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Nina Eliasoph

Expert in volunteer work, civic engagement and grassroots political activism
  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Affiliated Faculty, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Office: (323) 667-2430 Cell: (323) 333-5899

Expertise

  • volunteering
  • nonprofits
  • non-governmental organizations
  • civic engagement and education
  • grassroots political activism
  • American civic and political culture
  • political participation
  • empowerment projects
  • French social theory

Languages

  • French
  • Spanish
  • Russian

Additional Information

Author:

  • Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare’s End, May 2011, Princeton University Press
  • Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, 1998, Cambridge University Press
  • Grassroots Politics and Volunteers in Global Perspective, forthcoming in 2012, Polity Press