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA
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