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Louis Hicks is Professor of
Sociology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he has taught since 1993. He
is a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and a
member of the U.S. team of the International Research Group for the Comparative
Charting of Social Change.
Louis Hicks was the Research Director of The First Measured Century, a
three-hour documentary about the American twentieth century that premiered on
PBS in December 2000. He is also a coauthor of the companion volume, The First
Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000 (AEI
Press, 2001), which was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial
Times, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, the Los Angeles
Times, Population and Development Review, the American Statistician, the Chicago
Tribune, Personnel Psychology, the Great Plain Sociologist and was
twice excerpted in the New York Times.
His other book, Systems of War and Peace, Second Edition (University Press of
America, 2002) was recently reviewed in Teaching Sociology and the Journal of
Political and Military Sociology.
His other publications include “The Social Impact of Military Growth in St.
Mary’s County, Maryland, 1940-1995,” Armed Forces and Society,
“Change and Continuity Since 1900,” The World and I and “Normal Accidents in
Military Operations,” Sociological Perspectives 36.
He received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland. He
received the Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 1994.
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