Distinguished Faculty AwardT. DUNBAR MOODIE
T. Dunbar Moodie
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
1976-2014
At HWS from 1976-2014, Moodie, a specialist on South Africa, taught courses such as “Classical Sociological Theory,” “The Sociology of Everyday Life,” “Power and Powerlessness,” and “Sociological Theories of Religion.” He served as Chair of the Anthropology and Sociology Department from 1976-1979 and in the fall of 1995 and 1997.
Between 1990 and 1992, he took two years of leave from HWS because he had a grant from the Ford Foundation to run a program at Andover Newton Theological School for selected South African community activists who were also committed church people. While at Andover Newton, he also taught courses on religion and society to graduate students at Harvard Divinity School.
In addition to faculty research grants from HWS, Moodie also received many academic fellowships, including grants from the U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (for Research in Peace and Security).
He is the author of Going for Gold (1994) and The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and the Afrikaner Civil Religion(1980) and numerous journal articles.
Moodie holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Harvard University, an M.A. in Theology from Oxford University, a B.A. from Oxford University as a Scholar of St. Edmund Hall and a B.Scs. in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Rhodes University.
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