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DIRECTOR
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Victor Nee
Sociology
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Economic sociology; theory; market transitions from state socialism; comparative institutional analysis; immigration and ethnic/racial inequality
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
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Douglas Heckathorn
Sociology
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Formal theory; economic sociology; AIDS prevention research; collective action; social psychology; quantitative methods
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Michael Macy
Sociology
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Collective action; social control in groups and organizations; self-organizing group dynamics; cognitive game theory; social exchange theory; methods: computer simulation, laboratory experiments
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Richard Swedberg
Sociology
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Economic sociology; law and economy; sociological theory; classical sociological theories; Schumpeter and Weber
AFFILIATED FACULTY
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Kaushik Basu
Economics
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Economic development; economic theory; industrial organization; political economy
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Mabel Berezin
Sociology
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Comparative and historical sociology; culture; political institutions and ideologies; theory; qualitative methods; economy and society
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Shelley Correll
Sociology
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Gender inequality, social psychology, group processes, sociology of education
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Robert Frank
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Economics
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Applied economics
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Robert Hockett
Law School
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organizational and financial law and economics, economic globalization, and distributive justice
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Michael Jones-Correa
Government
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Immigration; race and ethnic politics; urban politics; political participation
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Ravi Kanbur
Applied Economics and Management, Economics
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Public economics and development economics; conceptual, empirical, and policy analysis; bridging the worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy making; recent publications address risk taking, inequality, poverty, structural adjustment, debt, agriculture, and political economy.
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Peter Katzenstein
Government
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Security policy and political economy; relation between international and domestic politics; Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia
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Edward J. Lawler
ILR Organizational Behavior, Sociology
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Group processes; social psychology; organizations; social exchange; negotiations
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Elizabeth Mannix
Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Social and organizational psychology; team interaction and performance; negotiation and conflict; power and coalitions; temporal issues
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Hirokazu Miyazaki
Department of Anthropology
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Anthropology of knowledge, hope, utopia and anti-utopia, evidential practices, ethnography and historical method, anthropology and philosophy, anthropology of capitalism, social studies of finance, anthropology of religion; Christianity, gift and exchange, material culture, popular culture, Fiji, Japan
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Annelise Riles
Law School and Anthropology
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Transnational dimensions of legal theories and institutions
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David Strang
Sociology
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Political sociology; organizations; models and methods for dynamic processes
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Steven Strogatz
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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Applied mathematics; interdisciplinary work in nonlinear science and complex systems
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Sidney Tarrow
Government and Sociology
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Comparative Politics: Western Europe, Social Movements, Political Parties and Collective Action, Political Sociology
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Pamela Tolbert
ILR Organizational Behavior
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Processes of organizational change; role of organizations in social stratification; impact of occupations on organizational structures; work and family; diversity and inequality discrimination; sexual harassment
STAFF
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Danielle Adams
Assistant to the Director
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