University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Faculty & Research

Tom Janoski

Tom Janoski
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1986

Email: thomas.janoski@uky.edu
Phone: 859-257-4418
Office: 1525 Patterson Office Tower

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 written monographs including:

  • Citzenship and Civil Society (Cambridge, 1998, and translated into Chinese)
  • The Political Economy of Unemployment (University of California Press, and translated into Spanish).

Dr. Janoski's most recent work appears in Citizenship for Aliens by Atsushi Konda and Charles WestThe Handbook of Citizenship Studies by Engin Isin and Bryan Turner, Models of Capitalism by Evelyn Huber, The International Handbook of Labor Market Policy and Evaluation by Gunther Schmid, and Migration, Citizenship, and Ethno-National Identities in the European Union by Marco Martinelli.

He has also written articles for numerous journals including Social Forces, The Sociological Forum, Sociology of ReligionInternational 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.


 
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