Corey Dolgon

Dolgon was born in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island before moving to Cherry Hill, NJ,{{cite web|last1=Fletcher|first1=Allen|title=Cory Dolgon - Worcester Mag|url=https://worcestermag.com/2007/05/10/cory-dolgon/3840|website=Worcester Mag|date=10 May 2007}} where he graduated from Cherry Hill West High School in 1980.{{cite web|last1=High School|first1=Cherry Hill West|title=Cherry Hill West High School class lists|url=https://old-friends.co/school.php?s=18073#1980|website=old-friends.co|publisher=Old Friends}}

Dolgon's undergraduate thesis on folksongs and the American labor movement{{cite web|last1=Dolgon|first1=Corey|title=List of Scholarly Works|url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/stonehill-website/files/pages/corey-dolgon-cv.pdf|website=Amazon}} formed the foundation for a “singing lecture” that he has performed at dozens of colleges and universities and other venues around the country and around the world for almost two decades.{{cite journal|last1=Quartaroli|first1=Tina|title=Sociology at Work|journal=Sociology at Work|date=Winter 2014|url=http://www.aacsnet.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Winter2014SociologyAtWorkIssue2.pdf}}

After working as a dorm director at Boston University and an organizer for the Public Interest research group in Michigan (PIRGIM),{{cite news|last1=Wilkins|first1=Dave|title=Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan on September 15, 1988 · Page 3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/218554566/|work=Newspapers.com|language=en}} Dolgon obtained his PHD at the University of Michigan in 1987. While at the University of Michigan, Dolgon was an environmental activist, an anti-racism activist, a union organizer (Graduate Employees Organization), and a community activist.

He ran for Washtenaw County Commissioner in 1992.{{cite news|last1=Calati|first1=Hope|title=Student Contests Election Statue|url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754894/113|access-date=31 May 2017|work=Michigan Daily Digital Archives|date=September 14, 1992|language=en}}

Dolgon completed his PhD in American culture in 1994, entitled Innovators and Gravediggers: capital restructuring and class formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994.{{cite book|last1=Dolgon|first1=Corey|title=Innovators and gravediggers: capital restructuring and class formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994|date=1994|publisher=University of Michigan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpMeAQAAMAAJ|language=en}} Additionally, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Junk Freedom, published in Critical Sociology, and Dim Mirrors, Dark Glasses: But This is Not Our Fate, published in Humanity & Society.

Dolgon worked with the Friends World Program of Long Island University from 1994 until 1997.{{cite web|last1=Barton|first1=Stephen|title=Urban Seminar on History of Community Organizing|url=https://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers96/caseydiscuss.html|website=comm-org.wisc.edu}} After that, Dolgon began working as a sociology professor at Worcester State College [WSC], where he served as departmental chair from 1999 until 2009. Dolgon also served as editor of Humanity & Society: The Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology Humanity & Society

from 2000 to 2006, and was president of the organization in 2008.{{cite web|last1=Humanist|first1=Sociology|title=The Association for Humanist Sociology|url=https://www.humanist-sociology.org/past-meetings--presidents|website=humanist-sociology.org}}

In 2009, Dolgon became the inaugural director of Stonehill College's Office of Community Based Learning.{{cite web|last1=College|first1=Stonehill|title=Community-Based Learning: An Academic Tool That Opens Eyes, Builds Bonds and Dismantles Walls|url=http://www.stonehill.edu/news-media/news/details/community-based-learning-an-academic-tool-that-opens-eyes-builds-bonds-and-dismantles-walls/|website=www.stonehill.edu|language=en}} He is also a tenured, full professor at Stonehill College. As a scholar, Dolgon has published five books, textbooks and anthologies. His first monograph, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, won two book awards including The Association for Humanist Sociology's 2005 Book of the Year Award{{cite web|last1=Sociology|first1=Humanist|title=Past Award Winners|url=https://www.humanist-sociology.org/past-book-award-winners|website=humanist-sociology.org|access-date=31 May 2017}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and the American Sociology Association's Marxist Section Book of the Year in 2007.{{cite web|last1=Sociology|first1=Marxist|title=Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award|url=http://marxistsociology.org/about-the-section/awards/|website=marxistsociology.org|publisher=American Sociological Association}}

• {{cite book |last=Dolgon |first=Corey |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/-nZUDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Kill it to save it: an autopsy of capitalism's triumph over democracy |date=2017 |publisher=Policy press |isbn=978-1-4473-1713-5 |publication-place=Bristol}}
• {{cite book |last=Dolgon |first=Corey |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Service_Learni/o8TeDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement |last2=Mitchell |first2=Tania D. |author-link2=Tania D. Mitchell |last3=Eatman |first3=Timothy K. |author-link3=Timothy K. Eatman |date=February 1, 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-88326-6 |access-date=}}
• {{cite book |last=Dolgon |first=Corey |title=Social Problems |last2=Baker |first2=Chris |date=2010-08-03 |publisher=SAGE Publications, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7619-2947-5 |publication-place=Los Angeles London}}
• {{cite book |last=Dolgon |first=Corey |title=Pioneers of Public Sociology |last2=Chayko |first2=Mary |author-link2=Mary Chayko |date=March 2010 |publisher=Sloan Pub |isbn=978-1-59738-026-3 |publication-place=Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY}}
• {{cite book |last=Dolgon |first=Corey |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_End_of_the_Hamptons/9qaCg79LA4kC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise |date=2005 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-1958-9 |access-date=}}

Dolgon is married to Deborah Milbauer, a public health consultant and instructor at Northeastern University.{{cite web|last1=Milbauer|first1=Deborah|title=Massachusetts Technical Assistance Partnership for Prevention|url=http://masstapp.edc.org/staff-member/deborah-milbauer|website=masstapp.edc.org|access-date=2017-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307054436/http://masstapp.edc.org/staff-member/deborah-milbauer|archive-date=2016-03-07|url-status=dead}} They have two daughters.{{cite book|last1=Dolgon|first1=Corey|last2=Baker|first2=Chris|title=Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach|date=2010|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=9781483389325|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVtNBQAAQBAJ&q=Deborah%2520Milbauer%2520corey%2520dolgon&pg=PT7|language=en}}

Dolgon's uncle, Herman Dolgon, was a WWII veteran who was a community organizer and activist in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn NY. Herman Dolgon helped organize veterans and supporters to pressure the New York City Housing Authority to build low-income public housing for returning vets. The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Department named a playground for Herman Dolgon in 1951.{{cite web|last1=Parks|first1=NYC|title=Herman Dolgon Playground Highlights : NYC Parks|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/herman-dolgon-playground/history|website=www.nycgovparks.org|language=en}}

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