Richard Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Illinois State University. He is the author of Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype; Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual; The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline; Technology As Magic; and The Illusion of Freedom and Equality. He gave three lectures based on three of his books to the European Commission in 2006.
A Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and American Stereotype (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1976)
Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982)
The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994)
Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational (New York: Continuum, 1999)
Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype (revised edition, New York: Continuum, 2000)
Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society (Lantham: Roman and Littlefield, 2004)
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008)
The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020)
Religion in America Today, with J.M. Van der Laan (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2021)