Charles C. Moskos

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Charles Constantine Moskos, Jr. (born May 20, 1934 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 31, 2008 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American sociologist and political advisor . He was u. a. Professor at Northwestern University and was considered one of the most influential military sociologists in the country. Moskos was the spiritus rector of the military law practice “ Don't ask, don't tell ”.

Life

Moskos was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934 to Greek immigrants ; he grew up in Albuquerque , New Mexico . Stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany, he did military service with the pioneers of the US Army from 1956 to 1958 . He previously studied sociology at Princeton University (BA 1956) and later at the University of California, Los Angeles (MA 1960 and Ph.D. 1963). From 1964 to 1966 he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 1966 to 1970 he was Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and from 1970 to 2003 Professor, then Professor Emeritus. From 1996 to 2003 he was the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences . His main research interests have been Military Sociology , National Youth Service , Introduction to Sociology, and Greek American Studies ; his studies of African Americans and women in the military are considered seminal.

He was u. a. Fellow (1980/81) and Public Policy Scholar (2002) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , Humanities Fellow / Rockefeller Foundation (1983/84), Guggenheim Fellow (1992/93) and Annenberg Fellow (1994). 1987/88 and 2003 he was a guest on the SLA Marshal Chair of the US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and in 2002 on the Eisenhower Chair at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie . From 1989 to 1997 he was President and Chair of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Chicago, Illinois and from 1983 to 1986 of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution (RC01) of the International Sociological Association . In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Charles C. Moskos (left, 1967)

Moskos was an expert u. a. before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services , the United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs , the United States House Committee on Armed Services, and the United States House Committee on the Budget . In 1992 he became a member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces , in 1998 of the Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues and in 2000/01 of the US Commission on National Security / 21st Century . At the beginning of the 1990s he was the head behind the military law practice “ Don't ask, don't tell ”. He was also an advisor to Nelson Mandela on the implementation of a post- apartheid military in South Africa. In 1999 he was appointed Special Advisor for Anti-Corruption in the Armed Forces by Vice President Al Gore . He was also a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute , a member of the Veterans for America Advisory Board, and a member of the Society of the First Infantry Division . He accompanied combat troops for research purposes in worldwide crisis and conflict areas, etc. a. Vietnam, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo and Iraq. He was also active in the Greek community.

Moskos was the author of numerous books and (specialist) articles, published a. a. in the Wall Street Journal , New York Times , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , Atlantic Monthly , Foreign Affairs, and The New Republic . The WSJ called him the most influential military sociologist.

He was married and the father of two children. His estate, consisting of books and articles, has been in the Pritzker Military Museum & Library ( Dr. Charles C. Moskos Collection ) and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois , since 2009 .

Awards

The following is a selection of his awards:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Charles C. Moskos Collection , Pritzker Military Museum & Library . Retrieved May 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Moskos, Charles C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moskos, Charles Constantine Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2008
Place of death Santa Monica , California