Harry G. Levine

     Professor

     Department of Sociology

     Queens College, City University of New York

     Flushing, New York 11367

       718- 997-2800  /  Email: hglevine@QC.edu

 


Harry G. Levine received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Brandeis University. Much of his research and writing has focused on drugs, alcohol and food in historical context. He has won awards for his writing about the history of addiction, about alcohol prohibition and regulation, and about crack cocaine and the war on drugs; in 2007 he won the Lindesmith Award for Distinguished Scholarship.  In recent years he has taught Introduction to Sociology, Drugs and Society, the History of Food, and Sociological Theory.  His current research examines the epidemic of racially-biased marijuana arrests in the U.S and why in the last ten years New York City has arrested more people for possessing small amounts of marijuana than any city in the world.
 

Selected Publications

 Marijuana Arrest Crusade:
Racial Bias and Police Policy
in New York City, 1997-2007 – Pdf -  May 08

NYCLU pages and video  about the Marijuana Arrest report  - June 08

Pastrami Land: The Jewish Deli in New York City
Contexts Magazine / July 07 - New

Troy Duster: A Biography in History American Sociological Association / Footnotes (Oct 2004)

Regard Yourself As a Writer: Unconventional Advice For New Sociology Graduate Students (Still circulating, comments welcomed)

The Secret of World-Wide Drug Prohibition: The Uses and Varieties of Drug Prohibition  The Independent Review, Fall 2002

Global Drug Prohibition: Its Uses and Crises
(Revised version of the above with some new material for a European audience, The International Journal of Drug Policy, Spring 2003

Crack In The Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Ideology    Social Justice, 2004

Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice University of California Press, 1997

Crack in Context: America's Latest Demon Drug Chapter 1 of Crack in America

Safe Treyf: New York Jews and Chinese Food  From: The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods (1997)

Global Drug Policy: A Retreat from War Contexts (new ASA magazine) Fall 2002

Blame Canada: The Specter of Marijuana Decriminalization in Canada Pacific News Service, July 2002

Drug Commissions, The Next Generation: To Boldly Go......  International Journal of Drug Policy (1994)

Alcohol Prohibition and Drug Prohibition: Lessons from Alcohol Prohibition for Drug Prohibition (Nov 2004)

Temperance Cultures: Concern About Alcohol Problems in Nordic and English-Speaking Cultures
 The Nature of Alcohol and Drug-Related Problems, 1992

The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America  From: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (a golden oldie from 1978)

10/2008