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.

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.