Jack Hammond

John L. Hammond, known as Jack, is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Most of his research has been on social movements and Latin America, separately and in combination. He is the author of Building Popular Power: Workers’ and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution and Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador. He has also written about the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers Movement (MST), the Bolivian indigenous movement, the World Social Forum, Occupy Wall Street, and general human rights issues. He is making a late-career transition to a specialization in environmental sociology and is working on two projects. The first is an analysis of the meaning of ecosocialist agriculture; the second is an empirical study of the effects of race, ethnicity, and income on exposure to and responsibility for pollution. He is a participating editor of Latin American Perspectives and recently retired after nearly thirty years on the editorial board of NACLA Report on the Americas. He is a past chair of the Task Force on Human Rights and Academic Freedom of the Latin American Studies Association.