Robert Lanning

Contact: Robert.Lanning@msvu.ca

Curriculum Vitae (Selections)

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Ph.D. University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1990.

M.A. University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1986.                   

B.A. Honours.  York University, 1984.

Bachelor of Education.  Faculty of Education, University of Toronto, 1983.

ACADEMIC POSITION

Adjunct Faculty. Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

1997 - 2020, part-time faculty in the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology; thereafter as Adjunct Faculty.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2013    In the Hotel Abyss: An Hegelian-Marxist Critique of Adorno.  Leiden: Brill.

              2014  Paperback edition.  Chicago: Haymarket Books.

2009    Georg Lukács and Organizing Class Consciousness.   Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press.  Republished by undercurrent books, 2011.

Full text at: https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219237

2016 German edition.  Georg Lukács und die Organisierung von Klassenbewusstsein, translated by Andreas Förster.  Hamburg: Laika-Verlag.

            With a foreword by Dr. Rüdiger Dannemann, chairman of the Internationale Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft. .          

1996    The National Album:  Collective Biography and the Formation of the Canadian Middle Class.  Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

Articles, Reports, etc.

2016      Allen Rafuse and Robert Lanning, Knowledge and risk: Choices and decisions in the career selection process among university students.  Canadian Journal of Career Development, 15(2), 32-42.

2012   Irrationalism: The Foundation of Hate Propaganda.  Journal of Hate Studies, 10(1).

2007    What is Class Consciousness? Political Affairs, 86(3) March.

2006  "Nova Scotia's Part-Time University Faculty and Teaching Assistants in a Competitive World," Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for   CUPE  3912 and the Post-Secondary Education Coalition, Halifax.

2006  Contributions to "Maintaining Investment in Nova Scotians: Alternative Provincial Budget, 2006-2007," Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Nova Scotia.

2005    The Marginal is on the Edge of the Mainstream:  An Approach to Teaching about Hate Propaganda. Radical Pedagogy, 6.2.

2002    Lukács’s Concept of Imputed Consciousness in Realist Literature.  Nature, Society and Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 15(2).

2002    Terror and Despair. Jewish Currents, 56(5), Sept.-Oct..

2001    Ethics and Self-mastery: Revolution and the Fully-developed Person in the Work of Georg Lukács.  Science & Society: An Independent Journal of Marxism.                 65(3).

2000    “Launched into Eternity”: Sympathetic Interaction as a Response to Public Executions in Canada West, 1847-1869.  Journal of Historical Sociology, 13(3).

2000    Awakening a Demand for Schooling: Educational Inspection’s Impact on Rural NovaScotia, 1855-74.  Historical Studies in Education, 12(1&2). 

         Editor’s/Author’scorrections: 13(1), 2001, 96-97.

2000    Donna Varga, Harriet Field and Robert Lanning. Attitudes Toward Issues of  Maternal Employment. Newsletter of the Association for Research on Mothering, Spring/Summer.

1998    Donna Varga and Robert Lanning. In Support of Working Mothers?  Students of Early Childhood Education and Issues of Maternal Employment.  Education and  Society, 16(2).

1998    Robert Lanning and George Perry. Occupational Security and Retraining: How Nova Scotia Youth View Their Future. Canadian Vocational Journal, 33(1).

1998    Henry James Morgan.  Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIV.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

1997  Aspirations and Expectations of Secondary School Students; a report of research findings prepared for the Strait Regional School Board, Port Hastings, Nova Scotia.

1997  Evaluation of Affidavits of Historical Research in the matter of “Ontario Public School Boards’ Association v. Ontario.”  Commissioned by the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario.

1995    Portraits of Progress: Men, Women and the “Selective Tradition” in Collective Biography.  Journal of Canadian Studies, 30(3).

1994    Education and Everyday Life: An Argument against “Educational Futures." Canadian Journal of Education, 19(4).

1994    John Millar.  Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIII.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

1994    James Alexander McLellan. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIII. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

1992    Assessing Morality: The Ontario Provincial Survey of 1896.  Journal of Educational Thought, 26(1).

1991    On Developing “representations from presentations:” Observing the Laws of the Natural and Social Worlds.  Journal of Historical Sociology, 4(4).

1989    Models of Art, Portraits of Self: Culture and the Drawing Courses in Ontario, 1875-1910.  Journal of Canadian Studies, 24(2).

1987    Philip Corrigan, Bruce Curtis and Robert Lanning. The Political Space of Schooling, in Terry Wotherspoon, ed. The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling. Toronto: Methuen.

            Given the Founders’ Award from the Canadian History of Education Association, 1988.

Reviews

2007    Andrée Lévesque. Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades. (McGill-Queens University Press, 2006), in Political Affairs, 86(7).  Reprinted in People’s Voice, 16(10), May, 2008.

2005    Review Essay.  Willis H. Truitt. Marxist Ethics: A Short Exposition. (International Publishers, 2005), in Nature, Society and Thought, 18(4).

2003    Kathleen M. Blee.  Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (University of California Press, 2002), in Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, 27(2).

2002    Georg Lukács.  A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic (Verso, 2000), in Science & Society, 66(3).

2000    Hadassa Kosak.  Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905 (State University of New York Press, 2000), in Nature, Society and Thought, 13(4).

1999    Barbara Evans Clements.  Bolshevik Women (Cambridge University Press, 1997), in Science & Society, 63(1).

1996    Clayton Roberts.  The Logic of Historical Explanation (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996), in Canadian Review of Sociology and     Anthropology, 34(4).

1997    Samuel Clark.  State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995), in Canadian Journal of Sociology, 22(3).

1997    Ronald Manzer.  Public Schools and Political Ideas: Canadian Educational Policy in Historical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 1994), in Canadian Journal of Sociology, 22(1).

1995    Phillip McCann.  Schooling in a Fishing Society: Education and Economic Conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1836-1986 (Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1994), in History of Education Quarterly, 35(4).

1995    Darrell Varga (Director).  Hunters and Gatherers: a channel surfer’s guide to the collector landscape (a documentary film), in Teaching Sociology, 23(3).

1994    George Emery.  Facts of Life: The Social Construction of Vital Statistics, Ontario, 1869-1952 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993), in Canadian Historical Review, LXXV (4).

1994    Roger Simon, Don Dippo and Arlene Schenke.  Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education (OISE Press, 1991), and Arthur G. Wirth. Education and Work for the Year 2000 (Jossey-Bass, 1992), in Journal of Educational Thought, 28(2).

1988    Bruce Curtis.  Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871 (Falmer Press, 1988), in Histoire Sociale/Social History, XXI (no.42).