Brooke Harrington

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Elisabeth Brooke Harrington
Born1968 (age 56–57)
Occupationprofessor of economic sociology
Academic work
Notable worksCapital 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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Early life

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]

Career

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]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Book Review: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Brooke Harrington". LSE Review of Books . London School of Economics. March 1, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
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  3. ↑ "Harrington, Brooke 1968-". worldcat.org. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Brooke Harrington". sociology.dartmouth.edu. Dept. of Sociology, Dartmouth College. November 30, 2019. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Harrington, Brooke (December 3, 2019). "I Almost Lost My Career Because I Had the Wrong Passport". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2019. ...the populist Danish People's Party formed a bloc in Parliament in the early 2000s and influenced a shift in the laws of a country ... The party didn't want to just eliminate immigration; it sought to return Denmark to an imaginary past of racial and ethnic 'purity.'...
  6. ↑ "Brooke Harrington". Faculty Directory. Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  7. ↑ Healy, Kieran (July 2009). "Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism . By Brooke Harrington. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 256. $32.95". American Journal of Sociology . 115 (1): 309–312. doi:10.1086/605757 . Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Shelf Life". STANFORD magazine. July–August 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating". Stanford Center on Longevity. September 21, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  10. ↑ Harrington, Brooke (October 19, 2018). "The bad behavior of the richest: what I learned from wealth managers". The Guardian . Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ Harrington, Brooke (October 8, 2021). "Opinion: When Reputation Matters, Leaks Like the Pandora Papers Can Be Very Effective". The New York Times. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
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