Stephen M. Engel

Stephen Engel
Born Stephen Marcus Engel
Colts Neck, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence Portland, Maine, U.S.
Occupation Professor, political scientist
Academic background
Alma mater Wesleyan University
New York University
Yale University
Thesis 'A Mere Party Machine?' Judicial Authority, Party Development, and the Changing Politics of Attacking the Courts
Academic work
Institutions Marquette University (2009–2011)
Bates College (2011–present)
Main interests Constitutional law
American political development
Sexuality politics
Notable ideas "Less-than-whole citizens"

Stephen Marcus Engel is an American academic and political scientist who is currently an associate professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He is an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Association, a bar association tasked with setting law school academic standards and the creation of Ethical codes in the United States.

He is known for his development of governmental inter-branch relations in American political development (APD) in his debut work, American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and the Changing Responses to Judicial Power. Engel is credited with the creation of the "Less-than-whole citizens" designation in social theory. He outlines the classification in his third book, Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives, was released in 2016, in an account of the partiality of political change in the U.S. impacting the LGBTQ community.[1][2]

Academic career

Stephen Marcus Engel graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in the College of Social Studies in 1998. He received his master's degree from New York University (NYU) in 2001 in humanities and social thought. After a brief stint working at NYU, Engel attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he received his M.A., MPhil., and PhD in political science during the years 2005, 2006, and 2009, respectively.[3]

Upon receiving his doctorate, he was appointed as an assistant professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[4] During the summer of 2010, he went to New York City to work as a research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University before concluding his professorship at Marquette in 2011. He went on to become a research scholar at the American Bar Association from August 2013 to July 2014.[5]

In August 2011, he was appointed to the politics faculty of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine as an assistant professor. During the same year, he was designated an affiliated scholar of the American Bar Association–a distinction he holds as of April 2017.[5] On August 27, 2015, Engel was promoted to associate professor with tenure.[6] As of August 2015, he is the Chair of the Politics Department of Bates College.[3]

Work and ideas

Engel's main research topics focus on the sociopolitical mobilization of the LGBTQ community, constitutional law, and political development.[7] According to Google Scholar, he has been cited by 259 times by other academic scholarship as of May 2017.[7]

'Less-than-whole' citizens

In Engel's third book, Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives, he recounts the increase in rights for same-sex couples in the late 2000s and early 2010s. He referred to the gay and lesbian couples of America as the titular "fragmented citizens," or most notably "Less-than-whole citizens"[8] which encompassed the partiality of political change noted in their societal development. While the LGBTQ community received societal preference to other disadvantaged minority groups, they were considered a step above Second-class citizens, yet in the eyes of the law and society, not holders of full citizenship. This is to say, they did not reap the same awards from the citizenship they were given.[8] Engel notes that it is the role of "American institutions to recognize gays and lesbians as full citizens."[9] He uses the example of gay marriage status in the U.S. to illustrate his term. In the U.S., gay and lesbian Americans still face discrimination in the workplace as of 2016.[8] He states:

[The members of the LGBTQ community] still do not have full legal protections against workplace, housing, family, and other kinds of discrimination. There remains a continuing struggle of the state to control the sexuality of gay and lesbian citizens—they continue to be fragmented citizens. The understanding the development of the idea of gay and lesbian individuals as 'less-than-whole' citizens can help us make sense of the government's continued resistance to full equality despite massive changes in public opinion. Furthermore, it is the state's ability to identify and control gay and lesbian citizens that allowed it to develop strong administrative capacities to manage all of its citizens in matters of immigration, labor relations, and even national security. The struggle for gay and lesbian rights, then, affects not only the lives of those seeking equality but also the very nature of American governance itself.[8]

While typical restrictions on second-class citizens includes disenfranchisement, restrictions on language, religion, education, and property ownership. "Less-than-whole citizens" typically are restricted with limitations on civil or military service freedom of movement and association, marriage, gender identity and expression. In other words, "Less-than-whole citizens" are those who are denied post-materialist needs as opposed to materialist needs.[8]

Political views

In March 2013, MarketPlace, interviewed Engel in a piece entitled: How much does a big Supreme Court case like gay marriage cost?. Estimates brought forward of $100,000 to $250,000 where linked to "experts who help prepare the case, the salaries of the justices, their clerks, their staff, the opposing lawyers. And there are the costs of filing amicus briefs."[10]

In March 2014, Engel is a supporter and advocate of the LGBTQ movement. He wrote a post on Talking Points Memo criticizing 1990s Honey Maid advertising campaigns for being heteronormative. He stated: "These men are white. This family is affluent. And they are men; their gender presentation is normative in no way conflicting with traditional conceptions of masculinity. Without denying that the ad reveals the tremendous progress made in the achievement of gay rights and recognition, it simultaneously demonstrates the limits."[11]

On April 5, 2017, Engel was interviewed by Maine Public Radio, where he expressed sentiments about Donald Trump's executive cabinet, the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, and congressional redistricting (i.e. Gerrymandering).[12]

Personal life

Engel resides in Portland, Maine.[8]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Engel, Stephen. 2001. "The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement." New York: Cambridge University Press.[13]
  • Engel, Stephen. 2011. "American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and the Changing Responses to Judicial Power." New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Engel, Stephen. 2016. "Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Lesbian and Gay Lives." New York: New York University Press.

Articles

  • Engel, Stephen. 2009. “Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Regime Unity, Loyal Opposition, and Hostilities toward Judicial Authority in Early America," Studies in American Political Development.
  • Engel, Stephen. 2007. "Political Education in/as the Practice of Freedom: A Paradoxical Defense from the Perspective of Michael Oakeshott." Journal of the Philosophy of Education.
  • Engel, Stephen. 2007. "Organizational Identity as a Constraint on Strategic Action: A Comparative Study of Gay and Lesbian Interest Groups." Studies in American Political Development.
  • Engel, Stephen. 2004. "Marketing Everyday Life: The Postmodern Commodity Aesthetic of Abercrombie & Fitch." Advertising & Society.
  • Engel, Stephen. 2000. "Microcosms of Modernism: Understanding Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Urban Planning within the Dissolution of the Cartesian Project." Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Engel, Stephen M. (January 1, 2016). Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479809127. JSTOR j.ctt1803zdc.
  2. ↑ "Fragmented Citizens | The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives | Books – NYU Press | NYU Press". nyupress.org. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  3. 1 2 "Stephen Engel, Chair | Politics | Bates College". www.bates.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ↑ "Prof. Stephen Engel Joins the Department | News | Department of Political Science | Marquette University". www.marquette.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  5. 1 2 Foundation, American Bar. "Stephen Engel – American Bar Foundation". www.americanbarfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  6. ↑ "Bates announces seven faculty promotions, including four tenure decisions". August 27, 2015. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  7. 1 2 "Stephen Marcus Engel – Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Engel, Stephen (2016). Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives. NYU Press. ISBN 1479809128.
  9. ↑ Engel, Stephen M. (May 24, 2016). Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479809127.
  10. ↑ "How much does a big Supreme Court case like gay marriage cost?". Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  11. ↑ "Politics professor Stephen Engel analyzes gay identity in Honey Maid's 'Wholesome' ad". 2014-03-14. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  12. ↑ Rooks, Jennifer. "National Political Analysis". Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  13. ↑ Engel, Stephen M. (2001). The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement. Cambridge University Press.
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