Alexander Riley

Educational Background

• Ph.D. University of California, San Diego

Courses Typically Offered

• SOCI 110: Social Problems in the 21st Century
• SOCI 140: American Society and Culture
• SOCI 205: The View from the Right: Conservative, Reactionary, and Anti-Revolutionary Thought in the Western World
• SOCI 211: Classical Sociological Theory
• SOCI 212: Contemporary Sociological Theory
• SOCI 240: The Social Forms of Religious Life: Religion's Role in Social Order and Conflict
• SOCI 252: Faces of Death: Death in Human Nature and Culture
• SOCI 328: The Opium of the Intellectuals: Utopianism and Political Religion among the Western Intellectual Classes

Selected Publications

• Toward a Biosocial Science: Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life, New York and London: Routledge, 2021
• Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse, ed., New York and London: Routledge, 2020
• The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, ed. with Alf Siewers, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019
• Angel Patriots in the Sky: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2015
• The Social Thought of Émile Durkheim, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2014
• Godless Intellectuals?: The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented, New York: Berghahn Books, 2010
• Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010