Corey Dolgon is an American author and sociologist.[1]
Dolgon was born in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island before moving to Cherry Hill, NJ,[2] where he graduated from Cherry Hill West High School in 1980.[3]
Dolgon's undergraduate thesis on folksongs and the American labor movement[4] formed the foundation for a “singing lecture” that he has performed at dozens of colleges and universities and other venues around the country and around the world for almost two decades.[5]
After working as a dorm director at Boston University and an organizer for the Public Interest research group in Michigan (PIRGIM),[6] Dolgon obtained his PHD at the University of Michigan in 1987. While at the University of Michigan, Dolgon was an environmental activist, an anti-racism activist, a union organizer (Graduate Employees Organization), and a community activist.[7]
He ran for Washtenaw County Commissioner in 1992.[8]
Dolgon completed his PhD in American culture in 1994, entitled Innovators and Gravediggers: capital restructuring and class formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994.[9] Additionally, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Junk Freedom, published in Critical Sociology, and Dim Mirrors, Dark Glasses: But This is Not Our Fate, published in Humanity & Society.
Dolgon worked with the Friends World Program of Long Island University from 1994 until 1997.[10] After that, Dolgon began working as a sociology professor at Worcester State College [WSC], where he served as departmental chair from 1999 until 2009.[11] Dolgon also served as editor of Humanity & Society: The Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology Humanity & Societyfrom 2000 to 2006, and was president of the organization in 2008.[12]
In 2009, Dolgon became the inaugural director of Stonehill College's Office of Community Based Learning.[13] He is also a tenured, full professor at Stonehill College. As a scholar, Dolgon has published five books, textbooks and anthologies. His first monograph, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, won two book awards including The Association for Humanist Sociology's 2005 Book of the Year Award[14] and the American Sociology Association's Marxist Section Book of the Year in 2007.[15]
Dolgon is married to Deborah Milbauer, a public health consultant and instructor at Northeastern University.[16] They have two daughters.[17]
Dolgon's uncle, Herman Dolgon, was a WWII veteran who was a community organizer and activist in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn NY. Herman Dolgon helped organize veterans and supporters to pressure the New York City Housing Authority to build low-income public housing for returning vets. The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Department named a playground for Herman Dolgon in 1951.[18]