Barry Glassner

Barry Glassner is a professor of sociology and former president at Lewis & Clark College and was previously professor of sociology and executive vice provost at the University of Southern California. He has received a Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, a visiting fellowship at Oxford University and "best book" designations from the Los Angeles Times book review, CHOICE magazine and Knight Ridder newspapers. His research specialties include cultural sociology, qualitative methods and media studies.

Glassner has authored or co-authored nine books, including The Culture of Fear, which discussed the culture of fear phenomenon. He says that many of Americans' concerns and fears are largely unfounded. An updated and enlarged tenth anniversary edition of The Culture of Fear was published by Basic Books in 2010. In it, Glassner decries: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous ... "

Glassner's scholarly articles have been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior. His essays on social issues and on higher education have appeared in national newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.

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