Corey Dolgon
Born	(1961-12-13) December 13, 1961 (age 64) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education	Boston University B.A. Baylor University M.A. University of Michigan, Ph.D.
Occupations	Author Sociologist
Spouse	Deborah Milbauer married 2001-present
Children	Bailey Dolgon, Ruby Dolgon
Parent(s)	Arlene and Fred Dolgon

Corey Dolgon is an American author and sociologist.^[1]

Dolgon was born in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island before moving to Cherry Hill, NJ,^[2] where he graduated from Cherry Hill West High School in 1980.^[3]

Dolgon's undergraduate thesis on folksongs and the American labor movement^[4] formed the foundation for a “singing lecture” that he has performed at dozens of colleges and universities and other venues around the country and around the world for almost two decades.^[5]

After working as a dorm director at Boston University and an organizer for the Public Interest research group in Michigan (PIRGIM),^[6] Dolgon obtained his PHD at the University of Michigan in 1987. While at the University of Michigan, Dolgon was an environmental activist, an anti-racism activist, a union organizer (Graduate Employees Organization), and a community activist.^[6]

He ran for Washtenaw County Commissioner in 1992.^[7]

Dolgon completed his PhD in American culture in 1994, entitled Innovators and Gravediggers: capital restructuring and class formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994.^[8] Additionally, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Junk Freedom, published in Critical Sociology, and Dim Mirrors, Dark Glasses: But This is Not Our Fate, published in Humanity & Society.

Dolgon worked with the Friends World Program of Long Island University from 1994 until 1997.^[9] After that, Dolgon began working as a sociology professor at Worcester State College [WSC], where he served as departmental chair from 1999 until 2009.^[2] Dolgon also served as editor of Humanity & Society: The Journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology Humanity & Society from 2000 to 2006, and was president of the organization in 2008.^[10]

In 2009, Dolgon became the inaugural director of Stonehill College's Office of Community Based Learning.^[11] He is also a tenured, full professor at Stonehill College. As a scholar, Dolgon has published five books, textbooks and anthologies. His first monograph, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, won two book awards including The Association for Humanist Sociology's 2005 Book of the Year Award^[12] and the American Sociology Association's Marxist Section Book of the Year in 2007.^[13]

• Dolgon, Corey (2017). Kill it to save it: an autopsy of capitalism's triumph over democracy. Bristol: Policy press. ISBN 978-1-4473-1713-5.
• Dolgon, Corey; Mitchell, Tania D.; Eatman, Timothy K. (February 1, 2017). The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-88326-6.
• Dolgon, Corey; Baker, Chris (2010-08-03). Social Problems. Los Angeles London: SAGE Publications, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-7619-2947-5.
• Dolgon, Corey; Chayko, Mary (March 2010). Pioneers of Public Sociology. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Pub. ISBN 978-1-59738-026-3.
• Dolgon, Corey (2005). The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1958-9.

Dolgon is married to Deborah Milbauer, a public health consultant and instructor at Northeastern University.^[14] They have two daughters.^[15]

Dolgon's uncle, Herman Dolgon, was a WWII veteran who was a community organizer and activist in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn NY. Herman Dolgon helped organize veterans and supporters to pressure the New York City Housing Authority to build low-income public housing for returning vets. The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Department named a playground for Herman Dolgon in 1951.^[16]