Charles Camic
{{Short description|American sociologist}}
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| birth_name = Charles Michael Camic
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| fields = Sociology
| workplaces = Northwestern University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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| alma_mater = University of Pittsburgh (B.A., 1973)
University of Chicago (M.A., 1975; Ph.D., 1979)
| thesis_title = Social experience and cultural change: family, schooling, and professions in eighteenth-century Scotland
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| thesis_year = 1979
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| academic_advisors = Donald N. Levine{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-donald-levine-obituary-met-20150510-story.html | title=Donald Levine, believer in liberal arts education, dies at 83 | work=Chicago Tribune | date=10 May 2015 | accessdate=7 June 2017 | author=Goldsborough, Bob}}
| doctoral_students = Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
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| awards = 2011 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association's History of Sociology Section
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Charles Michael Camic (born September 27, 1951){{cite web | url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83209140.html | title=Charles Camic | publisher=Library of Congress | work=Name Authority File | accessdate=7 June 2017}} is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of sociology at Northwestern University. His research focuses on sociological theory, the sociology of science, and historical sociology.{{cite web | url=http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/charles-camic.html | title=Charles Camic | publisher=Northwestern University | work=Department of Sociology Website | accessdate=7 June 2017}}
Education and career
Camic received his B.A. in sociology summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D., also in sociology, from the University of Chicago in 1975 and 1979, respectively. In 1979, he became an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and to full professor in 1988. In 1999, he became the Martindale-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2006, he left the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become the John Evans Professor of sociology at Northwestern, where he was appointed the Lorraine H. Morton Professor in 2016.{{cite web | url=http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/documents/faculty-docs/cvs/charles-camic-cv.pdf | title=Charles Camic CV | accessdate=7 June 2017}}{{cite web | url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/06/northwestern-announces-named-professorships | title=Northwestern Announces Named Professorships | publisher=Northwestern University | work=Northwestern Now | date=28 June 2016 | accessdate=7 June 2017}}
Editorial activities
From 1999 to 2003, Camic was the co-editor-in-chief of the American Sociological Review, along with Franklin D. Wilson.{{cite web | url=http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/julaug99/profile.html | title=Charles Camic/Franklin Wilson: A Profile of the New ASR Editors | publisher=American Sociological Association | work=Footnotes | date=July–August 1999 | accessdate=7 June 2017 | author=Wright, Erik Olin}} As of February 2017, he is a senior editor for Theory and Society.
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