Biography
He grew up in Arkansas, and was in a Franciscan Monastery for a number of years. As a teenager, he attended Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, before going to Stanford University to study physics and mathematics. After studying physics and sociology for almost two years at the University of Warsaw, Poland (as an exchange student from Stanford), he returned to Stanford to take a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969.
He has held teaching appointments at George Washington University, the University of New Hampshire, University of Oslo, Norway; Stockholm University, Sweden; Lund University, Sweden; the University of Uppsala, Sweden; Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE), Portugal and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, among others.
Among his other professional engagements, he has been Jean Monnet Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2002; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Spring, 2002, Spring, 2004–2008; Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Spring, 1992; Autumn, 1998), and Fellow at the European University Institute (Spring, 1998).
Read more about this topic: Tom R. Burns
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)