Jack Nusan Porter

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Nusia Jakub Puchtik was born December 2, 1944, in Rovno, Ukraine, to Jewish-Ukrainian partisan parents Fayge and Israel Puchtik. The family emigrated to the United States on June 20, 1946, and their name was Anglicized to Porter.{{Cite web |title=Porter, Jack Nusan {{!}} Archival and Manuscript Collections |url=https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/1472 |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=findingaids.library.northwestern.edu}}

He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Washington High School.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

He moved to Israel and studied at the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz.{{cn|date=April 2025}} Porter attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1963 to 1967, majoring in sociology and Hebrew Studies. In 1967, he began a PhD in sociology at Northwestern University.

Research topics included: Sociology and National Socialism: the lives of Edward Yarnall Hartshorne and Talcott Parsons of Harvard University in the 1940s, the history of Holocaust studies at Harvard University since the 1930s to the present.

In 1976, Porter founded the Journal of the History of Sociology; it published its first issue in 1978.{{cite journal|title=Review of The Journal of the History of Sociology, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1978|first=J. David|last=Lewis|journal=Contemporary Sociology|volume=9|issue=2|date=March 1980|pages=263–264|doi=10.2307/2066046|jstor=2066046}}; {{cite journal|title=The Journal of the History of Sociology: Its Origins and Scope|first=Jack Nusan|last=Porter|journal=The American Sociologist|volume=35|issue=3|date=Fall 2004|pages=52–63|doi=10.1007/s12108-004-1017-2|jstor=27700395|s2cid=143925482}}

In the spring of 2012, Porter ran for United States Representative as a write-in candidate in Massachusetts' Fourth District following the departure of incumbent Representative Barney Frank. Running as a Democrat, Porter described himself as a "radical-libertarian-progressive" and aligned his views with those of Representative Ron Paul and Senator Bernie Sanders.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/write-in | title=The Campaign Trail: Write-In | magazine=The New Yorker | date=April 9, 2012 | accessdate=November 13, 2019 | author=McGrath, Ben}} Porter's write-in candidacy gained less than 0.1% of the vote; Joseph Kennedy III won the primary with approximately 90% of the vote and was later elected to his first term in Congress in the 2012 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:2012/year_to:2012/office_id:5/stage:General|title=Massachusetts Election Statistics|date=2012-11-05|website=Massachusetts SOS|access-date=2019-12-05}}

Porter's books include:

• Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973 and based on his sociology Ph.D. dissertation from Northwestern University, June 1971){{cite journal|last=O'Neill|first=William L.|date=June 1974|doi=10.2307/1868089|issue=3|journal=The American Historical Review|jstor=1868089|pages=911–912|title=Review of Student Protest and the Technocratic Society|volume=79}}
• Jewish Radicalism (Grove Press, 1973; with Peter Dreier){{cite journal|last=Winter|first=J. Alan|date=September 1974|doi=10.2307/2062009|issue=5|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=2062009|pages=441–442|title=Review of Jewish Radicalism|volume=3}} {{cite journal|last=Gerstein|first=Arnold A.|date=September 1974|issue=1|journal=American Jewish Historical Quarterly|jstor=23880260|pages=79–81|title=Review of Jewish Radicalism|volume=64}}
• The Sociology of American Jews (University Press of America, 1978, 1980){{cite journal|last=Verbit|first=Mervin F.|date=January 1980|doi=10.2307/2065627|issue=1|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=2065627|pages=119–120|title=Review of The Sociology of American Jews|volume=9}} {{cite journal|last=Sarna|first=Jonathan D.|date=May 1983|issue=2|journal=Modern Judaism|jstor=1396083|pages=237–241|title=The essence of American Judaism|volume=3|doi=10.1093/mj/3.2.237}}
• The Jew as Outsider (University Press of America, 1981; The Spencer Press, 2014){{cite journal|last=Martindale|first=Don|date=April–June 1985|issue=2|journal=International Journal on World Peace|jstor=20750921|pages=101–118|title=Review of Confronting history and Holocaust and The Jew as Outsider|volume=2}}{{cite journal|last=Laforse|first=Martin|doi=10.1017/s0090599200033985|issue=2|journal=Nationalities Papers|pages=303–305|title=Review of The Jew as Outsider|volume=12|year=1984|s2cid=189379441 }}
• Jewish Partisans: A Documentary of Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union During World War II (University Press of America, 1982; The Spencer Press, 2013){{cite journal|last=Laforse|first=Martin|doi=10.1017/s0090599200033973|issue=2|journal=Nationalities Papers|pages=301–303|title=Review of Jewish Partisans|volume=12|year=1984|s2cid=165414450 }}
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution: An Historical Bibliography (Garland Publishing, 1982){{cite journal|last=Leuner|first=P. S.|date=December 1988|issue=4|journal=The British Journal of Sociology|jstor=590520|pages=640–641|title=Review of Conflict and Conflict Resolution|volume=39|doi=10.2307/590520}}
• Genocide and Human Rights: A Global Anthology (University Press of America, 1982){{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Earl|date=July 1985|doi=10.2307/2069221|issue=4|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=2069221|pages=508–509|title=Review of Genocide and Human Rights|volume=14}} {{cite journal|last=Leuteritz|first=Karl|issue=1|journal=Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America|jstor=43109412|pages=67–70|title=Review of Genocide and Human Rights|volume=18|year=1985}}
• Confronting History and Holocaust (University Press of America, 1983; new edition with bibliography of Porter's works, The Spencer Press, 2014)
• Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of the Homosexuals During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 1991, with Rudiger Lautmann and Erhard Vismar; 20th Anniversary edition, The Spencer Press, 2011){{cite journal|last=Poll|first=Carol|date=April 1995|doi=10.2307/1319357|issue=2, Teaching about Inequality and Diversity: Age, Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity|journal=Teaching Sociology|jstor=1319357|pages=186–189|title=Review of The Sociology of Jewry, The Sociology of Genocide, and Sexual Politics in the Third Reich|volume=23}}
• The Sociology of Genocide: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)
• The Sociology of Jewry: A Curriculum Guide (American Sociological Association, 1992)
• Women in Chains: On the Agunah (Jason Aronson, 1995){{cite journal|last=Chrisler|first=Joan C.|date=January 1996|issue=1|journal=Contemporary Jewry|jstor=23451118|pages=181–182|title=Review of Women in Chains|volume=17}} {{cite journal|last=Jackson|first=Bernard S.|doi=10.2307/1051426|issue=1/2|journal=Journal of Law and Religion|jstor=1051426|pages=235–245|title=A Jewish law miscellany|volume=17|year=2002|s2cid=232344590 }}
• The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives (University Press of America, 2006){{cite journal|last=Worrell|first=Mark P.|date=July 2008|issue=4|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=20444229|pages=356–357|title=Review of The Genocidal Mind|volume=37|doi=10.1177/009430610803700435|s2cid=143464210}}
• Is Sociology Dead? Social Theory and Social Praxis in a Post-Modern Age (University Press of America, 2008){{cite journal|last=Mishra|first=Aditya K.|date=March 2009|issue=2|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=20617242|pages=196–197|title=Review of Is Sociology Dead?|volume=38|doi=10.1177/009430610903800254|s2cid=148699632}}
• Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany: The Persecution of the Homosexuals and Lesbians During the Holocaust (The Spencer Press, 2011, 2023)
• The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
• Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union During World War II (in Russian and English, Academic Studies Press, 2022)
• Can Mathematical Models Predict Genocide? (The Spencer Press, 2022)
• Can Mathematical Models Predict Terrorist Acts? (Academic Studies Press, 2022; with Trevor Jones)
• The Wit and Wisdom of Erich Goldhagen on Hitler, Nazism, the Holocaust and Other Genocides (The Spencer Press, 2023)
• If Only You Could Bottle It: Memoirs of a Radical Son (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
• L'Matara (For the Purpose): Jewish Partisan Poetry and Prose from the DP Camps of Europe (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

• 2004: Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology for his founding of the Journal of the History of Sociology, 1977–1982. He shared the award with Glenn Jacobs and Alan Sica.{{cite web |url= https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/sections/sites/history-sociology/awards |title= American Sociological Association, History of Sociology, Lifetime Achievement Award |work= American Sociological Association |date= 14 April 2014 |access-date= November 12, 2019}}
• 2009: The Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service from the American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict (for his work in genocide and Holocaust studies).{{cite web |url= https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/peace-war-and-social-conflict/section-peace-war-and-social-conflict-past-award-recipients |title= American Sociological Association, Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict, Robin Williams Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service |work= American Sociological Association |date= 3 October 2011 |access-date= November 12, 2019}}

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