Gary T. Marx (born 1938) is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and retired from the University of Colorado in 1996.
He has worked in the areas of race and ethnicity, collective behavior and social movements, law and society and surveillance studies.
Marx was born on a farm in central California, raised in Los Angeles from the age of two, and attended John Marshall High School.
[1] He has degrees from UCLA (1960) and University of California at Berkeley (PhD in sociology, 1966: Protest and Prejudice: The Climate of Opinion in the Negro American Community).
[9] His work has appeared or been reprinted in over 300 books, monographs and periodicals and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Czech, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Dutch, German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese, Persian, Macedonian, Slovak, Swedish, Belarusian; and other languages.