Michael Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acadia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5036-0168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965–2008
Planning for Socialism in the 1970s: Economist Robert Lekachman and the Challenge to Neoliberalism
Chris Wright, Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression (New York): Anthem Press, 2022
He Liked America: Granville Hicks and a Political Economy for the Popular Front
Impact of implementation interventions to improve substance use service delivery on recidivism among justice-involved youth
Substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent among justice-involved youth (JIY) and are a robust predictor of re-offending. Only a fraction of JIY with substance use problems receive treatment. This paper describes the impacts of system-level efforts to improve identification and referral to treatment on recidivism of JIY. A cluster randomized trial involving 20 county juvenile justice agency sites across 5 states was used to implement an organiza…
Results of a national survey of substance use treatment services for youth under community supervision
A student-led educational activity on trauma informed care: Reflections and recommendations
We advocate for better awareness of TIC, the associated trauma theories, and implementation of the core values and principles of TIC in the training of health professionals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: Semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster
There was a highly publicised cluster of at least ten suicides in South Wales, United Kingdom, in 2007-2008. We carried out a qualitative descriptive study using cross-case thematic analysis to investigate the experiences and narratives of eight individuals who lived in the area where the cluster occurred and who survived an episode of near-fatal self-harm at the time of the cluster. Interviews were conducted from 01.01.2015 to 31.12.2015. All in…
The impact of Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTC) implementing Federal Evidence-Based Guidelines on recidivism and substance use: Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and Regression Discontin…
The Full Employment Road to Socialism: The Job Guarantee Movement of the 1970s and the Challenge to Capitalism
Recidivism Among Justice-Involved Youth: Findings From JJ-TRIALS
Recidivism, and the factors related to it, remains a highly significant concern among juvenile justice researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Recent studies highlight the need to examine multiple measures of recidivism as well as conduct multilevel analyses of this phenomenon. Using data collected in a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal Syste…
Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972
A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder within the Criminal Justice System
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi. By Robert Hunt Ferguson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. xvi, 211 pp. Cloth, $56.00. Paper, $29.95.) Michael Dennis Michael Dennis Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
From the Masses to the Mainstream: The Hollywood Left and the Movement for Social Democracy
Left Marginalia: The Radical Imagination in Postwar America
Left Marginalia:The Radical Imagination in Postwar America Michael Dennis (bio) Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) In an era that has witnessed the disappearance of any effective counterweight to the power of international capital, historians Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps have written a persuasive reminder of an American left tradit…
Women in Defense of Workers: Ella Winter, the literary left, and labor journalism in California
Left-wing, middle-class journalists such as Ella Winter contributed decisively to the labor rebellion of the 1930s. In contrast to mainstream labor reporting, they practiced a form of anti-fascist, working-class journalism that consistently linked the drive for collective bargaining to a larger movement for social and economic justice. Winter and other writers such as Miriam deFord and Emily Joseph carried forward a tradition of labor defense, so…
The Other Good Fight: Hollywood Talent and the Working-Class Movement of the 1930s
The glamour of the silver screen has obscured the Hollywood left's commitment to economic democracy. When Hollywood talent examined the world through the lenses of labor conflict and capitalist production, they began to see themselves as exploited workers, not as privileged middle-class artists. That consciousness of a new class identity propelled them to engage in something more than noblesse oblige or class paternalism. Out of the alchemy of ec…
Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
Scott M. Gelber. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
In an era when market-driven imperatives seem to dominate the agenda in higher education, it is easy enough to forget that policymakers ever proposed an alternative set of values for the American university. Exploring the brief period of Populist ascendancy in the Gilded Age, Scott M. Gelber reminds us that this was indeed the case. In a tightly organized, effectively written, and prodigiously documented analysis, he subtly suggests that the Popu…
American Studies in Review: Legacies of the Lean Years
The economic collapse of 2008 left a trail of global destruction that is only widening as European economies slash and burn their way toward fiscal austerity. As destructive as the recession has been for working-class Americans, the crisis has also been—in a macabre sort of fashion—a boon for the history of the lean years. Now, journalists and cable-TV pundits invoke Keynesianism, infrastructure renewal, banking regulation, and the Roosevelt rece…
The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrato
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (review)
Virginia Is for Business: Selling the Commonwealth in the Global Competition Era
According to business pundits of the 1990s, the United States had finally liberated itself from the shackles of an Old Economy. Technology, entrepreneurialism, and the reduction of social regulations promised to restore American economic competitiveness. Nowhere else in the United States did this ideology achieve greater legitimacy than in the American South, where traditional southern conservatism merged with corporate neoliberalism to produce a…
Labor against the Law: Unions Confront the Courts in the New Economy South
As deindustrialization accelerated in the American south in the late twentieth century, workers were drawn increasingly into the low-wage service sector. The challenge facing unions was to organize unskilled workers in the hotels and grocery stores of this historically anti-union region. Despite a hostile political climate, employees in Hampton Roads, Virginia responded positively to this effort. In a dramatic union certification campaign in the …
Militant Islam and the Futile Fight for Reputation
The reputation debate in international relations has split into two camps: those suggesting actions affect perceptions of resolve and those who say they do not. This article engages the reputationdebate in the context of militant Islamists. Using political psychology, we offer a theory of biased attributions that challenges Mercer's "desires" hypothesis that reputations for irresolution do not form when an act is desirable from the perceiver's ey…
Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
The Idea of Citizenship in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Luther P. Jackson was a key supporter of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and a leading historian of the African American experience. As a leader in the voting rights movement in Virginia as well a prominent activist within region-wide civil rights organizations, Jackson crafted a message of black citizenship that balanced rights and civic duties. His emphasis on political engagement and civic consciousness transcended the …
Schooling along the Color Line: Progressives and the Education of Blacks in the New South
Perhaps one of the most neglected features of the history of postbellum Black education is the role of White southern university leaders in proselytizing the northern-inspired and financed industrial education movement to their fellow southerners. This article examines the writings and speeches of several southern academics who formed the linchpin of the industrial education crusade. It shows how, as advocates for school reform, these intellectua…
Individual Burden–Societal Requirement: Human and Social Aspects of Shiftwork in the German Democratic Republic
Schooling along the Color Line: Progressives and the Education of Blacks in the New South
Perhaps one of the most neglected features of the history of postbellum Black education is the role of White southern university leaders in proselytizing the northern-inspired and financed industrial education movement to their fellow southerners. This article examines the writings and speeches of several southern academics who formed the linchpin of the industrial education crusade. It shows how, as advocates for school reform, these intellectua…
Race and the Southern Imagination: Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered
The author gratefully acknowledges Caitlin McCain's assistance in editing and reviewing this article. At a time when hundreds of southerners could charter a train to watch Henry Smith lynched, his feet seared with a red-hot iron, the word "Justice" emblazoned on the scaffold, his grisly demise captured in souvenir photo- graphs, whites who promoted segregation seemed comparatively mild. Woodrow Wilson, future president and visionary of a world ma…
Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
Michael Dennis argues that southern universities, through their presidents, provided leadership for the region's progressive reform movement. Dennis aptly characterizes southern progressivism as a part of the New South movement for economic and commercial development. He conveys his argument in five chapters on four southern university presidents: Charles Dabney of the University of Tennessee, Walter Bernard Hill of the University of Georgia, Sam…
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
How progressivism transformed higher education in the New South by focusing on practical, utilitarian education, creating a vast educational bureaucracy, and making the universities into instruments of the state
The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Study: Main findings from two randomized trials
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America , by Todd DePastino
The Idea of Citizenship in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Luther P. Jackson was a key supporter of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and a leading historian of the African American experience. As a leader in the voting rights movement in Virginia as well a prominent activist within region-wide civil rights organizations, Jackson crafted a message of black citizenship that balanced rights and civic duties. His emphasis on political engagement and civic consciousness transcended the …
Virginia Is for Business: Selling the Commonwealth in the Global Competition Era
According to business pundits of the 1990s, the United States had finally liberated itself from the shackles of an Old Economy. Technology, entrepreneurialism, and the reduction of social regulations promised to restore American economic competitiveness. Nowhere else in the United States did this ideology achieve greater legitimacy than in the American South, where traditional southern conservatism merged with corporate neoliberalism to produce a…
Labor against the Law: Unions Confront the Courts in the New Economy South
As deindustrialization accelerated in the American south in the late twentieth century, workers were drawn increasingly into the low-wage service sector. The challenge facing unions was to organize unskilled workers in the hotels and grocery stores of this historically anti-union region. Despite a hostile political climate, employees in Hampton Roads, Virginia responded positively to this effort. In a dramatic union certification campaign in the …
Militant Islam and the Futile Fight for Reputation
The reputation debate in international relations has split into two camps: those suggesting actions affect perceptions of resolve and those who say they do not. This article engages the reputationdebate in the context of militant Islamists. Using political psychology, we offer a theory of biased attributions that challenges Mercer's "desires" hypothesis that reputations for irresolution do not form when an act is desirable from the perceiver's ey…
The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrato
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (review)
American Studies in Review: Legacies of the Lean Years
The economic collapse of 2008 left a trail of global destruction that is only widening as European economies slash and burn their way toward fiscal austerity. As destructive as the recession has been for working-class Americans, the crisis has also been—in a macabre sort of fashion—a boon for the history of the lean years. Now, journalists and cable-TV pundits invoke Keynesianism, infrastructure renewal, banking regulation, and the Roosevelt rece…
Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
Scott M. Gelber. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
In an era when market-driven imperatives seem to dominate the agenda in higher education, it is easy enough to forget that policymakers ever proposed an alternative set of values for the American university. Exploring the brief period of Populist ascendancy in the Gilded Age, Scott M. Gelber reminds us that this was indeed the case. In a tightly organized, effectively written, and prodigiously documented analysis, he subtly suggests that the Popu…
The Other Good Fight: Hollywood Talent and the Working-Class Movement of the 1930s
The glamour of the silver screen has obscured the Hollywood left's commitment to economic democracy. When Hollywood talent examined the world through the lenses of labor conflict and capitalist production, they began to see themselves as exploited workers, not as privileged middle-class artists. That consciousness of a new class identity propelled them to engage in something more than noblesse oblige or class paternalism. Out of the alchemy of ec…
Left Marginalia: The Radical Imagination in Postwar America
Left Marginalia:The Radical Imagination in Postwar America Michael Dennis (bio) Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) In an era that has witnessed the disappearance of any effective counterweight to the power of international capital, historians Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps have written a persuasive reminder of an American left tradit…
Women in Defense of Workers: Ella Winter, the literary left, and labor journalism in California
Left-wing, middle-class journalists such as Ella Winter contributed decisively to the labor rebellion of the 1930s. In contrast to mainstream labor reporting, they practiced a form of anti-fascist, working-class journalism that consistently linked the drive for collective bargaining to a larger movement for social and economic justice. Winter and other writers such as Miriam deFord and Emily Joseph carried forward a tradition of labor defense, so…
From the Masses to the Mainstream: The Hollywood Left and the Movement for Social Democracy
Recidivism Among Justice-Involved Youth: Findings From JJ-TRIALS
Recidivism, and the factors related to it, remains a highly significant concern among juvenile justice researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Recent studies highlight the need to examine multiple measures of recidivism as well as conduct multilevel analyses of this phenomenon. Using data collected in a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Juvenile Justice-Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal Syste…
Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972
A Scoping Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder within the Criminal Justice System
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi. By Robert Hunt Ferguson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. xvi, 211 pp. Cloth, $56.00. Paper, $29.95.) Michael Dennis Michael Dennis Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
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