Daniel Huebner
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation FellowRobert Park Lecturer
MA, Sociology, University of Chicago 2008
BS, Sociology, Montana State University 2006
BA, Political Science, Montana State University 2006
Email: huebner
Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~huebner/
Curriculum Vita: CV
My dissertation uses George Herbert Mead as a case study to show that canonization is better understood as part of a larger knowledge production process, rather than the result of individual genius or retrospective construction of classic works. Through examinations of the compilation of posthumous texts attributed to Mead, the interactions of Mead and his students in the classroom, and the social contexts of Mead's public speeches, I analyze the problematic boundary between Mead and his interpreters. I also identify particular institutional changes and social practices that created dominant understandings of Mead's work, and I challenge those understandings by reference to newly uncovered writings by Mead and sets of notes from his courses. By taking into account the complexities of changing interpretations of Mead's work and the developing relations between his work and social environment, my dissertation shows how claims to authority and knowledge are made in scholarship.
My other current research (1) traces the relations between European and American philosophers and scientists in the early twentieth century in order to examine the importance social contexts in the emergence, interpretation, and diffusion of ideas; and (2) examines historical transformations in the systematic organization of information in modern society.
Research Interests
Social Theory, Social Studies of Knowledge, Culture, Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, History of the Social SciencesSelected Publications
Huebner, Daniel. 2008. “Toward a Sociology of the State and War: Emil Lederer’s Political Sociology”. Archives Europeennes de Sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49(1): 65-90.Huebner, Daniel. (forthcoming). "The Construction of Mind, Self, and Society: The Social Process Behind G. H. Mead’s Social Psychology”. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 48(2).
Huebner, Daniel. (forthcoming). "Wilhelm Jerusalem's Sociology of Knowledge in the Dialogue of Ideas". Journal of Classical Sociology, Vol. 13(3).
