The Internal Board serves as the governance committee to which the Center reports on an annual basis. The committee has the authority to review and advise the Center on its budget, calendar of events, and progress in general.

Senior scholars from sociology, economics, management, organizations, and the broader social sciences who are advancing the study of Economy & Society.

Junior scholars from sociology, economics, management, organizations, and the broader social sciences who are making contributions to the study of Economy & Society.

CSES Faculty Affiliates play an important role at the Cornell University and bring to CSES diverse research and teaching interests related to economy and society research.

The External Board consists of scholars who have all made important contributions to economic sociology. Their diversity illustrates an important principle of the Center: input from economics as well as sociology is necessary to drive economic sociology forward.

Victor Nee

Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor & Founding Director of CSES

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
theory;
market transitions from state socialism;
comparative institutional analysis;
immigration and ethnic/racial inequality

Richard Swedberg

Professor Emeritus

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
law and economy;
sociological theory;
classical sociological theories;
Schumpeter and Weber

Michael Macy

Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Collective action;
social control;
self-organizing group dynamics;
cognitive game theory;
social exchange theory;
computer simulation;
laboratory experiments

Douglas Heckathorn

Professor Emeritus

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Formal theory;
economic sociology;
AIDS prevention research;
collective action;
social psychology;
quantitative methods

Howard Aldrich

Kenan Professor and Department Chair

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Entrepreneurship;
evolutionary social science;
organizations, occupations, and work;
economic sociology;
inequality

Delia Baldassarri

Professor of Sociology

New York University

Economic sociology;
political sociology;
social networks;
analytical sociology

Kaushik Basu

C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

Cornell University

Economic development;
economic theory;
industrial organization;
political economy

Mabel Berezin

Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Comparative and historical sociology;
culture;
political institutions and ideologies;
theory;
qualitative methods;
economy and society

Matthew Bothner

Professor of Management

European School of Management and Technology

Social status and market competition, particularly in venture capital and among U.S. colleges and universities;
status-based cumulative advantage;
social network methods;
competitive crowding and risk-taking in tournaments

Mary C. Brinton

Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Harvard University

Gender inequality;
labor markets and employment;
contemporary Japan;
social demography

Diane Burton

Professor

ILR Studies

Cornell University

Organizations;
labor markets;
entrepreneurship

Benjamin Cornwell

Professor and Chair

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Social networks among individuals and organizations

Daniel DellaPosta

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Pennsylvania State University

Social networks;
economic sociology;
political sociology;
computational methods

Paul DiMaggio

Professor of Sociology

Sociology

New York University

Culture;
social structure;
media and inequality;
organizations

Lucas Drouhot

Postdoctoral Fellow

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

International migration;
social networks;
social stratification

Neil Fligstein

Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor

University of California at Berkeley

Economic sociology;
organizations;
methodology and statistics;
political sociology

Robert Frank

Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management & Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

Cornell University

Applied economics

Eli Friedman

Associate Professor

International and Comparative Labor

Cornell University

Education (organizations and systems);
comparative labor movements;
labor relations;
global economy

Francis Fukuyama

Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow

Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University

Development and international politics

Filiz Garip

Professor & Former Director of CSES

Department of Sociology

Princeton University

Sociology;
migration;
economic sociology;
inequality;
social networks

Mark Granovetter

Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences

Stanford University

Economic sociology;
industrial organization

Russell Hardin

Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences

New York University (1941-2017)

Rational choice;
collective action;
morality behind the law;
moral and political philosophy

Hilary Holbrow

Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society

East Asian Languages and Cultures Department

Indiana University, Bloomington

Japanese society;
work and organizations;
gender;
race and ethnicity;
immigration

Håkan Holm

Professor of Economics

School of Economics and Management

Lund University

Competition;
complexity;
decision-making;
game theory;
microeconomics;
welfare economics

Paul Ingram

Professor of Business and Faculty Director

Columbia Business School

Intergovernmental organizations on foreign direct investment and democratization;
the structure and efficacy of managers' professional networks in China and the United States;
the effects of networks and institutions on the evolution of the Glasgow shipbuilding industry