Elisabeth Brooke Harrington | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
| Occupation | professor of economic sociology |
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| Notable works | Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent [1] |
Elisabeth Brooke Harrington [2] (born 1968 [3] ) is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College. [4]
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In 1990, Harrington earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Stanford University. [2] In 1996, Harrington earned a master's degree in sociology from Harvard University, followed by a PhD degree in sociology there in 1999. [2]
From 1999 to 2007, Harrington was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brown University. [2] From 2006 to 2009, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. [2] She was a professor of economic sociology at the Copenhagen Business School from 2010 to 2018. [2]
In 2017, she faced legal difficulties with the authorities in Denmark about a visa dispute, even though she had been invited to speak as a guest lecturer to the Danish Parliament; the dispute ended eight months later when Denmark changed its laws. [5]
She is an advocate against xenophobia and for the benefits of immigration. [5]
In January 2019, she became a Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. [6]
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