Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity. It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology,anthropology,psychology,economics,etc. It is about creating something by thinking across boundaries. It is related to an interdiscipline or an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought,as new needs and professions emerge. Large engineering teams are usually interdisciplinary,as a power station or mobile phone or other project requires the melding of several specialties. However,the term "interdisciplinary" is sometimes confined to academic settings.
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.
John Patrick "Pat" Crecine was an American educator and economist who served as President of Georgia Tech,Dean at Carnegie Mellon University,business executive,and professor. After receiving his early education at public schools in Lansing,Michigan,he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management,and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He also spent a year at the Stanford University School of Business.
The University of Michigan–Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) is a public university in Dearborn,Michigan. Founded in 1959 with a gift from the Ford Motor Company,it was initially known as the Dearborn Center,operating as a remote branch of the University of Michigan. The branch gradually developed into a fully-fledged university over the years. Upon receiving its own accreditation in 1970,the university changed its name to the University of Michigan–Dearborn,while still adhering to the policies of the University of Michigan Board of Regents.
Timothy DeCamp Wilson is an American social psychologist and writer.
Horace Orlando PattersonOM is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica,as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Thomas J. Sugrue is an American historian of the 20th-century United States currently serving as a professor at New York University. From 1991 to 2015,he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum. His areas of expertise include American urban history,American political history,housing and the history of race relations. He has published extensively on the history of liberalism and conservatism,on housing and real estate,on poverty and public policy,on civil rights,and on the history of affirmative action.
Louis André(Loet) Leydesdorff was a Dutch sociologist,cyberneticist,communication scientist and Professor in the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Technological Innovation at the University of Amsterdam. He is known for his work in the sociology of communication and innovation,especially for his Triple helix model of innovation developed with Henry Etzkowitz in the 1990s.
Stephan Thernstrom is an American academic and historian who is the Winthrop Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a specialist in ethnic and social history and was the editor of the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. He and his wife Abigail Thernstrom are prominent opponents of affirmative action in education and according to the New York Times, they "lead the conservative charge against racial preference in America."
For the English former footballer,see Wayne Baker (footballer). For the American former NFL player,see Wayne Baker.
W. Russell Neuman is Professor of Media Technology,NYU Steinhardt School of Culture,Education,and Human Development and Professor (Emeritus),Communication Studies,University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2013,Dr. Neuman was the John Derby Evans Professor of Media Technology at the University of Michigan. Neuman received a Ph.D. And M.A. At the University of California,Berkeley Department of Sociology as well as a B.A. from Cornell University's Department of Government. He has an extensive teaching and research career at Yale University,Harvard University,University of Pennsylvania,and the University of Michigan. He is one of the founding faculty members at MIT Media Lab and with Ithiel de Sola Pool,MIT's Research Program on Communication Policy. From 2001-2003 he served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy working in the areas of information technology,broadband policy as well as biometrics and international security.
Richard Paul Taub was an American sociologist noted for his research on urban,rural,and community economic development. He was a faculty member of the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology and Department of Comparative Human Development and was also the Paul Klapper Professor in the Social Sciences.
Ilia State University ISU was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institutions with long and varied histories. Currently ISU is one of the leading research and educational institutions in Georgia.
Yu Xie is a Chinese-American sociologist and a sociology professor at Princeton University. He joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 1989 and served as a professor from 1996 to 2015.
Edward Otto Laumann is an American sociologist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Laumann earned his Ph.D. in the Harvard Department of Social Relations in 1964,where he worked with George Homans,Talcott Parsons,and Harrison White. He served as Dean of the social sciences and Provost at Chicago. He is best known for his work on social stratification,urban sociology,organizational sociology,health and aging,and is widely recognized as a pioneer in the areas of social network analysis and the sociology of sexuality. In 2013,he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Peter Henry Rossi was a prominent sociologist best known for his research on the origin of homelessness,and documenting the changing face of American homelessness in the 1980s. Rossi was also known for his work devising ways to evaluate federally funded initiatives in education,health services,crime control,and housing. He influentially applied his sociological expertise to affect related policy-making and funding agencies. At his death,he was the Stuart A. Rice professor emeritus of Sociology and the director emeritus of the Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Steven Neil Durlauf is an American social scientist and economist. He is currently Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the inaugural Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Durlauf was previously the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As of 2021,is also a Part Time Professor at the New Economic School.
Julie Battilana is a scholar,educator,and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University. She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is a public policy scholar and dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy of the University of Michigan.
Walter Korpi is a Swedish sociologist.
