My updated CV is available at https://brookcv.wordpress.com/
Dan Brook
Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0122 USA
e-mail: daniel.brook@sjsu.edu / tel: 408-924-2914
CV: https://brookcv.wordpress.com
Faculty Page: https://www.sjsu.edu/people/daniel.brook/
CV in English CV en español / Spanish CV in 中文 / Chinese
EDUCATION
University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Ph.D. in Sociology, June 1997
M.A. in Sociology, December 1995
Doctoral Dissertation: Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China
Honors:
UC Davis Fellowship – 1996 – 1997
2nd Place Winner, Society for the Study of Social Problems Essay Contest – 1997
Department of Sociology Travel Grant – 1996
GSA Travel Grant – 1996
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
M.A. in Political Science, May 1992
Master’s Thesis: The Political Economy of North American Free Trade
Honors:
Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement – 1992
Johnson / Kolb Scholarship for Students with Disabilities – 1992
Jenkins Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Political Action – 1992
First Place Winner of CFA / LARC Student Essay Contest – 1991 – 1992
Wasserman Prize for Best Paper by a Graduate Student – 1991
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
B.A. in Socio-Political Economy, May 1988
Senior Thesis: Distribution & Disillusionment: The Socio-Political Economy of Development in Mexico
Honors: Arista Honor Society – 1988
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Instructor, San Jose State University, Spring 1997, Spring 2005 – date
Instructor for courses in: Introduction to Sociology; Social Problems; Global Society; Social Change; City Life; Political Sociology; War and Violence; Writing; Community Involvement and Personal Growth; and Founder and Leader of Hands on Thailand (Service Learning in Chiang Mai, 2015 – present).
Supervisor and advisor of MA Thesis, teaching assistants, research assistants, service learning projects, independent studies, a student organization (Spartan Veg Club), and a mentor to McNair Scholars.
Just-in-Time Funds for Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (RSCA), 2017
Faculty Award for Recognition of Excellence for Service Learning, May 2016
SJSU Alumni Scholar’s Most Influential Professor, 2014
Member, California Faculty Association, 2005 – date
Instructor, City College of San Francisco, Fall 1994, Spring 2008, Spring 2010 – Fall 2019
Instructor for courses in American Politics and Comparative Politics; Co-Instructor for a course in Political Action.
Supervisor for honors projects, service learning projects, research assistants, and independent studies.
Instructor and Auditor, Excelsior College, Fall 2009 – Fall 2010
Instructor and course auditor of online courses in Sociology.
Instructor, Cañada College, Fall 2008
Instructor for a course in Introduction to Sociology.
Instructor, Santa Clara University, Fall 2005 – Spring 2006
Instructor for courses in Social Problems; Advisor for service learning projects.
Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Fall 2001 – Summer 2004
Instructor for courses in: Environmental Sociology; Sociology of Work; Organizations; Sociology of Education; Urban Sociology; and Social Change.
Advisor for service learning projects, independent studies, and senior theses. Supervisor of graduate student assistants.
Lecturer, University of California, Davis, Fall 1997 – Summer 2001
Instructor for courses in: Social Problems; Social Stratification; Political Sociology; Corporations & Society; Social Movements; Welfare; People, Work, & Technology; Occupations; Community Organizing; and the Internship and Research Practicum.
Advisor for independent studies, honors programs, internships, service-learning projects, and a student organization. Supervisor of graduate student assistants.
Instructor, San Francisco State University, Fall 1991 – Summer 1992, Spring 1997, Spring 2001
Instructor for courses in: Cities in Global Society and Environmental Sociology. Co-Instructor for three courses in American Politics. Supervisor of assistant.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Spring 1994 – Spring 1996
Teaching Assistant for: Corporations & Society; Social Inequality; Complex Organizations; American Society; Social Welfare; and Collective Behavior.
Instructor, California State University Hayward (CSU East Bay), Summer 1993
Co-Instructor for a course in American Politics.
Research Assistant, Institute for Food and Development Policy, Summer 1992
Conducted research on the environmental effects of North American free trade.
Research Assistant and Reader, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1992
Engaged in research and graded research papers for a course in the History of Mexico.
Assistant Head Teacher, Child Study Center, San Francisco, 1990 – 1991
Teacher of preschool children and supervisor of college interns in a multicultural, observational setting.
Teacher, ELS International, Bangkok, Thailand, 1989 – 1990
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language to Thai people of various ages and professions.
Teacher, Public School 225, Brooklyn, New York, 1988 – 1989
Teacher of English as a Second Language to recent immigrant children.
Teaching Assistant, Clark University, Spring 1988
Leader of weekly group discussions that supplemented course work in classical sociological theory.
Editor, John D. Blydenburgh, Worcester, Massachusetts, Spring 1988
Editor of interviews for a social research project.
BOOKS
Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways to Be Happy (Beacon, 2021). A shorter and different Korean version is available at 행복하게 사는 방법: 행복으로 가는 77가지 이상의 길들.
Sweet Nothings (Hekate, 2020)
Eating the Earth: The Truth About What We Eat (Smashwords, 2020). Translated into Spanish/Español, Italian/Italiano, German/Deutsch, French/Français(e), Polish/Polski, Chinese/中文, Korean/한국어, Thai/ไทย, Vietnamese/Tiếng Việt, Mongolian/монгол, Burmese/ဗမာဘာသာစကား, and Hebrew/עִברִית
Wonderful Words (Smashwords, 2019-2022)
Colorquations (Smashwords, 2017)
Brook’s Book (Smashwords, 2017-2022)
Go! Travel Quotes to Send You Off (Smashwords, 2015-2022)
Understanding Society, 5th ed. (BVT Publishing, 2013) (co-authored)
JUSTICE in the KITCHEN (Prophet Isaiah Press, 2013) (Introduction)
Daydreaming in Kyoto (Smashwords, 2013)
Social Truths (Smashwords, 2012). Translated into Farsi (Persian)/فارسی by Amir Gharibeshgi, PhD
Che Forever (Smashwords, 2009) (English/Español)
An Alef-Bet Kabalah (Smashwords, 2009)
Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China (University Press of America, 2005)
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“Eh?”, Intersect Literary & Arts Journal, forthcoming
“Freedom”, Bloom Literary Magazine, forthcoming
“Lag B’Omer & Veganism: Making Every Day Count“, The Times of Israel, May 18, 2022 (co-authored with Richard Schwartz). “Lag B’Omer & Vegetarianism: Making Every Day Count”, The Jewish Voice, June 2006. “Lag B’Omer & Vegetarianism (or Veganism): Making Every Day Count”, Jewcology, May 22, 2016
“Health Is Wealth“, Visible Magazine, May 11, 2022
“The Cow in the Room“, Sage Magazine [Yale School of the Environment], March 10, 2022
“The Birds and the Bees“, Academy of the Heart and Mind, November 24, 2021. Republished in The Story Cabinet, May 2022
“In a Valley“, Shorts Magazine, Autumn 2021
“Learning From History?“, Medium, September 12, 2021
“Perhaps“, Green Shoe Sanctuary, June 30, 2021. A slightly revised version was published in Tamarind, Autumn 2021. Featured on Great Opening Lines.
“Your Kind“, MONO., June 24, 2021
“See What I Mean?”, Otherwise Engaged Literary and Arts Journal, June 2021
“Reversing Our Climate Crisis“, Visible Magazine, May 17, 2021. Republished in New Mexico Vegan, July 2021
“Why Not?“, Uproar, Lawrence House Centre for the Arts, April 29, 2021. A slightly revised version is published in Tiferet, Fall 2021
“How to Succeed at Globalization While Failing the World“, The International, April 26, 2021
“The Cost of Meat“, Vox Populi, April 17, 2021. Republished in New Mexico Vegan, May 2021
“We Are The Forest“, Stripes Magazine, April 9, 2021
“How to Save Money on a Healthy Plant-Based Diet“, The Beet, March 25, 2021. Republished on Kool-AM. Revised and republished as “How to Save Money on Groceries” at The Beet, November 16, 2021.
“My Papa, Myself“, Conversations On The Empty Bench, March 14, 2021
“How to Prevent a Cold, Flu, or the Coronavirus“, Medium, February 13, 2021
“Black Health Matters” [co-authored with Milton Mills, MD and Richard H. Schwartz, PhD], Visible Magazine, January 12, 2021
“Mooning Myself“, Visible Magazine, January 7, 2021
“Port“, Lipi Magazine, January 3, 2021
“Hope in an Otherwise Crap Year“, Ctrl Alt-Right Delete, December 20, 2020
“Climate Change: An Existential Threat to Humanity and How We Can Survive” (co-authored with Richard H. Schwartz), The Jerusalem Post, September 30, 2020 & The Jerusalem Report, October 5, 2020 (cover story). Republished on Nexia Wellness.
“Should Humanity Go Veg?: My Top 12 Reasons to Eat Plants” in Sailesh Rao, ed., Animal Agriculture Is Immoral, 2020
“Should Teens Delete Meat?“, Vegan Teen, July 24, 2020. Republished on All-Creatures.
“The Problem With Meat“, The Progressive, July 20, 2020. Republished in the Albany Democrat-Herald, All-Creatures, Atlantic City Press, Arizona Daily Star, Baltimore Sun, Beatrice Daily Sun, Billings Gazette, Bismarck Tribune, Bloomington Pantagraph, Bryan College Station Eagle, Buffalo News, Bulletin Review, Chicago Tribune, Chippewa Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Corvallis Gazette-Times, Daily Press, Denison Bulletin & Review, The Derrick, Elko Daily Free Press, Finger Lakes Times, The Free Lance-Star, Glens Falls Post-Star, Grand Island Independent, Hartford Courant, Independent Tribune, Journal Gazette & Times-Courier, Journal Times, La Crosse Tribune, Logan Herald-Observer, Missoulian, The Morning Call, Muscatine Journal, New York Daily News, Omaha World-Herald, Rapid City Journal, Ravalli Republic, South Bend Tribune, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Taunton Daily Gazette, Times and Democrat, Twiner-Herald, Virginian-Pilot, and WiscNews.
“Imagining India“, ThingsAsian, May 28, 2020
“Why We Need Medicare for All“, The Progressive, May 7, 2020. Republished in Arizona Daily Star, Chippewa Herald, Corvallis Gazette-Times, The Derrick, Frederick News-Post, Gulf Times, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Herald and News, Independent Record, InsuranceNewsNet, Iola Register, Pantagraph, Press of Atlantic City, Tyler Morning Telegraph, York Dispatch, Press of Atlantic City, and various others.
“Republicans Are On the Wrong Side of History — and Everything Else!“, Common Dreams, April 11, 2020. Republished on The Smirking Chimp and brewminate. There is an audio version.
“How to Be Happy“, Thrive Global, April 10, 2020
“How Are We Going to Pay for It?“, Common Dreams, April 8, 2020. Republished as “We will either have democratic socialism or we will continue to socialize suffering” on Alternet, April 9, 2020, on the County Sustainability Group, and “Government giving away trillions and nobody’s asking ‘How are we going to pay for it?’“, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, April 13, 2020
“Whose Economy?“, Medium, January 27, 2020
“Singing Hava Nagila in Thailand“, Thrive Global, January 14, 2020
“Raise the Wage!“, Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 22, 2019. Republished on Medium and Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.
“Living the Chanukah Miracle” (co-authored with Richard Schwartz), Jewcology, December 16, 2019 and the Times of Israel. Earlier versions are published as “Another Miracle of Chanukah”, Tikkun, December 2005 and as “Moving Toward a New Miracle of Chanukah”, New Jersey Jewish News, December 2, 2004. “Another Chanukah Miracle”, The Gantseh Megillah, December 2008. Republished in Shalom Magazine, Chanukah/Winter 2018.
“The Dinosaur Diet“, The Room-Psy (The Green Space), November 28, 2019
“Top 100 Righteous Reasons to Support Bernie Sanders for President“, Medium, October 8, 2019
“Green Tiger in Chiang Mai, Thailand” [review with photos], The Veggie Blog (HappyCow), July 8, 2019
“The Mindfulness Manual: 29 Things I Learned on the Way to Awakening“, elephant journal, May 6, 2019
“From Dust to Dust: The Universe and Us“, Tikkun, April 9, 2019
“Thailand’s Elephant Whisperer is a Force of Nature“, elephant journal, April 4, 2019
“Bernie vs. Trump/Pence and the GOP“, Medium, February 27, 2019
“Big Love: Elephants in Thailand“, elephant journal, December 17, 2018
“Conservatives Are On the Wrong Side of History“, Daily Kos, October 8, 2018
“A Backpack Full of Happiness“, The Good Men Project, September 25, 2018
“Chiang Mai on the Cheap“, Chiang Mai Citylife, August 27, 2018
“From ‘Sawadee’ to ‘Pad Thai’”, The Thaiger, August 26, 2018
“Get Away to Away Chiang Mai Resort!”, The Veggie Blog (HappyCow), July 10, 2018
“A Brief Chat With Noam Chomsky”, Truthout, May 11, 2018. Republished on Alternet and Raw Story.
“Cool Heart, Never Mind, Enjoy Chiang Mai!”, Thrive Global, March 10, 2018. Republished on ThingsAsian.
“Feb 28: Michel de Montaigne“, Jewdayo, February 27, 2018
“Feb 6: Jason Silva’s Shots of Awe“, Jewdayo, February 5, 2018
“Generosity“, Thrive Global, January 26, 2018
“A Veg Village in Thailand“, HappyCow Blog, December 20, 2017
“Stingray”, Young Ravens Literary Review, Winter 2017
“Why Jerusalem?“, Jewish Currents, December 12, 2017
“Kaleidoscopia”, Defiant Scribe, October 13, 2017
“Why She Couldn’t Make Change from a Big Bill”, ThingsAsian, October 9, 2017
“A 99% Manifesto”, Tikkun, September 17, 2017. Earlier versions appear as “A Declaration of the 99%”, Jewish Currents Blog, December 8, 2011 and “Need vs Greed”, Dissident Voice, November 11. 2011.
“Tea Time”, Erikawithak, September 14, 2017
“Cultural Magic in Chiang Mai”, The Outbound, August 23, 2017
“A Sociology of Joy”, The Society Pages, August 22, 2017
“Silver Temple, Golden Water”, MOON Magazine, August 2017
“Equalitariarism”, Tikkun Daily, May 2, 2017. Republished on Wade’s Wire on June 25, 2017
“Housing the Homeless: Universal Housing Is the Answer”, Tikkun Daily, March 16, 2017
“Open Road to the Thai North: A New Journey Through Old Chiang Mai”, Medium, March 6, 2017
“Women in Exile: Rethinking Refugee Rights & Our Responsibilities“, Medium, December 4, 2016
“The Miracles of Christmukah!“, Tikkun Daily, December 1, 2016
“The Life-and-Death Cycle of Tobacco“, Medium, November 2, 2016
“Food Q&A”, Medium, October 1, 2016
“Better Lives in a Better World”, Symbiotic Stories, Simbi Blog, September 17, 2016
“An Autopsy of the Bernie Sanders Campaign”, Tikkun Daily, September 15, 2016
“21 Ways to Pay for Your Study Abroad Adventure”, The Odyssey, August 24, 2016
“How a Flowing River Helped Me Live a More Mindful Life”, elephant journal, August 20, 2016
“Passover and Earth Day: 10 Plagues of Fossil Fuels”, Tikkun Daily, April 18, 2016
“Bernie vs. Hillary & the GOP: 50 Righteous Reasons to Support Bernie Sanders for President”, OpEdNews, January 31, 2016. Revised and republished as “52 Righteous Reasons to Support Progressive Bernie Sanders Over Establishment Hillary Clinton and the Regressive Republicans”, Tikkun, February 8, 2016
“breathe dot calm”, BuzzFeed Community, December 9, 2015
“August 21: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo”, Jewdayo, August 19, 2015
“The Quick Yet Powerful Practice of Micro-Meditation”, elephant journal, May 29, 2015
“May 20: Erving Goffman on the Presentation of Self”, Jewdayo, May 19, 2015
“A 12-Step Program for Getting Published”, LinkedIn Pulse, September 10, 2014
“Correlation, Causality, Courts, Culture, and Continuity: Does the U.S. Judiciary Instigate Social Change?”, Journal of the Justice Academy, August 11, 2014
“A Physics of Judicial Politics”, Journal of the Justice Academy, July 22, 2014
“Kill the Death Penalty: 10 Arguments Against Capital Punishment”, Common Dreams, July 15, 2014
“March 15: Yehuda Bauer”, Jewdayo, March 14, 2014
“Thanksgivukah: Giving Thanks for Miracles”, Jewcology, November 17, 2013. Republished on All-Creatures, November 2013 here. A shorter version is published as “Thanksgivukka: Giving thanks for miracles“, Jerusalem Post, November 27, 2013
“November 15: Émile Durkheim”, Jewdayo, November 14, 2013
“Suicide: Surviving a Social Problem”, Tikkun Daily,October 22, 2013
“Israel & Palestine with Peace & Justice”, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol.18, No. 4, 2013. An earlier version appears as “Israel, Palestine, & Justice”, Common Dreams, April 8, 2002. Republished as “Israel, Palestine and Justice” in AlterNet, April 9, 2002; The Hutchinson Report, April 9, 2002; “Responsibility is a Two-Way Street”, Metroland, April 11, 2002; The Critical Voice; The Street Wall Journal, June 2002; and in other media.
“My Jewish Atheism”, Tikkun Daily, May 8, 2013
“Pope Francis and the Powerless”, OpEd News, March 30, 2013
“A Liberated Pesach”, The Jewish Link, March 25, 2013
“Election Reflection”, OpEd News, November 8, 2012
“Was Prophet Isaiah a Yiddishe Mama?”, Tikkun Daily, September 24, 2012
“Eco Al Cheyt: Atoning for Our Environmental Sins”, Tikkun Daily, October 6, 2011
“Modern Revolution in 2011”, OpEd News, September 4, 2011
“A Royal Gift”, OpEd News, April 29, 2011
“The Four Citizens: A Passover Meditation”, Tikkun Daily, April 15, 2011. Republished on Alternet on April 20, 2011 and in various other media.
“Controlling Cholesterol & Beating Heart Disease”, OpEd News, November 30, 2010. Republished in Vegetarians in Paradise, March 2011.
“Are You Taking Global Warming Personally?”, world.edu, October 27, 2010 (co-authored with Richard Schwartz)
“LOVE for the Environment”, truthout, May 29, 2010 and in other media
“Natural and Unnatural Disasters”, Common Dreams, February 15, 2010. Revised and republished in Mark Milne, ed., Global Viewpoints: Disasters (Cengage, 2013)
“The Planet-Saving Mitzvah”, Tikkun, July/August 2009
“Courage, Cowardice, & John McCain” [review of John McCain’s Why Courage Matters], CommonDreams, October 17, 2008. An earlier version was published as “The Courage To Be Courageous”, Dissident Voice, October 12, 2004. Also published as “Neither Courageous nor Independent — Where it Counts“, PA, June 17, 2008
“Ten Commandments Regarding Animals”, Vegetarian News, Winter 2008. Expanded and published on All-Creatures.org, June 9, 2008
“Oil Wars: Fueling Both U.S. Empire and Ecocide”, Dissident Voice, August 20, 2007. Earlier versions were published as “Oil War: Fueling the Empire”, CounterPunch, April 17, 2003, translated and published as an English / Japanese version, and also published as “Oil Wars: Fueling the Empire”, Political Affairs, Fall 2004 (special issue)
“New Element Discovered: Capitalisium”, Monthly Review Zine, August 1, 2007
“Cesar Chávez and Comprehensive Rights”, ZNet, May 30, 2007. Republished in The Island Vegetarian, July-September 2007 and on the UFW website.
“The Warming Globe and Us: It’s More Than CO2”, Dissident Voice, May 1, 2007 (co-authored with Richard Schwartz). Republished as “Global Warming is the Problem, Vegetarianism is the Solution” in SAFE Magazine, Fall/Winter 2007, as “Another Inconvenient Truth” [cover story] in Animals Voice, Fall 2007, and as “Global Warming & Us: A Fork in the Road?”.
“Making Poverty History” [review of Scott Myers-Lipton’s Social Solutions to Poverty], CounterPunch, February 23, 2007
“Don’t Have A Cow: It Will Help in Fight Against Global Warming”, JTA, January 22, 2007 (co-authored with Richard Schwartz). Republished under different titles in various media.
“Listening for a (Social) Change”, Political Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 10, November 2006. A different version is published as “Open Our Ears: Listening for a Change”, Jewish Magazine, No. 90, May 2005
“Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue”, E Magazine commentary, August 17, 2006. Republished in Sustainable Business Insider on November 15, 2006, EarthSave News in September 2006, and in various other media. A shorter version is published as “Meat is a Global Warming Issue”, AlterNet, August 24, 2006 and republished in various other media.
“The Politics of Insurgency”, Political Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 3, March 2006. Published online as “A Politics of Politics: Routine and Insurgent Tactics”, October 29, 2005.
“Praxis Journal” in Peter Kaufman, ed., Critical Pedagogy in Sociology (Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2002, 2006)
“Eco-Eating: Eating as if the Earth Matters”, Vegetarians in Paradise, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 2005. A previous version is published as “Healthy Eating, Healthy Environment”, Laptop Lunch Times, October 2004
“Tsunamis”, Political Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 4, April 2005
“Dreaming Reality in Sukhothai”, The Nation (Thailand), March 2005
“The Next Generation”, Nonviolent Activist, September-October 2004
“Nader and the Nadir of Democracy?”, Dissident Voice, August 7, 2004
“Bombing Baghdad by the Bay?”, From the Left (ASA section newsletter), Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2003. An abbreviated version is published as “A Call for Empathy: Rethink Pre-emptive Bush Doctrine”, Berkeley Daily Planet, Weekend Edition, April 4-7, 2003
“Shocking and Awful”, Online Journal of Public Theology, 29 March 2003
“Protesting Peace (for a Price) at Berkeley”, CounterPunch, March 5, 2003
“Celebrating Genocide!”, CounterPunch, November 26, 2002. Republished in La Voz del Pueblo Taino (The Voice of the Taino People), Vol. 5, Issue 4, October-December 2002, as “Thanksgiving – Celebrating Genocide”, Guerrilla Funk Recordings, November 17, 2004, and in other media. Translated as “¡Celebrando el Genocidio!”, ZNet, Spanish Section, February 2001 and into Korean as “Thanksgiving Day”, 2002.
“An Open Letter to Barbara Lee”, CounterPunch, October 14, 2002
“Human Education Should Be Humanistic: A Progressive Philosophy of Teaching”, The Sociology Shop, July 2002
“Judi Bari and the FBI”, ZNet, May 27, 2002. Republished in Fifth Estate, Vol 37, No. 2 (357), Summer 2002.
“Questions of Liberty”, Common Dreams, April 25, 2002
“Seeking and Speaking the Truth” [review of William Blum’s Rogue Nation], Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2002. An updated “Review” of William Blum’s Rogue State, 3rd Ed., Tikkun, April 2006
“The Ongoing Tragedy of the Commons”, The Social Science Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4, November 2001
“Democracy and Its Discontents”, Socialist Review, Vol. 28, No. 3-4, Fall 2001. Revised and republished from “Theses on Democrats”, Today in Perspective, Vol. 2, Issue 3, January 1997.
“Review” of History as Mystery by Michael Parenti, Critical Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2001. Also published as “Resolving the Mystery of History”, Z Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3, March 2001 and as “Unraveling the Mystery of History”, Jewish Currents, Vol. 54, No. 3, March 2001.
“The Continuum of Collective Action”, Peace Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2001. Revised and republished from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Working Paper Series, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2000.
“A Note on the Journal (for courses with a service-learning component)” in Glenn A. Goodwin and Martin D. Schwartz, eds., ‘Professing’ Humanist Sociology, 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2000)
“Deadly Humanitarianism”, From the Left (ASA section newsletter), Vol. 23, No. 2-3, Spring/Summer 1999
“Revolutionary Rehearsal and the Case(s) of China”, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Working Paper Series, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1999. Revised and republished in National Journal of Sociology, Volume 13.1 (2001)
“Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1998. Republished in Rob White, ed. Environmental Crime: A Reader (Routledge, 2009).
“Assassination, Banks, and Chiapas”, Critical Mass Bulletin (Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association), Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 1997
“Democratic Daydreams and Communist Party Nightmares”, Chinese Community Forum, #9707, February 5, 1997
“Comparisons of Coercion, Consent, and Change in China”, Chinese Community Forum, #9703, January 22, 1997
“The Beijing Spring and Beyond: Modern Revolution in China” in Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley, eds., Alternative Futures and Popular Protest II (Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996)
“The History of Labor and the Labor of History”, Comparative & Historical Sociology (ASA section newsletter), Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1996
“The Great Transformation—Its Relevance Continues”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 53, No. 4, October 1994
“Review” of EcoPopulism by Andrew Szasz, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 1, 1994. Revised and republished as “Everyone’s Backyard”, Boston Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1995.
“Toxic Trade”, Z Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 9, September 1992. Revised and republished as “U.S. Factories in Mexico Cause Toxic Pollution” in Charles P. Cozic, ed., Pollution (Greenhaven Press, 1994)
“What is Good?”, Contradictions, Vol. 2, March 16, 1987
“How I Got High in India Without Marijuana!” [micro-fiction], 42 Stories Anthology, forthcoming
Rosa Parks and Rosa Parks: In Memoriam, Social Justice Inks – Anthology of Poetry, Prolific Pulse Press, May 2022
“scandalous indeed” [haiku], Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, May 2022
“Chagall” [haiku sequence], bear creek haiku, #48, April 2022
“A Little Life” [haiku micro-chapbook], Origami Poems Project, March 2022
“moving” [poem], Subterranean Blue Poetry, February 2022
“the Autumn Moon sings“, pure haiku, February 20, 2022
“lovers make a list” [haiku], Haikuniverse, February 14, 2022
“Buddhism” [poem] and “Thailand, My Land” [poem], Anak Sastra Literary Journal, Issue 46, February 2022. “Buddhism” also published in slightly different form in Buddha Weekly, February 15, 2022
“en-Gendered Person-ality“, The Loser, January 23, 2022
“A Poetry Reading” [poem], ONE ART, January 13, 2022
“MRI” [poem], Nevermore Journal, January 6, 2022
“December 2021: A Death Poem“, Lipi Magazine, January 5, 2022
“unpoem” [poem], “time for yellow?” [poem], “cages” [poem], Double Speak, December 28, 2021
“Maharishi Ashram Cottage #9” [masthead photograph] and “eye” [trailer photograph], Subterranean Blue Poetry, Vol. IX, Issue XII, Christmas 2021
“Holy Ginsberg” [poem], The Lake, December 2021
“Liminality”, Postall, Vol. 3, 2021
“CEO” [poem] and “Morning” [poem], Rat’s Ass Review, Winter 2021
“The Golden Ratio” [poem], Verse-Virtual, November 2021
“A Drinking Accident” [haiku sequence], Whiskey Rye Review, October 15, 2021
“you” [poem], Oddball Magazine, October 5, 2021
“Loving My Earth” [poem pyramid, or poemid], Thimble Literary Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2021
“Miracles” [poem] in Sabuj Sarkar, ed., Cyan: An Anthology of Confessional Poetry, 2021
“washing the dishes” [poem], Prospectus, June 11, 2021. Nominated for a Best of the Net Award.
“Change” [micro-fiction], Potato Soup Journal, May 2021
“breathing” [poem], Global Poemic: Kindred Voices on the Era of COVID-19, May 5, 2021. An earlier version was published in Elliott Killian, ed., Poem Ecology: An Anthology, 2019
“deep simple lessons“, pure haiku, May 5, 2021
“On the Eve of an Event” [poem], OpenDoor Magazine, April 2021
“friend” [poem], Spillwords, April 8, 2021
“An Autohaikogrphy of Kyoko Mayeda” [haiku sequence], Lothlorien Poetry Journal, February 26, 2021
“New Year’s Day” [poem], Lipi Magazine, February 14, 2021
“Here We Are” [poem], The New Verse News, January 19, 2021
“The Life of Death” [poem], Lipi Magazine, January 10, 2021
“Orange” [haiku sequence] in Sabuj Sarkar and Akshay Kumar Roy, eds., Caravan, Mississippi Books, 2020
“Anti-Racism Haiku” [haiku sequence], 50-Word Stories, August 17, 2020
“quiet together” [poem], Nine Cloud Journal, August 2020
“outline of her breasts”, pure haiku, April 29, 2020
“she sees in my heart”, pure haiku, April27, 2020
“we couldn’t see it”, pure haiku, April 15, 2020
“Sheepscape” [poem], WILDsound Festival, December 10, 2019
“the brownstone buildings”, pure haiku, October 27, 2019
“Revealing Capitalism and Socialism” [infographic], Medium, May 6, 2019
“his prison poems”, pure haiku, April 9, 2019
“in meditation”, pure haiku, November 28, 2018
“a hole in a leaf”, pure haiku, October 18, 2018
“a glorious day!”, pure haiku, May 30, 2018
“most of our planet”, pure haiku, February 13, 2018
“Affirmation of Consciousness”, Medium, January 1, 2018. A video version is available.
“not under your bed”, pure haiku, December 1, 2017
“Re-Membering Ishmael” [poem], Young Ravens Literary Review, Winter 2017
“quiddity”, pure haiku, October 17, 2016
“last kiss”, pure haiku, July 22, 2015
“Giving Thanks” [poem], Poetic Trenches, Vol. 3 (Brine Books, 2014)
“Autumn Colors” [poem], Good Morning Justice, Vol. 2 (Brine Books, 2014)
“Four Haiku for Israel/Palestine” [haiku sequence], Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2014
“Kibbutz Sa’ar [poem], Little Planet Daily, February 12, 2014
“Minority Status” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, Summer 2013
“Middle Eastern Haiku” [haiku sequence], Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol.19, No.12, 2013
“dogs” [haiku], The Bark, Spring 2013
“Chiang Mai, Thailand: J is for Vegetarian” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“The Vegetarian Soul of Seoul” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“broken glass” [haiku], A Hundred Gourds, June 2012
“white bird” [haiku], Notes from the Gean, March 2012
“finding friendship” [poem], Street Sheet, January 2012
“3 Haiku” [haiku sequence], Stephen Boyer, Filip Marinovich, and the Poets of OWS, ed. Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology
“God” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, Winter 2011-2012
“November Ninth” [poem], Trevor Maynard, ed. The Poetic Bond (Willowdown Books, 2011)
“Veg*n Out in Berkeley” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“Heeling the World, Healing Ourselves” [poem], OpEd News, November 26, 2010
“Florence: Paradise Found!” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“In the Kitchen” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, Spring 2010
“Idolatry” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, Winter 2009-2010
“Holy Haridwar & Righteous Rishikesh” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“Justice, Justice” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, January-February 2009
“San Jose, California: Vegetarian Vietnamese Valley of Heart’s Delight” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“Jerusalem” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, November-December 2008
“personal papers” [haibun (short story ending with a haiku)], contemporary haibun online, September 2008
“Rabbis” [haiku sequence], Jewish Currents, September-October 2008
“deep relaxation” [haiku], Frogpond, Fall 2008
“The Harvest” [photograph], Nancy Cary, ed. Hunger and Thirst (Sunbelt Publications, 2008)
“Kyoto, Japan: New Treats in an Ancient Capital” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“Luang Prabang, Laos: Vegetarian Gem of the Mekong” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com
“Buddha Tree” [photograph], 2008 SJSU Global Studies Calendar (May)
“Sparkling San Francisco: A Jewel in the California Crown” [city review & photographs], VegDining.com. An audio version is available here.
“Iraq Is Another Four-Letter Word” [poem mini-booklet], Poems-For-All, #835, 24th Street Irregular Press, November 2007. Read at SJSU Legacy of Poetry, April 18, 2013
“Real Social Security” [graphic], San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 8-14, 2007. An earlier and different version is published in Journal of Creative Social Discourse, Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer 1997
“Rosa Parks” [poetry], Political Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 5, May 2007
“Political Sociology” [syllabus], Sarah Sobieraj, ed., Political Sociology: Syllabi and Instructional Materials (Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association, 2005)
“Arboretum” [haiku sequence mini-booklet], Poems-For-All, #459, 24th Street Irregular Press, December 2004
“Haiku Definition”, haikupoet.com (including an index of haiku definitions)
“The Colors of War” [poem] in Jason Carpenter, Rekha Bala, and Ilana Urnansky, eds., Vanguard in the Belly of the Beast: Voices and Images of Protest (May 15, 2003)
“Sociological Snippets”, The Sociology Shop. Also posted on Dear Habermas: A Journal of Postmodern and Critical Thought, Vol. 16, No. 3, Feb. 24-March 3, 2003.
“A Year of Spring” [and other poems], Poets Against War
“Meatless in Mexico City”, Vegetarian Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, January/February 1996. Translated into Spanish by Tais Thompson and republished as “Cena Vegetariana en la Ciudad de México” on the International Vegetarian Union Web Site (undated).
GUEST LECTURES & INTERVIEWS
Interview [vegan-leaning/veganish lifestyle], San Jose Stae University, March 14, 2022
Speaker, LocalLit 2021, December 5, 2021
Host and Interviewer, Omowale Adewale, World Veg Fest (virtual), October 24, 2021
Host and Interviewer, Plant Based Treaty Panel: Combatting the Climate Crisis, World Veg Fest (virtual), October 23, 2021
Interview, “How To Be Happy“, UC Davis Magazine, July 6, 2021
Interview, R&B Ecology Fellowship with Richard H. Schwartz, June 2021
Interview, The Mike Wagner Show, June 23, 2021
Interview, “Better World Is Possible“, Creative Society, Allatra TV, February 12, 2021
Co-Host and Speaker, Tu B’Shvat Seder – Jewish New Year for the Trees, January 28, 2021 (15 Shvat 5781)
Speaker, Online Book Launch Party, December 31, 2020
Speaker, LocalLit 2020 – The Pandemic Edition, December 6, 2020
Climate Change and Veganism, Green and Healthy Festival, November 20, 2020
Craft Talk 2020 with Maria Judnick, San Jose State University Writing Center, Fall 2020
Interview with Dan Brook by Nancy Arenas, Vegan Pulse, October 2020
Host and Interviewer, A Discussion with Dr. Michael Greger, 21st World Veg Fest (Virtual), October 11, 2020
Host and Interviewer, A Discussion with Will Tuttle, 21st World Veg Fest (Virtual), October 10, 2020
Host and Interviewer, Environmental Activism During Covid with Sarah Goody and Jade Northrup, 21st World Veg Fest (Virtual), October 10, 2020
Panelist, International Day of Peace, IBM.TV, September 21, 2020
Co-Host and Speaker, Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot – Jewish New Year for Animals, August 20, 2020 (1 Elul 5780)
“Re-Learning from Disaster“, OLBIOS, June 2020
Commencement 2020 – Invest in Yourself, May 8, 2020
Panelist, The Economics of COVID-19, IBM-TV, April 20, 2020
Moderator, Youth Climate Panel, 20th World Veg Fest, San Francisco, CA, October 26, 2019
Panelist, Holistic Health Food Awareness, San Francisco State University, October 21, 2019
Interview with Dan Brook and Patly Rohrbach, SF Veg Society, by Govinda Dalton, Rise for Climate, San Francisco, CA, September 8, 2018
“Being Vegan Is Good for the Environment“, World Veg Festival, San Francisco, CA, October 9, 2016
“Voting May Not Be the Most Important Thing, But It Might Be the Most Important Thing on Election Day”, City College of San Francisco, September 28, 2015
“Eating Our Environment”, MeatOut, San Francisco, CA, March 15, 2015
“Machiavelli Matters!”, City College of San Francisco, September 10, 2014
“Know the Importance of Healthy Food with Dan Brook”, YogaCurious Blog, December 25, 2013
“Sociology for Social Activism”, Sociology at Work, November 6, 2013
“Eating the Earth”, World Veg Festival and IVU Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 7, 2012
“New Year for Animals”, Go Vegan Radio, August 19, 2012
“Greening & Justicing Your B’nai Mitzvah”,Or Shalom Jewish Community, San Francisco, CA, January 11, 2012
“ReFund Education for the 99%”, November 16, 2011
“A Delightful Dozen: My Top 12 Reasons for Being Vegetarian”, World Veg Festival, San Francisco, CA, October 3, 2010
“LOVE for the Environment: Local, Organic, Veg*n Eating”, World Veg Festival, San Francisco, CA, October 4, 2009
“The Planet-Saving Mitzvah”, Tikkun Phone Forum, July 27, 2009
“Eating for Personal, Public, and Planetary Health”, World Veg Festival, San Francisco, CA, October 4, 2008
“Social Causes and Higher Social Costs of Rising Food Prices”, Wellness Central, San Francisco, CA, July 9, 2008
Interview [“Thanksgiving”], KPFK (90.7 FM), Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 2007
“Eating as if the Earth Matters”, World Veg Festival, San Francisco, CA, September 29, 2007
“Factory Farms and Slaughterhouses as Sweatshops”, Sustainabilty Week, San Jose State University, April 19, 2007
“A Sociology of Sustainable Development”, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 16, 2007
“Eating as if the Earth Matters”, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 16, 2007
Interview, KOPT (1600 AM), Eugene, Oregon, April 16, 2007
Interview, KBOO (Inform Productions), Eugene, Oregon, April 16, 2007Interview, Wake Up America, April 9, 2007
Perspective [“Meat and Global Warming”], KQED (88.5 FM), San Francisco, CA, February 21 & 25, 2007. Rebroadcast on the H2O Podcast (Vegan-Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment).
“Facing the Facts about Food”, San Jose State University, November 6, 2006
“Social Stratification”, College of San Mateo, October 20, 2006
Interview [“The Meat of Global Warming”], WHUS (91.7 FM), Storrs, CT, October 12, 2006
“Think Globally, Eat Locally”, San Jose State University, April 18, 2006
“Hegemony”, San Francisco State University, October 6, 2004
“Philosophy and Practice”, Back-to-Back Brown Bag with Brook & Barlow Luncheon Series, University of California at Berkeley, May 14, 2003
Interview [“India & Pakistan: Nationalism & Militarism”], KPFA (94.1 FM), Berkeley, California, June 1, 2002
Interview [“Conference Against Racism”], KPFA (94.1 FM), Berkeley, California, September 8, 2001
Interview [“Tax Policy”], KPFA (94.1 FM), Berkeley, California, May 26, 2001
Interview [“Electoral and Everyday Democracy”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis, California, October 25, 2000
“Considering Chinese Communism”, University of California, Davis, October 19, 2000
Interview [“Corporations & Globalization”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis, California, June 7, 2000
Interview [“Environmental Justice”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis, California, February 22, 2000
“Global Stratification: Causes, Consequences, and Constructive Criticism”, California State University East Bay (Hayward), July 24, 1999
Interview [“Political Forum”], KDVS (90.3 FM), Davis, California, July 10, 1999
“Elements of Environmental Sociology”, California State University Fresno, April 20, 1999
“Political Leadership in Cultural Context”, University of Richmond, February 9, 1998
“Philosophies of Methodologies in Social Research”, San Francisco State University, November 13, 1997
“Doing Social Research: Modern Revolution in Czechoslovakia and Beyond”, Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association on Social Change: Opportunities & Constraints, New York, New York, August 16-20, 1996
“The (Re)Production of Velvet: On the Dynamics of Czechoslovakia’s Modern Revolution”, Paper presented at the Second Regional Conference on Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington, April 20, 1996
“The Beijing Spring and Beyond: Modern Revolution in China”, Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester, England, March 26-28, 1996
“Capitalism and Democracy”, City College of San Francisco, Spring 1995
“All Politics is Local: California Government and Politics”, California State University East Bay (Hayward), January 26, 1994
“The Political Economy of Development in Mexico”, Clark University, Fall 1987
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Yoga & Meditation (video), June 21, 2021
You Are The Fire (video), March 3, 2021
This is it! (video), February 5, 2021
Trees! (video), January 27, 2021
Amazing You! (video), January 22, 2021
My Hope for 2021 (video), January 1, 2021
Affirmation of Consciousness (video), December 11, 2020
Commencement 2020 – Invest in Yourself (video), May 8, 2020
Passed, De-Mystifying Mindfulness, Leiden University, Summer 2020
Passed, The Science of Well-Being, Yale University, Spring 2020
Leader, Mindfulness Meditation, Hidden House, Chiang Mai, Thailand, June 2018
Finalist, GoAbroad Zoom In on Culture Photo Contest, 2016
Faculty Advisor, CARE, City College of San Francisco, 2016 – 2019
Winner, Happy Haiku Contest, Network of Wellbeing, March 2016
Faculty Advisor, Spartan Veg Club, San Jose State University, 2015 – present
Member, Board of Directors of San Francisco Veg Society, 2015 – present
Passed, GG101x: Science of Happiness, Fall 2014
Passed, Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR/1), Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), April 22, 2014
Passed, Students – Class Projects (Basic Course/1), Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), April 22, 2014
Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society, 2013
Winner, 4th-10th Place [haiku and other poems], Vegetarian Week Contest, 2011
Winner, Green Family Contest [San Francisco], 2010
Recipient, Merit Award, VegFund, 2010
First Place Winner (“Tea Time”) of 2009 Global Lens Photo Contest
First Place Winner (“The Joy of Reading”) of 2008 Global Lens Photo Contest
Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church, 2008
Chair, OS JUSTICE, Or Shalom Jewish Community, 2008 – 2013Member, Parkmerced Sustainability Committee, 2007 – 2011
Staff Photographer, Green Festival (San Francisco), 2007 – 2008, 2010
Member, Religious School Committee, Or Shalom Jewish Community, 2007 – 2008
Member, San Francisco Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee, 2006 – 2008
Volunteer, Rooftop Alternative School Library, 2006 – 2007
Third Place Winner (“Buddha Tree”) of 2006 Global Lens Photo Contest
Member, Advisory Board, Jewish Veg (formerly JVNA), 2005 – present
Alumni Interviewer, Clark University, 2002 – 2014
Columnist, “It’s Eco-Logical”, Lakeshore Elementary School Newsletter, 2002 – 2006
Grader, Graduate Record Examinations, Educational Testing Service, 2002 – 2004
Trained Community Mediator, Community Boards, San Francisco, October 2001
Parent-Teacher, Playmates Cooperative Preschool, 2000 – 2001
Referee, American Journal of Economics and Sociology and Critical Sociology, 1999- 2010
Faculty Advisor, Union for Social Advancement, UC Davis, 1999 – 2001
Member, Socialist Review Editorial Collective, 1998 – 2001
Freelance Editor, McGraw-Hill, Pine Forge Press, and W.W. Norton, 1997 – 2012
Member, Board of Directors of Or Shalom Jewish Community, 1995 – 1996
Copy Editor and Proofreader, Or Shalom, 1995 – 1996
Participant, Essential Information’s Summer Institute on Teaching Activism (with Ralph Nader, Lois Gibbs, Howard Zinn, and others), 1994
Staff Photographer, Pastichio (Clark University Yearbook), 1986 – 1988
Participant, Civil Disobedience Training, Worcester, MA, 1986
PERSONAL WEBSITES
The Veg Mitzvah
No Smoking?
Daniel Brook
CV in English: https://brookcv.wordpress.com
CV en español/Spanish
CV in 中文/Chinese
https://sites.google.com/site/danbrookcv