William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist,a professor at Harvard University,and an author of works on urban sociology,race,and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science,he served as the 80th President of the American Sociological Association,was a member of numerous national boards and commissions. He identified the importance of neighborhood effects and demonstrated how limited employment opportunities and weakened institutional resources exacerbated poverty within American inner-city neighborhoods.
American nationalism is a form of civic,ethnic,cultural or economic influences found in the United States. Essentially,it indicates the aspects that characterize and distinguish the United States as an autonomous political community. The term often explains efforts to reinforce its national identity and self-determination within its national and international affairs.
Dalton Clark Conley is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books,including a memoir and a sociology textbook.
Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer is an Argentinian sociologist and the Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is an economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to the economy. A constant theme in her work is the economic valuation of the sacred,as found in such contexts as life insurance settlements and economic transactions between sexual intimates. In 2006,she was elected to the PEN American Center,and in 2007 she was elected to both the American Academy of Arts &Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Paul Joseph DiMaggio is an American educator,and professor of sociology at New York University since 2015. Previously,he was a professor of sociology at Princeton University.
James Barrett Jacobs was the Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts at New York University School of Law,where he was a faculty member since 1982. He was a specialist in criminal law,criminal procedure,and criminal justice.
Ryan Goodman is an American legal scholar who is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and is the founding co-editor-in-chief of its website Just Security,which focuses on U.S. national security law and policy. Goodman joined the NYU faculty in 2009.
Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and commentator on religious and political violence in India.
Rogers Brubaker is professor of sociology at University of California,Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written academic works on social theory,immigration,citizenship,nationalism,ethnicity,religion,diasporas,gender,populism,and digital hyperconnectivity.
Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator,sociologist,and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business,and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia,Stanford,Harvard,Emory,and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.
Philip Stephen Gorski is an American sociologist,interested in both the sociology of religion and historical sociology.
Patrick Sharkey is an American urban sociologist and criminologist. He has been Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University since 2019. He was formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at New York University,with an affiliation at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University,where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
Bruce Prichart Western is an Australian-born American sociologist and a professor of sociology at Columbia University. In 2023,he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
George Steinmetz is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He has taught at the New School for Social Research,the University of Chicago,and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is a historical sociologist of empires,states,and cities,with a focus on modern Germany,France,and Britain and their colonies. His other main areas of research are social theory and the history and philosophy of the social sciences.
Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity,particularly focusing on the intersection of race,justice and technology. Benjamin is the author of numerous publications,including the books People's Science:Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013),Race After Technology:Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) and Viral Justice:How We Grow the World We Want (2022).
Elizabeth M. "Becky" Pettit is an American sociologist with expertise in demography. She has been a professor of sociology at the University of Texas-Austin,as well as an affiliate at its Population Research Center,since 2014. She is an advocate for decarceration in the United States.
Christopher James Wildeman is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Wildeman is known for researching the effects of incarceration on children's health,homelessness,and racial inequality.
Adia Harvey Wingfield is a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and the 2018 President of Sociologists for Women in Society. She is the author of several books,including No More Invisible Man:Race and Gender in Men's Work,and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems,Gender &Society,and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has lectured internationally on her research.
Deborah Jane Yashar is an American political scientist. She is a Full Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research interests involve politics of children and immigration in the Americas.
