Professor George Lundskow

Contact
Professor George Lundskow
2171 AuSable Hall
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(616) 331-3704
Education
University of Kansas
Ph.D. Sociology
Recent Publications
a. Lundskow, George. 2022. “The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multi-Cultural Reality.” Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
b. Lundskow, George. 2022. “Conspiracies and Restorative Violence in American Culture.” Critical Sociology, February. doi:10.1177/08969205211073703.
c. Lundskow, George and Lauren Langman. 2022. “From Grievance to Insurrection: Authoritarian Populism Today.” Critical Sociology 48, 6: 909–915.
d. Lundskow, George and Lauren Langman. 2020. “Social Character, Social Change, and the Social Future.” Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
e. Lundskow, George. 2020. “The Necessity of Progressive Religion to Foment Progressive Change: A Frommian Argument.” Erich Fromm's Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
f. Lundskow, George. 2020. “Resistance and Revolution in Society Exemplified in Film Noir and Science Fiction in the Baby Boomer and Millennial-GenZ Age.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 103, 2: 184-215.
Fields
Religion, Theory, Social Character, and Historical Change
Courses
- SOC 105-Social Problems
- SOC 360-Social Psychology
- SOC 495-Capstone
Current Research Interests
Social character, history, and religion
Biography
I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kansas in 1999. Since then, I have published numerous articles and books on the social psychology of right-wing populism and American Character. In general, I study the intersection of political-economic and cultural forces that legitimate popular acceptance of economic exploitation, cultural-identity oppression, militarism, and destruction, and at the same time, the forces that promise a more fulfilling, egalitarian, and broadly prosperous future.