Alexander M. Hicks (born 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a sociologist who principally studies the causes and consequences of social democracy, corporatism, the welfare state and the sociology of culture, literature and film. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Emory University, where he has been since 1986 (as Chair of Sociology 1988‑91, as Full Professor 1993-2017, as Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology 2007-10) following an instructorship and assistant professorship at Northwestern University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the NORC, University of Chicago.[1] Graduate students have included Kali-Ahset Amen (Johns Hopkins University), Desmond King (professor) (Nuffield College, Oxford), Joya Misra (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dan Slater (University