THOMAS JANOSKI
Tom Janoski
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1986
Email: tjanos@email.uky.edu
Research
Professor Janoski's interests include political sociology, immigration and naturalization, citizenship and civil society, lean production and the sociology of work, comparative political economy and social policy, complex organizations and industrial relations, and comparative and historical methodology.
Selected Publications
Professor Janoski has co-authored:
He has also written articles for numerous journals including Social Forces, The Sociological Forum, Sociology of Religion, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and Comparative Social Research.
Professor Janoski is currently conducting studies on immigration and naturalization in twenty advanced industrialized countries.
In the Summer of 2006, Dr. Janoski finished the first draft of a book called The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization Policies in Advanced Industrialized Countries. This work involves a comparative historical study of naturalization rates in 20 OECD countries along with case study comparisons selected groups of countries. It is based on a two year National Science Foundation Grant.
A future project focuses on stress and strains under mature lean production, which involves a study of employees in three Japanese transplants and three American automobiles companies.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1986
Email: tjanos@email.uky.edu
Research
Professor Janoski's interests include political sociology, immigration and naturalization, citizenship and civil society, lean production and the sociology of work, comparative political economy and social policy, complex organizations and industrial relations, and comparative and historical methodology.
Selected Publications
Professor Janoski has co-authored:
- The Handbook of Political Sociology, which is an 800 page volume that came out in May of 2005 with Cambridge University Press (to be translated into Turkish).
- The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State with Alex Hicks. (Cambridge, 1994)
- Citzenship and Civil Society (Cambridge, 1998, and translated into Chinese)
- The Political Economy of Unemployment (University of California Press, and translated into Spanish).
He has also written articles for numerous journals including Social Forces, The Sociological Forum, Sociology of Religion, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and Comparative Social Research.
Professor Janoski is currently conducting studies on immigration and naturalization in twenty advanced industrialized countries.
In the Summer of 2006, Dr. Janoski finished the first draft of a book called The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization Policies in Advanced Industrialized Countries. This work involves a comparative historical study of naturalization rates in 20 OECD countries along with case study comparisons selected groups of countries. It is based on a two year National Science Foundation Grant.
A future project focuses on stress and strains under mature lean production, which involves a study of employees in three Japanese transplants and three American automobiles companies.