Howard Lune

Howard Lune, a Professor of Sociology, specializes in research on organizations and organizational fields, with a particular focus on nonprofit organizations. The majority of his research concerns the efforts by relatively marginal groups to organize for greater political, social and/or economic power. His most recent work is a historical study of the development of the American Irish collective identity, from the founding the US to the end of the twentieth century.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2020.

	Berg, Bruce L., & Howard Lune 2011. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences, 8/E. Boston, MA: Pearson
	Understanding Organizations. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press See review.
	Lune, Howard. 2007. Urban Action Networks: HIV/AIDS and Community Organizing in New York City. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Winner of the 2009 Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award from ARNOVA - The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
	Howard Lune, Enrique S. Pumar, Ross Koppel. Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis. A Reader for Sociology. SAGE Publications Inc.

Articles

2015	Lune, Howard. “The Test: Ritual as a framing device in the construction of cultural nationalism.” The Irish Journal of Sociology 23(2): 3-28.
2015	Lune, Howard. “Transnational Nationalism: Strategic Action Fields and the Organization of the Fenian Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 38: 3-35.
2007	Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro and Howard Lune. “Street Ethos in High School: School as an Educational Deterrent.” City and Community Vol. 6, No. 3, pages 173-191.
2005	Kelley, Margaret, Howard Lune and Sheigla Murphy. “Doing Needle Exchange: Prevention Point Service Providers and Organizational Transformation.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Vol. 34, No. 3, pages 362-386.
2004	Sheigla Murphy, Kelley, Margaret and Howard Lune. “The Health Benefits of Secondary Syringe Exchange.” Journal of Drug Issues Vol. 34, No. 2, pages 245-268.
2004	Lichtenberg, Ilya, Howard Lune and Patrick MacManimon. “Darker than any Prison, Hotter than any Human Flame: Voluntariness as a Moral Component of Treatment,” The Journal of Criminal Justice Education Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 429-450.
2003	Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro and Howard Lune. “School Violence: The Bi-directional Conflict Flow Between Neighborhood and School.” City and Community Vol. 2, No. 4, pages 353-368.
2002	Lune, Howard. “Reclamation Activism in Anti-drug Organizing in the U.S.” Social Movement Studies. Vol.1, No.2, pages 147-68.
2002	Lune, Howard. “Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 4, pages 463-483.