John Hammond
Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1970

Bio: John L. Hammond received his B.A. in History from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador; Building Popular Power: Workers’ and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution; and The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior. His current research is on media and performance in Occupy Wall Street; and environmental impacts. He teaches courses on Sociology of Work, American Society, Environmental Sociology, Development and Globalization, and Latin American Societies. He also teaches at the Graduate Center (GC). He is the former chair of the Latin American Studies Association task force on human rights and academic freedom and a member of the editorial boards of Latin American Perspectives and NACLA Report on the Americas.

Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador; Building Popular Power: Workers’ and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution