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Enrico Ressiga Vacchini

Biography not available
L'Objet Social: Essai d'Epistemologie Sociologique. Paris: Lib. M. Riviere et Cie., 1969. 380 pp. [Review of book by Claude Riviere], Vol. 37 No. 4 (Winter 1970)

Alfred Vagts

Biography not available
A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century [Review of book by Sir Charles Oman], Vol. 5 No. 1 (Spring 1938)

Gabriel Vahanian

Gabriel Vahanian is Jeannette K. Watson Professor of Religion and Director of Graduate Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Death of God (1961), Wait Without Idols (1964), and No Other God (1966).
From Karl Barth to Theology, Vol. 41 No. 2 (Summer 1974)

Mihaly Vajda

Mihaly Vajda, a Hungarian political philosopher, is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Bremen. His most recent book is Fascism as a Mass Movement (1977).
The State and Socialism, Vol. 45 No. 4 (Winter 1978)

Wolf Graf van Baudissin

Biography not available
Changes in the Meaning of Military and Political Concepts of Peace, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)

Martin Van Creveld

Martin Van Creveld is Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include The Transformation of War (Free Press, 1990); The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israel Defense Force (Public Affairs, 1998); The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge University Press, 1999); The Art of War: Warfare and Military Thought (Cassel, 2000). He is currently working on a book entitled From the Amazons to GI Jane: Women, Men, and War.
A Woman's Place: Reflections on the Origins of Violence, Vol. 67 No. 3 (Fall 2000)

Nicolas van de Waale

Biography not available

Justus M. van der Kroef

Justus M. Van Der Kroef (Ph.D. Columbia, 1951) was born in Indonesia, of Dutch descent, and since World War II has twice returned to that area for extensive research into problems of cultural change, a subject on which he has written several books. He is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut).
Collectivism in Indonesian Society, Vol. 20 No. 2 (Summer 1953)
Chinese Assimilation in Indonesia, Vol. 20 No. 4 (Winter 1953)
Social Structure and Economic Development in Indonesia, Vol. 23 No. 3 (Fall 1956)
Patterns of Cultural Change in Three Primitive Societies, Vol. 24 No. 4 (Winter 1957)
The Acquisitive Urge: A Problem in Cultural Change, Vol. 28 No. 1 (Spring 1961)

Justus van der Kroef

Biography not available
Forum--Rejoinder to John Friedmann's Comment on The Acquisitive Urge [28:1], Vol. 28 No. 2 (Summer 1961)

Katherine S. Van Eerde

Katherine S. Van Eerde, Associate Professor of History at Muhlen?berg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, based her present paper in part on interviews with government officials from the continent of Africa and other individuals in the continent of Africa, and with officials in the United States Department of State and Department of Labor. She also had access to official files for some of her material.
Socialism in Western Europe at Mid-Century, Vol. 26 No. 4 (Winter 1959)
Problems and Alignments in African Labor, Vol. 29 No. 1 (Spring 1962)

Ranbir Varma

Biography not available
The European Common Market and India. [Review of book by K. V. G. Gowda], Vol. 35 No. 2 (Summer 1965)

Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Aesthetics and Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin.
Myth and the Destiny of Secularization, Vol. 52 No. 2 (Summer 1985)

Peter van der Veer

Peter Van Der Veer, Director of the Max Plnack Institute for the Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Gottingen and Professor at-Large at Utrecht University, has published widely on religion and Nationalism in India, including the book Religious nationalism (1994), and Imperial Encounters (2001).'
Ayodhya and Somnath: Eternal Shrines, Contested Histories, Vol. 59 No. 1 (Spring 1992)

Jonathan Veitch

Jonathan Veitch is President of Ovvidental Collge. He is the author of, American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation and Colossus in Ruins. His next book is on higher education in the United States, which will use case studies of colleges and duniversities in the United States, includng Black Mountain, Antioch, Bard, and NYU, to examine a range of contemporary issues.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Disasters, Vol. 71 No. 2 (Summer 2008)
Introduction: Academic Freedom and the Origins of the Research University, Vol. 76 No. 2 (Summer 2009)

Sydney Verba

Biography not available
Fairness, Equality, and Democracy: Three Big Words, Vol. 73 No. 2 (Summer 2006)

Katherine Verdery

Katherine Verdery is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (1996).
Nationalism, Postsocialism, and Space in Eastern Europe, Vol. 63 No. 2 (Summer 1996)

Molly Black Verene

Molly Black Verene compiled Critical Writings on Vico in English in Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity.
Critical Writings on Vico in English: A Supplement, Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter 1976)

Donald Phillip Verene

Biography not available
Vico's Philosophy of Imagination. Giorgio Tagliacozzo, Guest Editor; Michael Mooney and Donald Phillip Verene, Associate Guest Editors, Vol. 43 No. 2 (Summer 1976)
Response by the Author [to Berlin's Comments, 43:3. Giorgio Tagliacozzo, Guest Editor; Michael Mooney and Donald Phillip Verene, Associate Guest Editors, Vol. 43 No. 3 (Fall 1976)

William Vickrey

William Vickrey is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University. His books include Microstatics (1964) and Metastatics and Macroeconomics (1964).
Limitations of Keynsian Economics, Vol. 15 No. 3 (Fall 1948)
Risk, Utility, and Social Policy, Vol. 28 No. 2 (Summer 1961)
Economic Rationality and Social Choice, Vol. 44 No. 4 (Winter 1977)
Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence, Vol. 46 No. 2 (Summer 1979)

Giambattista Vico

Biography not available
On the Heroic Mind (Trans. Elizabeth Sewell and Anthony C. Sirignano), Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter 1976)

A. Vidich

Biography not available
Culture and Personality. [Review of book by Anthony F. C. Wallace], Vol. 29 No. 1 (Spring 1962)
The National Culture of India. London: Asia Publishing House [Review of book by S. Abid Husain], Vol. 22 No. 4 (Winter 1961)

Arthur J. Vidich

Arthur J. Vidichis is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His most recent book is Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (1982).
Ideological Themes in American Anthropology, Vol. 41 No. 4 (Winter 1974)
Social Conflict in the Era of Detente: New Roles for Ideologues, Revoutionaries, and Youth, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)
Political Legitimacy in Bureaucratic Society: An Analysis of Watergate, Vol. 42 No. 4 (Winter 1975)
Secular Evangelism at the University of Wisconsin, Vol. 49 No. 4 (Winter 1982)
Benjamin N. Nelson [in memoriam], Vol. 49 No. 4 (Winter 1982)
The Moral, Economic, and Political Status of Labor in American Society, Vol. 49 No. 3 (Fall 1982)

Arthur Vidich

Biography not available
Editor's Introduction, Vol. 42 No. 3 (Fall 1975)
The Higher Dialectic of Philanthropy, Vol. 30 No. 4 (Winter 1963)
Special Editor's Note: The Future of Latin America, Vol. 36 No. 1 (Spring 1968)
Sociology and Society: Disciplinay Tensions and Professional Compromises, Vol. 48 No. 2 (Summer 1981)

Thomas Vietorisz

Thomas Vietorisz is Professor of Economics in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He coauthored Planning and Programming the Metalworking Industries with Special View to Exports (1972).
Planning and Political Economy, Vol. 50 No. 2 (Summer 1983)

Dana Villa

Packey J. Dee, Professor of Political Theory at the Universite of Notre Dame, is the author of several books, including Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political (Princeton, 1996), Politics, Philosophy, Terror (Princeton, 1999), and Socratic Citizenship (Princeton, 2001). A new book, Public Freedom, is forthcoming from Princeton in 2008. Villa is currently working on a book entitled Teachers of the People, which looks at the political pedagogy of Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Marx.
Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition, Vol. 74 No. 4 (Winter 2007)

Oswald Garrison Villard

Biography not available
Social-Economic Movements [Review of book by Harry W. Laidler], Vol. 12 No. 3 (Fall 1945)

Margaret Visser

Margaret Visser, a popular food historian worldwide, is the author of such books as The Way We Are (1997), The Rituals of Dinner (1991), and Much Depends on Dinner (1989), winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award in Britain for the Food Book of the Year. Her six-part series on everyday life in six European cities was broadcast by BBC Radio Four in early 1998.
Food and Culture: Interconnections, Vol. 66 No. 1 (Spring 1999)

Eliseo Vivas

Eliseo Vivas, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, has written several books in the field of art and culture and is working on three new books, including The Development of the Current Intellectual Ethos
Is A Conservative Philosophical Anthropology Possible?, Vol. 35 No. 3 (Fall 1968)

Gerald Vizenor

Gerald Vizenor is Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Summer Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He recently published Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) and Manifest Manners (1994).
Wild Animals in Print: Representation and Transformations of Animals in Novels by Native American Indians, Vol. 62 No. 3 (Fall 1995)

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin (1901 - 1985) was Professor of Political Theory and Sociology at the University of Vienna. He wrote 2 books against Nazi racism and fled Germany in 1938. He taught at Louisiana State University from 1942 - 1958. He taught at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t in Munich and was Chair of Political Science. In 1969 he moved back the the U.S. joining Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace as Henry Salvatori Fellow in California.
Old China Hand and the Foreign Office [Review of book by Nathan A. Pelcovits], Vol. 16 No. 1 (Spring 1948)
The Foundation of Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy. [Review of book by Marvin Farber], Vol. 11 No. 3 (Fall 1944)
The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding [Review of book by F. S. C. Northrop], Vol. 14 No. 1 (Spring 1947)

Jerome Vogel

Jerome Vogel was the first Fulbright Professor at the University of Abidjan and now directs the Parsons School of Design program in West Africa.
Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Cote d'Ivoire, Vol. 58 No. 2 (Summer 1991)

Frank E. Vogel

Biography not available
The Public and Private in Saudi Arabia: Restritions on the Powers of Committees for Ordering the Good and Forbidding the Evil, Vol. 70 No. 3 (Fall 2003)

Eric Vogelin

Biography not available
The Origins of Semitism, Vol. 15 No. 4 (Winter 1948)

Fred R. von der Mehden

Fred R. Von Der Mehden is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. His work on the developing areas centers especially on Southeast Asia, and he has recently completed a book on religion and nationalism in that area.

Kurt von Fritz

Biography not available
Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory [Review of book by Max Hamburger], Vol. 19 No. 4 (Winter 1952)
Phyllobia. Fur Peter con der Muhll zum 60. Geburstag [Review of book by Kurt von Fritz]., Vol. 29 No. 4 (Winter 1948)

Andrew Von Hirsch

Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge and the Founding Director of the Center for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Crimonology. His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principals (with Ashworth, 2005).
The Desert Model for Sentencing: Its Influences, Prospects, and Alternatives, Vol. 74 No. 2 (Summer 2007)

Carl Friedrich von Weisacher

Biography not available
Can We Plan for Peace?, Vol. 42 No. 1 (Spring 1975)