WAGNER, David 1950-

PERSONAL: Born January 31, 1950, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Sam (in sales) and Sylvia (a homemaker and school aide; maiden name, Goldberg) Wagner; married Marcia B. Cohen (a professor), August 5, 1980. Education: Columbia University, B.A., 1972, M.S., 1976; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.A., 1980; City University of New York, Ph.D., 1988. Hobbies and other interests: Painting, films, reading, dogs.

ADDRESSES: Home—14 Clinton St., Portland, ME 04103. Office—Department of Social Work and Sociology, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME 04103.

CAREER: Social worker in New York, NY, 1972-78; Service Employees International Union, Worcester, MA, labor organizer, beginning 1978, became president; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, New York, NY, labor organizer, ending 1984; Columbia University, New York, NY, lecturer in social work and assistant director of field work, 1985-88; University of Southern Maine, Portland, associate professor of social work, 1988—, chair of social work department.

MEMBER: International Sociological Association, National Education Association (member of university executive board), American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Social Welfare Worker Action Alliance.

AWARDS, HONORS: C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1993; Book Award, Northeast Popular Cultural Association, 1998.

WRITINGS:

The Quest for a Radical Profession, University Press of America (Washington, DC), 1990.

Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in aHomeless Society, Westview (Boulder, CO), 1993.

The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice, Westview (Boulder, CO), 1996.

What's Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look atAmerican Charity, New Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to books. Contributor to professional journals.