Resume

• 2013

  Max A.

  Greenberg

  Bentley University

  Boston University

  Simmons College

  University of Southern California

  Simmons College

  Teaching Assistant

  University of Southern California

  Bentley University

  Lecturer

  Boston University

• 2008

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Sociology

  University of Southern California

• 2002

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Sociology

  University of Southern California

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  University of Massachusetts

  Amherst

• Academic Writing

  Program Development

  Teaching

  Grant Writing

  University Teaching

  Higher Education

  Sociology

  Qualitative Research

  Program Evaluation

  Policy Analysis

  Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women

  Tal Peretz

  Michael A. Messner

  This book

  based on life history interviews with men and women anti-violence activists aged 22 to 70

  explores the strains and tensions of men’s work as feminist allies. When feminist women began to mobilize against rape and domestic violence

  setting up shelters and rape crisis centers

  a few men asked what they could do to help. They were directed “upstream

  ” and told to “talk to the men” with the goal of preventing future acts of violence. \n\nThis is a book about men who took this charge seriously

  committing themselves to working with boys and men to stop violence

  and to change the social definition of what it means to be a man. The book examines the experiences of three generational cohorts: a “movement cohort” of men who engaged with anti-violence work in the 1970s and early 1980s

  during the height of the feminist anti-violence mobilizations; a “bridge cohort” who engaged with anti-violence work from the mid-1980s into the 1990s

  as feminism receded as a mass movement and activists built sustainable organizations; a “professional cohort” who engaged from the mid-1990s to the present

  as anti-violence work has become embedded in community and campus organizations

  non-profits

  and the state. \n\nAcross these different time periods

  stories from life history interviews illuminate men’s varying pathways—including men of different racial/ethnic and class backgrounds—into anti-violence work. The book explores the promise of men’s violence prevention work with boys and men in schools

  college sports

  fraternities

  the U.S. military. The book also illuminates the strains and tensions of such work—including the ways male privilege is reproduced in feminist spheres—and explores the ways that men and women navigate these tensions.

  Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women

  Michael A. Messner

  Before Prevention: The Trajectory and Tensions of Feminist Anti-Violence

  Greenberg