Albert James Bergesen is an American sociologist and Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at University of Arizona.
[2] In 1995, Bergesen was a Fellow at the Udall Center for the Study of Public Policy, and in 2003, he was a Visiting Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
[3] Bergesen's 1980 publication "Official Violence During the Watts, Newark, and Detroit Race Riots of the 1960s"[4] was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize[5] from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Reviewer Carl Flynn contends that "as a collection, these essays make a substantial contribution to the broadening dialogue in academic circles about the interaction between theology and film in modern society.
Bergesen, with colleagues Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, and Edith Kurzweil, is the editor of the anthology Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.