Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus of sociology from M.I.T..[1] He previously held professorships at Harvard University and the University of Colorado. He is the author of Protest and Prejudice, Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (with Douglas McAdam), and the editor of Racial Conflict, Muckraking Sociology, Undercover: Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective (with C. Fijnaut) and other books. With Norman Goodman, he revised Society Today and edited Sociology: Popular and Classical Approaches. Undercover received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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Marx has been a research associate at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies and Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Center, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1987–1988; 1996–1997) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997–1998). In 1970, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he has received grants from the National Institute of Justice, National Science Foundation, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Whiting Foundation, and the German government. He has been a consultant to, or served on panels for, several national commissions, the House Committee on the Judiciary, the House Science Committee, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Justice Department, and other federal agencies, state and local governments, the Canadian House of Commons, the National Academy of Sciences, SSRC, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Chief Police Officers, public interest groups, foundations and think tanks.
Marx has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Diego, Santa Barbara and Irvine, Wellesley College, Boston College, Boston University, the Schools of Criminal Justice at SUNY/Albany and Florida State University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, the Universities of Leuven and Louvain-La-Neuve, the Technical University of Vienna, the Onati Institute (Spain), Nankai University (PRC), and Harvey Mudd College; and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Arizona State University, the University of Washington, West Virginia University, the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio and the Max Planck Institute at Freiburg. He has given a large number of talks at American, European and Asian universities.
Marx was named the American Sociological Association's Jensen Lecturer for 1989-1990. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from its section on Crime, Law and Deviance, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association and the Bruce C. Smith Award for research achievement. In 1992 he was the inaugural Stice Memorial Lecturer in residence at the University of Washington and he has been a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow and the A.D. Carlson Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences at West Virginia University.
Marx's writings primarily deal with social control, technology, race relations, and conflict. His work has appeared or been reprinted in over 300 books, monographs and periodicals and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Dutch, German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Portuguese and other languages. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of Social Issues, Theory and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Psychology, Yale Law Review, Michigan Law Review, International Annals of Criminology, Urban Life, Sociology and Social Research, Crime and Delinquency, Victimology, Computer Software Law Journal, and many other outlets.
Marx has also written for popular sources including: California Monthly, Computerworld, Abacus, The Nation, The New Republic, Dissent, Harvard Business Review, Society, Psychology Today, Saturday Review, Race Today, The Futurist, Technology Review, Whole Earth Review, UNESCO Courier, California Lawyer, The Responsive Community, the Encyclopædia Britannica, World Book Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, the Encyclopedia of Democracy, the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, the Encyclopedia of Violence, the Encyclopedia of Ethical Issues in Politics and the Media, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, the Encyclopedia of Social Theory, the Privacy Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has participated in and helped to develop a number of radio and television documentaries.