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Varenne, Herve H. (hhv1)

Hervé Varenne

Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education
212-678-3190

Office Location:

378 GDodge

Office Hours:

Fall 2024:Tuesdays 1:00 – 3:00p.m., Thursdays 3:00 – 5:00p.m.  Email ahead to notify.Via Zoom, by appointment only: Mondays - Thursdays. Email directly to make appointment.

Âé¶¹Ô­´´ Affiliations:

Educational Background

License-ès-Lettres, Université d'Aix-Marseille, 1968
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972

Scholarly Interests

Culture, communication, and education with special attention to comparative and historical conditions.  Polity and community theory, particularly as it applies to families, their immediate situations, and their positions in a global humanity as the joint production of all involved.

Selected Publications

  (1977).

(1983)

(Editor. 1986)

 (1992).

, with Ray McDermott (1998).

Volume 1 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, (co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon 2008)

.  Volume 2 of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education, (co-edited with Edmund W. Gordon 2009)

Volume Three of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education Series (Third editor with Linda Lin and Edmund W. Gordon 2010)

a collective book with J. de Wolfe, J. Koyama, G. Oliveira, S. Samaddar, M. Scroggins, D. Souleles, J. Van Tiem, S. Wessler. (2019)

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