The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology
Edited by Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman
Author Information
Peter Hedström is a Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. His area of specialization is analytical sociology. He has a special interest in the analysis of complex social networks, particularly analyses seeking to explain how the structure of the networks in which individuals are embedded influence the collective outcomes the individuals bring about.
Peter Bearman is Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic.
Contributors:
Delia Baldassarri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.
Karen Barkey is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Peter Bearman is Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Michael Biggs is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
Iris Bohnet is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich, and she has taught at Harvard, Oxford, the Reykjavik University, the University of Zurich, and the IMD, Lausanne.
Richard Breen is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge.
Elizabeth Bruch is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, and a faculty member at the Population Studies Center.
Hannah Brückner is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ivan Chase is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
Karen Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford, where she also received her Ph.D. in Sociology.
Peter Dodds is Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont, and a visiting faculty fellow at the Vermont Advanced Computing Center.
Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University and Professor at Collège de France.
Scott Feld is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the John Hopkins University and has held faculty positions at SUNY Stony and Louisiana State University.
Andreas Flache is a staff member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Method and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen, where he received his PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Christine Fountain is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina and a visiting associate research scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.
Jeremy Freese is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Northwestern University.
Diego Gambetta is Official Fellow of Nuffield College and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford.
Alexandra Gerbasi is an Assistant Professor at California State University at Northridge. She received her PhD in sociology at Stanford University.
Daniel Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Marketing at London Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and previously he has been at Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford universities and at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
Bernard Grofman is Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine.
Peter Hedström is Professor of Sociology, Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Stathis Kalyvas is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale, where he directs the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence.
W. Brent Lindquist is Deputy Provost and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Freda B. Lynn received her PhD in Sociology from Harvard University in 2006 and is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Iowa.
Michael Macy is Goldwin-Smith Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
Robert Mare is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and is Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford.
James Moody is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University, where he recently moved after teaching for seven years at Ohio State University.
Trond Petersen holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at Berkeley.
Joel Podolny is the Dean of the Yale School of Management. He has also served as Professor at the Harvard Business School, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Meredith Rolfe is a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Jens Rydgren is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University and is associated with the Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies.
Matthew Salganik is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University.
Katherine Stovel is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Lars Udehn is Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Uppsala University.
Diane Vaughan is a Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Ohio State.
Duncan Watts is Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics Group.
Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where he also received his Ph.D.