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Victor Nee
Director and Founder
Sociology
Cornell University
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Economic Sociology; Networks and Institutions; Organizations; Mixed Methods
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Richard Swedberg
Associate Director
Sociology
Cornell University
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Economic Sociology; law and economy; sociological theory; classical sociological theories; Schumpeter and Weber
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Michael Macy
Sociology
Cornell University
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Collective action; social control; self-organizing group dynamics; cognitive game theory; social exchange theory; computer simulation, laboratory experiments
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Douglas Heckathorn
Sociology
Cornell University
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Formal theory; economic sociology; AIDS prevention research; collective action; social psychology; quantitative methods
RESEARCH MANAGER
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Todd Arthur Bridges
Research Fellow
Sociology
Cornell University
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Economic Sociology; sociology of finance; sociological theory; sociology of law and economy; mixed methods; meso-level social order; extra-legal governance
EXTERNAL BOARD
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Paul DiMaggio
Sociology
Princeton University
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Neil Fligstein
Sociology
UC Berkeley
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Francis Fukuyama
Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
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Mark Granovetter
Sociology
Stanford University
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James March
Organizational Behavior
Stanford University
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Barnaby Marsh
Vice President
The Templeton Foundation
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Robert K. Merton
Sociology
Columbia University
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Douglass North
Economics
Washington University
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Jeff Sachs
Economics
Columbia University
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Neil Smelser
Sociology
UC Berkeley
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Harrison White
Sociology
Columbia University
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Viviana Zelizer
Sociology
Princeton University
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
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Kaushik Basu
Economics
Cornell University
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Economic development; economic theory; industrial organization; political economy
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Mabel Berezin
Sociology
Cornell University
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Comparative and historical sociology; culture; political institutions and ideologies; theory; qualitative methods; economy and society
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Matthew Brashears
Sociology
Cornell University
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Social network analysis, social psychology, gender, political sociology
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Diane Burton
ILR Studies
Cornell University
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organizations, labor markets, and entrepreneurship
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Benjamin Cornwell
Sociology
Cornell University

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Sociology of health, social network analysis, organizations, sociological theory, economic sociology, social stratification.
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Robert Frank
Economics
Cornell University
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Applied economics
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Robert Hockett
Law School
Cornell University
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organizational and financial law and economics, economic globalization, and distributive justice
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Michael Jones-Correa
Government
Cornell University
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Immigration; race and ethnic politics; urban politics; political participation
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Ravi Kanbur
Economics
Cornell University
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Public economics, development economics; conceptual, empirical, and policy analysis; risk taking, inequality, poverty, structural adjustment, and political economy
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Peter Katzenstein
Government
Cornell University
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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 & Sociology
Cornell University
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Group processes; social psychology; organizations; social exchange; negotiations
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Hirokazu Miyazaki
Anthropology
Cornell University
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Anthropology of knowledge, utopia and anti-utopia, historical method, anthropology of capitalism, social studies of finance, anthropology of religion; gift and exchange
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Stephen L. Morgan
Sociology
Cornell University
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Labor markets, race and ethnicity, sociology of education, quantitative methodology
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Annelise Riles
Law and Anthropology
Cornell University
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Transnational dimensions of legal theories and institutions
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Paromita Sanyal
Sociology
Cornell University
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Economic sociology, gender, poverty and inequality
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David Strang
Sociology
Cornell University
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Political sociology; organizations; models and methods for dynamic processes
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Steven Strogatz
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Cornell University
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Applied mathematics; interdisciplinary work in nonlinear science and complex systems
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Kim Weeden
Sociology
Cornell University
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Social inequality and poverty, labor markets, gender inequality, work and occupations
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