Richard Hamilton

Professor Emeritus
Sociology and Political Science
105F Mershon Center
614.292.2230
hamilton.1@osu.edu

Education
A.B., Liberal Arts, University of Chicago (1950)
M.A., Sociology, Columbia University (1953)
Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University (1963)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Hamilton specializes in political sociology, historical sociology, social theory, and social stratification. Current areas of research interest include political and social change in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, and Germany.

Selected Publications
War Planning: 1914, with Holger H. Herwig (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

America’s New Empire: The 1890’s and Beyond (Transaction Publishers, forthcoming)

President McKinley, War and Empire, Vol. 2: President McKinley and America’s ‘New Empire’ (Transaction Publishers, 2007)

"The Elmira Project — fifty years later," in Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents, ed. by Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Oxford University Press, 2007)

President McKinley, War and Empire, Vol. 1: President McKinley and the Coming of War, 1898 (Transaction Publishers, 2006)

Decisions for War, 1914-1917, with Holger H. Herwig (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

The Origins of World War I, with Holger H. Herwig (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Mass Society, Pluralism, and Bureaucracy: Explication, Assessment and Commentary (Praeger, 2001)

Marxism, Revisionism, and Leninism: Explication, Assessment and Commentary (Praeger, 2000)

The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validation and Verification in the Scholarly Community (Yale University Press, 1996)

The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 1991)

The State of the Masses, with James Wright (Aldine Press, 1986)

Who Voted for Hitler? (Princeton University Press, 1982)

Restraining Myths: Critical Studies of U.S. Social Structure and Politics (Sage Publications, 1975)

Class and Politics in the United States (John Wiley & Sons, 1972)

Affluence and the French Worker in the Fourth Republic (Princeton University Press, 1967)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (1993)
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grants (1981-86)
National Science Foundation Grant (1969-71)
Social Science Research Council, Faculty Research Grant (1966, 1968)

Mershon Projects
The Marxist Rhetoric: On the Relationship of Practice and Theory
War Planning 1914

Richard Hamilton
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science
The Ohio State University