Jonathan White

Dr. Jonathan M. White is director of the Bentley Service-Learning Center and associate professor of sociology at Bentley University, having prior taught at Bridgewater State University, Colby College, Bowdoin College, and Framingham State University.  His primary areas of specialization are domestic and global inequality; political economy; globalization and human rights; social entrepreneurship and social innovation; war, peace, and genocide; and experiential and service-learning. Dr. White has received numerous teaching and humanitarian awards, including Faculty teaching awards at Framingham State, Bridgewater State, Colby, and Bowdoin.  He was the founding director of the nonprofit Sports for Hunger and the Hunger Resource Center and has created or helped to develop the international Halloween for Hunger (now We Scare Hunger), We are Silent, 10-by-10, One Night Out, Brick-by-Brick and Pass the Fast campaigns. Professor White sits on, and has chaired, numerous Boards of Directors for nonprofit organizations locally, nationally, and internationally. He also is a strategic consultant who has overseen the strategic planning processes for dozens of nonprofit organizations and has served as Senior Consultant to the AP (Advanced Placement) service-learning program.

Dr. White’s books include The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community (co-authored with Shelley K. White 6th Edition), Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice (co-edited with Kathleen Korgen and Shelley White, 2014, 2nd Edition), Sociologists in Action on Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (co-edited with Shelley White and Kathleen Korgen, 2015).  Dr. White has authored articles and book chapters in the fields of inequality and globalization, most recently an introduction to the community based learning chapter in the Cambridge Handbook on Service-Learning, a chapter on service-learning for the Cambridge Handbook on Social Problems, and a chapter on the connections between militarism, military budget, and public health in the book Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals. He also is currently working on a book on hunger in the United States titled Hungry to Be Heard: Voices From a Malnourished America.  Professor White teaches courses on social entrepreneurship; domestic and global inequalities; war and peace; human rights; globalization and political economy; and genocide and political violence and oversees the Bentley Minor in Nonprofit Leadership.  Professor White plays tennis, travels frequently, and is the proud uncle to his 13 nieces and nephews.

Education

• Ph.D. Boston College
• M.A. Boston College
• B.A. Brandeis University

Teaching Interests

Social Inequality; Global Social Problems; Political Economy; Genocide and Political Violence; Human Rights; Social Entrepreneurship; Community Engagement and Social Movements

Research Interests

Social Inequality, Poverty and Hunger, Public Sociology and Scholarship, Social Movements and Activism

Consulting/Practice Interests

Strategic Planning Consultant for numerous nonprofits, including local, national, and international. Nonprofit Board of Directors for several organizations, local, national, and international. Senior Consultant to AP With WE Service.

Publications

Books

• White, J. M. (2022). Rising Up: Young Activists Leading Us in Human Rights, Equity, Planetary Survival, and Social Justice. New York, New York: Routledge Forthcoming.
• White, J. M., White, S. K. (2019). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community, 6th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing
• Korgen, K., w, ., white, m. (2014). Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice. 2nd 312. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., White, J. M. (2014). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting Classroom to Community. 5thThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., White, J. M. (2013). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting Classroom to Community. 4thThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., w, ., white, m. (2010). Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice. 1st 312. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., White, J. M. (2010). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting Classroom to Community. 3rdThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., White, J. M. (2009). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting Classroom to Community. 2ndThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., White, J. M. (2007). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting Classroom to Community. 1stThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• White, J. S. (). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community, 7th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing Forthcoming.
• White, M., white, j., Korgen, K. (). Sociologists in Action: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. 208. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Book Chapters

• Dolgon, C., Mitchell, T. (2017). Engaged Learning and Scholarship In and Across Disciplines In , (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Service-Learning Community Engagement. 552. Cambridge:
• White, M., White, J., Korgen, K. (2014). Creating FAMily: Mentoring for Social Change In , (Eds.) Sociologists in Action: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. 208. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Korgen, K., w, ., white, m. (2010). Sociology Is Action: Using Sociology for Children’s Rights In , (Eds.) Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice. 1st 312. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
• Wiist, W., White, M. (). Militarism and Public Health: How the Gluttony of Our Military Economy Leaves Our Health and Welfare Programs Underserved In , (Eds.) Preventing War, Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals. Unsure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Forthcoming.
• Derber, C. (). Generation Y Not: Supporting Millennials in Multidirectional Activisms In , (Eds.) How To Change Everything: Universalizing Resistance in the Trump Era and Beyond . New York: Paradigm/Routledge Forthcoming.