Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures/Sociology/Political Science
andymark@umich.eduCenter for European Studies; CES Faculty; CREES Faculty Associates; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; WCED Faculty Affiliates; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
Education/Degree:
Columbia University, Ph.D. (Political Science); Columbia University, M.B.A.; Columbia University, M.A. (Philosophy); Columbia University, B.A.
Highlighted Work and Publications
From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion
Andrei S. Markovits, Katherine N. Crosby
Description from Publisher:
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways. In From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion, Andrei Markovits and Katherine Crosby describe a “discourse of compassion” that actually alters the way we treat persons and ideas once...
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
Andrei S. Markovits, Emily Albertson
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports—acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women. Sportista chronicles the relationship that women have ...
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann
Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann take readers into the exciting global sports scene, showing how soccer, football, baseball, basketball, and hockey have given rise to a collective identity among millions of predominantly male fans in the United States, Europe, and around the rest of the world. They trace how these global--and globalizing--sports emerged from local pastimes in America, Britain, and Canada over the course of the twentieth century, and...
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Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America
Andrei S. Markovits
While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday...
See MoreAmerika, dich haßt sich's besser: Antiamerikanismus und Antisemitismus in Europa
Andrei Markovits
Publisher: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag
Year of Publication: 2004
Location: Hamburg
# of Pages: 239
ISBN: 978-3930786459
Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism
Andrei Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Month of Publication: May
Year of Publication: 2001
# of Pages: 362
ISBN: 978-0691074474
The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe
Andrei Markovits
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Month of Publication: April
Year of Publication: 1997
# of Pages: 248
ISBN: 978-0801428029
The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond
Andrei Markovits, Philip S. Gorski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Month of Publication: October
Year of Publication: 1993
# of Pages: 416
ISBN: 978-0195210538
