Alexander M. Hicks (born 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a sociologist who principally studies the causes and consequences of social democracy, corporatism, the welfare state and the sociology of culture, literature and film. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Emory University, where he has been since 1986 (as Chair of Sociology 1988‑91, as Full Professor 1993-2017, as Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology 2007-10) following an instructorship and assistant professorship at Northwestern University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the NORC, University of Chicago.[1] Graduate students have included Kali-Ahset Amen (Johns Hopkins University), Desmond King (Nuffield College, Oxford), Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), 2022-2023 President Elect of the American Sociological Association, Dan Slater (University of Michigan) and Duane Swank (Marquette University). He has delivered invited talks at the Juan Bosch Institute in Madrid, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, and at universities including the University of Chicago, Columbia, Indiana University, Taiwan's National Chung Chung University, New York University, Stanford and Yale. He has been married to Nancy Ellen Traynor Hicks (in corporate communications 1975-2015) since 1970; they have a son, Ryan, working in New York City in the nonprofit promotion of affordable housing. Education Hicks attended public, parochial, and private primary and secondary schools in Weehawken, NJ, Rye, NY, Santiago, Chile, Manhattan, and Arlington, VA. He graduated from McGill University with honors in Sociology in 1969. He received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied on fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundations and the NIMH, in 1979. Major works Books Hicks, Alexander M. 1999. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism. Cornell University Press. ; . Winner of the Luebbert Award for best book on comparative politics, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2000. Edited volumes Janoski, Thomas and Alexander M. Hicks, eds. 1994. The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State: New Methodologies and Approaches. Cambridge University Press. ; . Janoski, Thomas, Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks, and Mildred A. Schwartz, eds. 2004. The Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge University Press. ; . Kenworthy, Lane and Alexander M. Hicks, eds. 2008. Method and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis. Palgrave. ; . Articles Hicks, Alexander M. and Duane H. Swank. 1984. "Governmental Redistribution in Rich Capitalist Democracies." Policy Studies Journal. . Hicks, Alexander M. and Duane H. Swank. 1984. "On the Political Economy of Welfare Expansion: A Comparative Analysis of