Noted sociologist to speak and donate work to Grand Valley

A founder of the reflexive sociology movement in the U.S. will give an address, to the Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society at Grand Valley State University. His lecture, "The Finish of Race or Racism to the Finish? Remembering Leonard Lieberman," will be on Monday, November 19, at 3 p.m. in Pere Marquette room 204 of Kirkhof Center, on the Allendale Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Larry T. Reynolds, emeritus professor of sociology at Central Michigan University, is both a social psychologist and theoretician. He is the author of 15 books and more than 100 articles recognized as groundbreaking for the upcoming generation of sociologists. The libraries at Grand Valley will receive his gift of books to complete the 51-volume set, The Reynolds Series in Sociology.

Reynolds is past president of the North Central Sociological Association and the first recipient of the coveted Charles Horton Cooley Award and the first recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Section Lifetime Achievement Award. Reynolds' legendary teaching style compelled the Michigan Sociological Association to establish a teaching award in his name in 2006.

A deeply impassioned advocate for the victims of malignant human arrangements, Reynolds' work can be traced through the intellectual landscape of racism, poverty and exclusion. His address will honor his late colleague and friend, Leonard Lieberman, an early critic of the very idea of race as a so-called scientific concept, who passed away last year.