Michael Kimmel
2012
Born	Michael Scott Kimmel (1951-02-26)February 26, 1951 (age 74) New York City, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	Vassar College(A.B.) Brown University(M.A.) University of California, Berkeley(Ph.D.)
Thesis	Absolutism and its discontents: fiscal crisis and political opposition in seventeenth century France and England (1981)
Academic work
Institutions	Stony Brook University
Main interests	Gender studies,men's studies,masculinities,men and feminism
Website	michaelkimmel.com
Notes
Spouse   Amy Aronson

Michael Scott Kimmel (born February 26, 1951)^[1] is an American retiredsociologist specializing ingender studies. He was Distinguished Professor of Sociology atStony Brook University inNew York and is the founder and editor of the academic journalMen and Masculinities.^[2] Kimmel is a spokesman of theNational Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)^[3] and a longtime feminist.^[4] In 2013, he founded the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, where he is executive director.^[5] In 2018 he was publicly accused ofsexual harassment.^[6] He filed for retirement whileTitle IX charges were pending; no charges were subsequently filed.^[7]

Born into a secularJewish family in New York City, Kimmel earned anA.B. with distinction fromVassar College in 1972; anM.A. fromBrown University in 1974; andPh.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1981 with adissertation titled:Absolutism and its Discontents: Fiscal Crisis and Political Opposition in Seventeenth Century France and England.^[8][9][1]

Before joining the Stony Brook University faculty in 1987, Kimmel worked as assistant professor of sociology atRutgers University from 1982 to 1986 as well as visiting assistant professor atNew York University.^[8] He returned to his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley, where he was visiting professor from 1992 to 1994.^[8] In the academic year 1992–1993, he was voted "Best Professor" on campus byThe Daily Californian.^[10]

Kimmel is considered a leading figure in the academic subfield ofmen's studies.^[11][12] He has written numerous books on gender and masculinities includingMen's Lives (2010, 8th edition),The Gendered Society (2011, 4th edition),Manhood: a Cultural History (2012, 3rd edition), andGuyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008). He has co-editedThe Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2005) andMen and Masculinities: a Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopedia (2004) which was named "Best of Reference 2004" by theNew York Public Library.^[13] Moreover, he is the editor of a series on genders and sexualities atNew York University Press.^[14] In 1992–1993, Kimmel founded the journalMasculinities which was associated with theAmerican Men's Studies Association. The journal was a precursor to the journalMen and Masculinities which was picked up bySAGE Publications in 1998 and became one of the first academic journals focused on men, with Kimmel as its editor.^[15]

In 2004, Kimmel was one of 15 scholars chosen for innovative scholarship by theCarnegie Corporation of New York. His research title was"Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of the Extreme Right".^[16]

In an article about a "fight club" inMenlo Park, California, Kimmel remarked that there was asadomasochistic thread running through them, and said they "are the male version of thegirls who cut themselves. [...] All day long these guys think they're the captains of the universe, technical wizards. They're brilliant but empty. [...] They want to feel differently. They want to get hit, they want to feel something real."^[17]

Kimmel is married to the journalism and media studies academicAmy Aronson.^[18] The couple has one son.^[9]

Just before receiving the American Sociological Association'sJessie Bernard Award in 2018, Kimmel was accused ofsexual harassment.^[19] Soon after, theChronicle of Higher Education published an article that outlined allegations, including those of a former graduate student who described Kimmel suggesting they have sex six weeks into her graduate course, and later in her career.^[20] The Chronicle article also included a statement by Kimmel, provided by the American Sociological Association, in which he delayed receipt of the award, giving his accusers six months to file a complaint with the American Sociological Association's Committee on Professional Ethics. Kimmel filed for retirement as charges from aTitle IX investigation were pending. No charges from Title IX were ever filed. Since that time one of Kimmel's former graduate students accused him of using outdated language to describe thetrans community, discussingpornography in work-related settings, and assigning non-work related tasks to his advisees.^[7]

• Kimmel, Michael (1988).Absolutism and its Discontents: State and Society in 17th Century France and England. New Brunswick, New Jersey:Transaction.ISBN 978-0-88738-180-5.
• Kimmel, Michael (1990).Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.ISBN 978-0-87722-736-6.
• Kimmel, Michael (1991).Men Confront Pornography. New York:Crown.ISBN 978-0-517-56931-3.
• Kimmel, Michael (1992).Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the U.S., 1776–1990. Boston, Mass.:Beacon Press.ISBN 978-0-8070-6760-4.
• Kimmel, Michael;Danuta Walters, Suzanna.Intersections: transdisciplinary perspectives on genders and sexualities. New York:New York University Press.OCLC 800925019.
• Kimmel, Michael, ed. (1995).The Politics of Manhood. Philadelphia:Temple University Press.ISBN 978-1-56639-365-2.
• Kimmel, Michael, ed. (1996) [1987].Changing Men: New Directions in the Study of Men and Masculinity. Newbury Park, California: SAGE Publications.ISBN 978-0-8039-2996-8.
• Kimmel, Michael; Aronson, Amy, eds. (2004).Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California:ABC-CLIO.ISBN 978-1-57607-774-0.
• Kimmel, Michael;Hearn, Jeff;Connell, Raewyn, eds. (2005).Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, Calif.:SAGE Publications.ISBN 978-0-7619-2369-5.
• Kimmel, Michael (2005).The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity. Albany, New York:State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-0-7914-6337-6.
• Kimmel, Michael (2008).Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. New York:Harper.ISBN 978-0-06-083135-6.
• Kimmel, Michael; Ferber, Abby L., eds. (2010) [2003].Privilege: a reader (2nd ed.). Boulder, Colorado:Westview Press.ISBN 978-0-8133-4426-3.
• Kimmel, Michael (2010).Misframing men: the politics of contemporary masculinities. New Brunswick, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press.ISBN 978-0-8135-4762-6.
• Kimmel, Michael;Messner, Michael (2010) [1989].Men's Lives (8th ed.). Boston, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon.ISBN 978-0-205-69294-1.
• Kimmel, Michael (2011) [2000].The gendered society (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-539902-8.
• Kimmel, Michael;Aronson, Amy (2011).Sociology now: the essentials (2nd ed.). Boston:Allyn & Bacon.ISBN 978-0-205-73199-2.
• Kimmel, Michael (2012) [1996].Manhood in America: A Cultural History (3rd ed.). New York:Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-978155-3.
• Kimmel, Michael (2013).Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. New York:Nation Books.ISBN 978-1-56-858696-0.
• Kimmel, Michael (2018).Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into―and Out of―Violent Extremism. University of California Press.ISBN 978-0520292635.

• Kimmel, Michael S. (September 1987). "Men's responses to feminism at the turn of the century".Gender & Society.1 (3):261–283.doi:10.1177/089124387001003003.JSTOR 189564.S2CID 145428652.
• Kimmel, Michael S. (1994). "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity". In Brod, Harry; Kaufman, Michael (eds.).Theorizing Masculinities. Newbury Park: Sage Publications. pp. 119–141.ISBN 9780803949041.
• Kimmel, Michael S. (May–June 2001)."The kindest un-cut: feminism, Judaism, and my son's foreskin".Tikkun.16 (3):43–48. Archived fromthe original on June 14, 2016.
• Kimmel, Michael S. (November 2002). "'Gender symmetry' in domestic violence: a substantive and methodological research review".Violence Against Women.8 (11):1332–1363.doi:10.1177/107780102237407.S2CID 74249845.Pdf.
• Kimmel, Michael S.; Smith, Tyson (Spring 2005). "The hidden discourse of masculinity in gender discrimination law".Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.30 (3):1827–1849.doi:10.1086/427524.S2CID 145298430.
• Kimmel, Michael S.; Llewellyn, Cheryl (2012). "Homosexuality, gender nonconformity, and the neoliberal state".Journal of Homosexuality.59 (7):1087–1094.doi:10.1080/00918369.2012.699865.PMID 22925062.S2CID 7117158.
• Kimmel, Michael S. (Summer 2012)."When history intervenes".Contexts.11 (3): 80.doi:10.1177/1536504212456192.S2CID 147535060.
• Kimmel, Michael S.; Coston, Bethany M. (2013)."White men as the new victims: reverse discrimination cases and the men's rights movement".Nevada Law Journal.13 (2): 5.

• Faculty page for Kimmel Stony Brook University
• Transcript of an interview with Kimmel in thePBS documentaryNo Safe Place: Violence Against Women, March 27, 1998
• Appearances onC-SPAN

Articles online

• "Gender Equality: Not for Women Only", a lecture prepared forInternational Women's Day Seminar,European Parliament,Brussels, March 8, 2001
• "Gender, Class and Terrorism",The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 8, 2002
• "Toward A Pedagogy of the Oppressor",Tikkun, November/December 2002
• "About a Boy",Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly, volume 100, issue 1, Winter 2003
• "A Black woman took my job – Michael Kimmel argues that it is in men's interest to work for gender equality",New Internationalist 373, November 1, 2004
• "Global Masculinities: Restoration and Resistance",Gender Policy Review

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