Jonathan Martin has taught at Framingham State University since 2001. He likes to educate students about power and inequality, stimulate intensive student discussion, and make sociology relevant to everyday life. His scholarship identifies hidden opportunities for advancing social, economic and environmental justice, as well as democracy. Dr. Martin has researched economic populist attitudes among the middle class; the challenge of student alienation for critical educators, and most recently, ways for building stronger third political politics. In support of the last project, he has supervised over seventy interns and research assistants at the undergraduate and graduate level from colleges and universities across the US and parts of Europe. He has published his work in academic journals, including Sociological Forum, New Political Science, Humanity and Society, and Equity and Excellence in Education, and in popular press outlets, like HuffPost and CounterPunch. He also is the editor of and contributor to the book Empowering Progressive Third Parties in the United States (Routledge, 2016). Consistent with the above interests, for over a decade Dr. Martin was an advisor to the Human Rights Action Committee, a prominent social justice club at FSU. Additionally, he has given many media interviews and made numerous public presentations about the politics of third parties. He also has advised a variety of pertinent political organizations and campaigns at the local, state and national level.
