Louis Hicks

Louis Hicks is currently Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he has taught since 1993. He has been a visiting professor at Brigham Young University, the U.S. Army War College, the Canadian Forces College, Nanjing University, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), and Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan). From 1998 to 2000 he was the Research Director of The First Measured Century, a PBS television documentary about the rise of the social sciences in America. He is a co-author (with Theodore Caplow and Ben Wattenberg) of its companion volume, The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000. As part of that project, he participated in Middletown IV, a replication of the famous community studies by Robert and Helen Lynd. He also co-authored Systems of War and Peace. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including Armed Forces and Society, Sociological Perspectives, City and Community, and College Student Journal. He is a Life Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and serves on its Council. During 2007-2008, he served as Chair of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict of the American Sociological Association.