Michael Mann
Michael Mann is a British-American sociologist and professor at UCLA since 1987, holding dual citizenship.
He earned his B.A. in Modern History (1963) and D.Phil. in Sociology (1971) from Oxford.
Previously, he taught at the London School of Economics (1977-1987) and currently serves as visiting professor at Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast.
Mann's influential 1984 work on state power established frameworks for studying despotic and infrastructural authority.
His major works include the multi-volume The Sources of Social Power and The Dark Side of Democracy, examining 20th-century power dynamics and democracy's violent dimensions.
