Maurice R. Stein is an American sociologist and innovator in higher education. Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association¿s Community and Urban Sociology Section. Retired from Brandeis University since 2002, Stein is a long-time member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. Larry Miller was a member of the editorial collectives of the New American Movement newspaper and the journal Socialist Revolution/Socialist Review. He has written about a wide range of areas including major theorists and writers such as Marx, Gramsci, Althusser and Machiavelli; the theorization of classless societies; work; memory; postmodernism; and the sociology of tourism.