Steven Seidman (born October 17, 1948) is a sociologist, currently professor at State University of New York at Albany. He is a social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization. He received his A.B. the State University of New York at Brockport in 1972, his A.M. from the New School for Social Research in 1977 and his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1980. After earning his doctorate he taught as assistant professor at New Mexico State University from 1980 to 1983 before starting his current tenure at SUNY Albany, where he became associate professor in 1986 and full professor in 1992. To date his books have been translated into French, Chinese, Korean, Romanian, Persian, Turkish and Spanish: