Charles Camic
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago, 1979. Areas of interest include: classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of ideas/knowledge; sociology of science; history of sociology and social thought; historical sociology.
Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Camic was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recent years, his work has centered on examining the social processes by which the social sciences took shape and developed in the United States in the period from 1880 to 1940.
He is currently writing a book on the social origins of Thorstein Veblen's heterodox economics. He recently edited Social Knowledge in the Making (with Michele Lamont and Neil Gross) and Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen (with Geoffrey M. Hodgson)
Source: Northwestern University Department of Sociology
