LENSKI, Gerhard Emmanuel, Jr. 1924-

PERSONAL: Born August 13, 1924, in Washington, DC; son of Gerhard Emmanuel and Christine (Umhau) Lenski; married Jean Virginia Cappelmann, 1948 (died, 1994); married Ann Bonar Blalock, 1996; children: (first marriage) Jean, Robert, Katherine, Richard; (second marriage; stepchildren) Susan, Kathleen, James. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1950.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Paradigm Publishers, 3124 Noble Ct., Boulder, CO 80301. E-mail—aglenski@earthlink.net.

CAREER: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, began as instructor, became professor, 1950-63; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, professor of sociology and research professor in Institute for Research in Social Science, 1963-73, alumni distinguished professor, 1973-92, professor emeritus, 1992—, department chair, 1969-72, chair, Division of Social Sciences, 1976-78. Military service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 1943-45.

MEMBER: American Sociological Association (member of council, 1965-67; vice president, 1969-70), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fellow), Sociological Research Association, Southern Sociological Society, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Class of 1923 award for teaching excellence, University of Michigan, 1959; LL.D., Wittenberg University, 1964; Guggenheim fellow, 1972-73; International Research and Exchanges Board, senior faculty exchange fellow in Poland, 1978, and Hungary, 1988; American Sociological Association Award, 2002, for a career of distinguished scholarship.

WRITINGS:

American Social Classes: Statistical Strata or SocialGroups?, 1952.

(Coauthor) Principles of Sociology, Holt (New York, NY), 1956.

The Religious Factor: A Sociological Study ofReligion's Impact on Politics, Economics, and Family Life, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1961, reprinted, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1977.

Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1966.

Human Societies: A Macrolevel Introduction to Sociology, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1970, 2nd edition (with Jean Lenski) published as HumanSocieties: An Introduction to Macrosociology, 1974, 9th edition (with Patrick Nolan), Paradigm Publishers (Boulder, CO), 2003.

(Editor) Current Issues and Research in Macrosociology, E. J. Brill (Leiden, Netherlands), 1984.

Contributor to books. Contributor to sociology journals in the United States and abroad.

Some of Lenski's writings have been published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, and Romanian.