Thomas Cushman (sociologist)
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Thomas Cushman (born 1959)[1] is an American sociologist. He is the professor of social sciences and sociology at Wellesley College.
Cushman is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights (2011) and founder and editor-at-large of the Journal of Human Rights.[2] He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Controversial Ideas.[3]
Thomas Orton Cushman received his B.S. degree in psychology from Saint Michael's College in 1981.[4] He completed an M.A. degree in sociology at the University of Virginia in 1983 with the thesis Symbols and Social Movements: The Case of the Moral Majority.[5] Cushman then earned a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Virginia in 1987 with the thesis Ritual and the Sacralization of the Secular: Social Sources of Conformity and Order in Soviet Society.[6]
