INTERESTS

COURSES

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

EDITORIAL

MEMBERSHIP

PROFESSIONAL

SERVICE

CURRICULUM VITAE


Frank Dobbin

PERSONAL

Married to Michèle Lamont

EDUCATION

1987 Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University.
1980 B.A. (honors), Sociology, Oberlin College.

EMPLOYMENT

2003- . Professor. Harvard University
2000-2002. Professor. Princeton University.
1995-2000. Associate Professor. Princeton University.
1988-1995. Assistant Professor. Princeton University.
1987-1988. Assistant Professor. Indiana University.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Complex Organizations
• Stratification
• Economic Sociology
• Public Policy
• Comparative Historical Sociology

RECENT COURSES

• Sociology 503: Techniques and Methods of Social Science
• Sociology 510b: Mini-Seminar in Social Stratification
• Sociology 308: Sociological Research Design
• Sociology 25: Sociology of Organizations
• Freshman Seminar 46w: Affirmative Action at Work
• Sociology 243: Graduate Seminar in Economic Sociology
• Sociology 224: Organizational Analysis

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• National Science Foundation Grant. "Equal Opportunity Innovations at Work: Mechanisms for Reducing Job Segregation." NSF Innovation and Organizational Change, Sociology and Law and Social Science Programs. 2006-2008. $367,000.
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow, Cambridge, MA. 2006-2007.
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. 2006-2007.
• Russell Sage Foundation Grant. " Diversity Programs at Work: Corporate Activities and Workforce Composition." 2002-2004. $107,000.
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, 2002-2003.
• National Science Foundation Grant. "Affirmative Action at Work: Corporate Compliance Activities and Workforce Composition." NSF Sociology and Law and Social Science Programs. 2001-2004. $175,000.
• Russell Sage Foundation Grant. "The New Economic Sociology: Two Conferences to Take Stock of the Field." 2001-2002. $35,000.
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research for "Civil Rights Law at Work" with Erin Kelly. (Boston College Center for Work and Family/Purdue University Center for Families). 2000.
• Mary Parker Follett Award for "Civil Rights Law at Work" with Erin Kelly. (American Political Science Association, Politics and History Section). 2000.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. "Employment Law and Corporate Work-Family Practices." 1999-2001. $106,000.
• Russell Sage Foundation Resident Scholar, fall 1998.
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award SBR-9811431. Jason Kaufman (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). "Civic Associationalism and Municipal Social Spending in the Late Nineteenth Century French, English, and American Cities." 1998-9. $7500.
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. "The Evolution of Corporate Work-Family Policies in the United States." 1997-8. $30,000.
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award SBR-9701512. Erin Kelly (Ph.D. Candidate) and Frank Dobbin (Advisor). Work/Family Policies in American Organizations. 1997-8. $7500.
• Max Weber Award for Forging Industrial Policy (American Sociological Association: Organizations, Occupations and Work Section). 1996.
• National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9631604. From the Rights Revolution to Reengineering: The Construction of Corporate Departments. 1996-1999. $129,000.
• Fellow, Danish Social Research Council and Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Organization, fall 1994.
• Fellow, Institut International de Paris, La Difense, January 1994.
• National Science Foundation Grant SES-9011005. Environmental Effects on Railway Foundings, Failures, and Firm Structure. 1990-1994. $35,000
• Boeing Corporation Fund, Center of International Studies. "Transport Policy in the European Community," 1992. $1,000
• Princeton University Committee on Research Grants. 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University. Colloquium series fund. "Culture and Public Institutions," 1989-90. $9,000
• University Research Fellowship. Indiana University, 1987-88.
• Co-investigator. National Science Foundation Grant SES-8511250. "Legalization in Organizations: The Expanding Formalization of the Employment Relation." With J. Meyer, W.R. Scott, and J. Sutton, 1985-88. $150,000
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant SES-8506141. "Industrial Policy in Britain, France, and the United States," F. Dobbin (Ph.D. Candidate) and J.W. Meyer (Advisor). 1985-1986. $5,000
• National Research Award. NIMH Organizational Research Fellowship, 1983-1985.
• Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. Distinction. Stanford University, 1983.
• Honors Research Grant. Oberlin College. "New Religious Cults in America," 1980.

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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• 2009. F. Dobbin.  Inventing Equal Opportunity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  
  
  
  
  
• 2008. B. Simmons, F. Dobbin, G. Garrett, editors. The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy. New York : Cambridge University Press.
  
  
  
  
  
• 2004. F. Dobbin, editor. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• 2004. F. Dobbin, editor. The Sociology of the Economy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  
  
• Chinese Edition, 2008, published by the Shanghai People's Press
  
  
  

  First Chapter of The Sociology of the Economy
  

  See Review by Damon Phillips in
  Administrative Science Quarterly.
  
  See Review by Nina Bandelj in
  Contemporary Sociology
  

• 2000. J. Baum and F. Dobbin, editors. Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management. Greenwich, CT: JAI.
  On Amazon.com.
  
  

  See Review by Gordon Walker in
  Administrative Science Quarterly.
  

• 1994. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  
  
• 2005. Excerpted in Western Economic Sociology: A Reader of Modern Classics. In Russian.  Edited by Vadim Radaev, Translated by M Dobryakova. Moscow.
  
  
• Chinese Edition, 2008, published by the Shanghai People's Press
  
  
  

ARTICLES

• 2007. F. Dobbin, A. Kalev, B. Kelly. "Diversity Management in Corporate America" Contexts. 6(4): 21-28.
  
  
• 2007. F. Dobbin, B. Simmons, G. Garrett. "The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning?" Annual Review of Sociology. 33: 449-72.
  
  
• 2007. F. Dobbin and A. Kalev. "The Architecture of Inclusion: Evidence from Corporate Diversity Programs" Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. 30(2): 279-301.
  
  
• 2007. F. Dobbin and E. Kelly. "How to Stop Harassment: The Professional Construction of Legal Compliance in Organizations." American Journal of Sociology. 112(4): 1203-43.
  
  
• 2006.. D. Zorn, F. Dobbin, J. Dierkes, M. Kwok. "The New New Firm: Power and Sense-making in the Construction of Shareholder Value." Nordiske Organisationsstudier, 3.
  
  
• 2006. B. Simmons, F. Dobbin, and G. Garrett. The International Diffusion of Liberalism. International Organization. 60(Fall): 781-810.
  
  
• 2006. A. Kalev and F. Dobbin. "Enforcement of Civil Rights Law in Private Workplaces: The Effects of Compliance Reviews and Lawsuits Over Time." Law and Social Inquiry. 31: 855-879.
  
  
• 2006. Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin, and Erin Kelly. "Best Practices or Best Guesses? Diversity Management and the Remediation of Inequality." American Sociological Review. 71: 589-917.
  
  
• 2006. Enron: Une Drole d'ethique Financiere. Sciences Humaines. 2: 50-53.
  
  
• 2005. F. Dobbin and D. Zorn. "Corporate Malfeasance and the Myth of Shareholder Value." Political Power and Social Theory. 17: 179-198.
  
  
  Responses:
  • R. Swedberg. "On the Importance of Analyzing Economic Scandals and Contemporary Economic Institutions: A Comment on Dobbin and Zorn." 199-206.
  • E. S. Clemens. "The Power of Ideas? The Possibility of a Myth of Shareholder Value." 207-212.
  • M. Mizruchi and H. Kimeldorf. "The Historical Context of Shareholder Value Capitalism." 213-222.
  • N. Fligstein. "The End of (Shareholder Value) Ideology?" 223-228.
  • F. Dobbin and D. Zorn. "The Promise of Economic Sociology." 229-233.
  
  
• 2004. F. Dobbin. "How Institutions Create Ideas: Notions of Public and Private Efficiency from Early French and American Railroading."L'Année de la Régulation. 8: 15-50.
  
  
• 2002. F. Dobbin. "Do the Social Sciences Shape Corporate Anti-Discrimination Practice?: State Permeability and Disciplinary Influence in the United States and France." Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. 23(3): 829-863.
  
  
• 2000. F. Dobbin and T. Dowd. "The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922." American Sociological Review 65: 635-657.
  
  
• 1999. E. Kelly and F. Dobbin. "Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies." American Journal of Sociology 105: 455-492.
  
  
• 1999. "A Market is a Market is a Market?: Institutional Conditions for the Construction of Market Mechanisms." BISS Public (Berlin). 27: 53-72.
  
  
• 1999. F. Dobbin and T. Boychuk. "National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Autonomy is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the U.S., Canada, and Australia." Organization Studies 20: 257-291.
  
  
• 1998. F. Dobbin and J. Sutton. "The Strength of a Weak State: The Employment Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions." American Journal of Sociology. 104: 441-476.
  
  Reprinted: The Legal Lives of Private Organizations, Edited by Lauren Edelman and Mark Suchman, Ashgate, 2007.
  
  
• 1998. E. Kelly and F. Dobbin. "How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management:Employer Response to Antidiscrimination Law, 1961-1996." American Behavioral Scientist 41: 960-984.
  
  Revised version published in Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration and Civil Rights Options for America. Pp. 87-117. Edited by John Skrentny. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001.
  
  
• 1997. F. Dobbin and T. Dowd. "How Policy Shapes Competition: Early Railroad Foundings in Massachusetts." Administrative Science Quarterly. 42: 501-529.
  
  
• 1996. J. Sutton and F. Dobbin. "The Two Faces of Governance: Responses to Legal Uncertainty in American Firms, 1955-1985." American Sociological Review. 61: 794-811.
  
  
• 1994. J. Sutton, F. Dobbin, J. Meyer, and W.R. Scott. "The Legalization of the Workplace." American Journal of Sociology. 99: 944-971.
  
  
• 1993. F. Dobbin, J. Sutton, J. Meyer, and W.R. Scott. "Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets." American Journal of Sociology. 99: 396-427.
  
  Reprinted: Pp. 272-300 in Institutional Environments and Organizations. Edited by W.R. Scott and J.W. Meyer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1994.
  
  Reprinted (in Chinese): Pp. 201-227 in The New Institutionalism in Organizational Sociology. Edited by Xueguang Zhou.
  
  
• 1993. "The Social Construction of the Great Depression: Industrial Policy During the 1930s in the United States, Britain, and France." Theory and Society. 22: 1-56.
  
  
• 1992. "The Origins of Private Social Insurance: Public Policy and Fringe Benefits in America, 1920-1950." American Journal of Sociology. 97: 1416-1450.
  
  
• 1988. J. Baron, P.D. Jennings, and F. Dobbin. "Mission Control?: The Development of Personnel Systems in U.S. Industry." American Sociological Review. 53: 497-514.
  
  
• 1986. J. Baron, F. Dobbin, and P.D. Jennings. "War and Peace: The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry." American Journal of Sociology. 92: 350-383.
  
  Response to comment:
  1988. J. Baron, F. Dobbin, and P.D. Jennings. "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day: Reply to Denk." American Journal of Sociology. 93: 1231-1234.
  
  

GUEST EDITED JOURNALS

• 2006. B. Simmons, F. Dobbin, and G. Garrett. Edited Symposium on Global Diffusion of Public Policies. International Organization. 60 (Fall).
  
  
• 2006. J.S. Pedersen, A. Westenholz, and F.Dobbin, editors. Institutions in the Making: Identity, Power, and the Emergence of New Organizational Forms. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist. 49(7).
  
  
  • A. Westenholz, J.S. Pedersen, and F. Dobbin. "Introduction." 889-896.
    
    
  • J.S. Pedersen and F. Dobbin. "In Search of Identity and Legitimation: Organizational Culture and Neoinstitutionalism." 897-907.
  
  
  
• 1997. S. Christensen, P. Karnoe, J.S. Pedersen, F. Dobbin, editors. Actors and Institutions. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist. 40(4).
  
  
  • S. Christensen, P. Karnoe, J.S. Pedersen, F. Dobbin. "Introduction." 392-396.
    
    
  • T. Dowd and F. Dobbin. "The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law: Policy Change and Railroader Response in Early America." 478-489.
    
    
  • J. Pedersen and F. Dobbin. 1997. "The Social Invention of Collective Actors: On the Rise of the Corporation." 431-443.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• 2009. "How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology." Pp. 200-222 in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations. Edited by Paul S. Adler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  
  
• 2007. "Economic Sociology." Pp. 319-331 in Twenty-First Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook. Edited by Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  
  
• 2005. "Comparative and Historical Perspectives in Economic Sociology." Pp. 26-48 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition. Edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation.
  
  
• 2004. D. Zorn, F. Dobbin, J. Dierkes, and M. Kwok. "Managing Investors: How Financial Markets Reshaped the American Firm." Pp. 269-289 in The Sociology of Financial Markets. Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alexandru Preda. London: Oxford University Press.
  
  
• 2002. "Is America Becoming More Exceptional?: How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship." Pp. 51-77 in Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change. Edited by Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  
  
• 2001. "Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States." In The Sociology of Economic Life, Second Edition. Edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview.
  
  
• 2001 T. Dowd and F. Dobbin. "Origins of the Myth of Neoliberalism: Regulation in the First Century of U.S. Railroading." Pp. 61-88 in The State, Regulation and the Economy: An Historical Perspective. Edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  
  
• 2001 "The Business of Social Movements." Pp. 74-82 in Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. Edited by James Jasper, Jeffrey Goodwin, and Francesca Polletta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  
  
• 2001 "Rail and Transport Policy: National Paradigms and Supranational Structures." Pp. 63-85 in Making Policy in Europe, Second Edition. Edited by Kjell Eliassen and Svein Andersen. London: Sage.
  
  
• 1996 F. Dobbin and T. Boychuk. "Public Policy and the Rise of Private Pensions: The U.S. Experience Since 1930." Pp. 104-135 in The Privatization of Social Policy? Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America, Scandinavia and Japan. Edited by Michael Shalev. New York: Macmillan.
  
  
• 1995 "The Origins of Economic Laws: Railway Entrepreneurs and Public Policy in Nineteenth-century America." Pp. 277-301 in The Institutional Construction of Organization: International and Longitudinal Studies. Edited by W. Richard Scott and Soren Christensen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  
  
• 1995 "Railroads." Pp. 59-86 in Organizations in Industry: Strategy, Structure, and Selection. Edited by Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan. New York: Oxford University Press.
  
  
• 1994 "Understanding Industrial Policy Choices: A Constructionist Approach." Pp. 351-379 in Research on Democracy and Society: Political Culture and Political Structure. Edited by Frederick Weil. Greenwich, CT: JAI.
  
  
• 1994 "Cultural Models of Organization: The Social Construction of Rational Organizing Principles." Pp. 117-141 in The Sociology of Culture: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives. Edited by Diana Crane. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  
  
• 1993 "What do Markets have in Common? Toward a Fast Train Policy in the European Community." Pp. 69-91 in Making Policy in Europe: The Europeification of National Policy-making. Edited by Kjell Eliassen and Svein Andersen. London: Sage.
  
  
• 1993 "Public Policy and the Development of High Speed Trains in France and the United States." Pp. 124-144 in High Speed Trains. Edited by John Whitelegg, Staffan Hultin, and Torbjorn Flink. London: Leading Edge.
  
  
• 1992 "Metaphors for Industrial Rationality: The Social Construction of Electronics Policy in the United States and France." Pp. 185-206 in Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure. Edited by Robert Wuthnow. London: Routledge.
  
  
• 1992 P. D. Jennings, F. Dobbin, and J. Baron. "Making War and Peace." Pp. 179-193 in Doing Exemplary Research. Edited by Peter J. Frost and Ralph Stablein. Beverly Hills: Sage.
  
  
• 1988 F. Dobbin, L. Edelman, J. Meyer, W. R. Scott, and A. Swidler. "The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations." Pp. 71-100 in Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment. Edited by Lynne G. Zucker. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
  
  

BOOK REVIEWS

• Jerome Karabel.  The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.  Administrative Science Quarterly Dec 2006 51(4) 652-655.
• Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. American Journal of Sociology 112. 2006. 625-627.
• "Sexual Harassment: The Global and the Local." Review Essay on Abigail Saguy: Sexual Harassment and Globalization; and Kathrin Zippel: The Politics of Sexual Harassment. Sociological Forum (2006) Forthcoming.
  
• Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin. Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation. American Journal of Sociology 111(1) (2005) 931-933.
  
• "Is Globalization Making Us All the Same?" Review Essay on Sanford Jacoby: The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. British Journal of Industrial Relations 43 (2005) 569-576.
  
• Charles Perrow. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Theory and Society 33(1) (2004) 117-122.
  
• Arthur Stinchcombe. When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations. American Journal of Sociology 109(5) (2004) 1244-1246.
  
• Neil Fligstein. "The Architecture of Markets." Contexts 1 (2002) 64-65.
  
• Philippe D'Iribarne, Alain Henry, Jean-Pierre Segal, Sylvie Chevrier, and Tatjana Globokar. Cultures et mondialisation: gérer par-delà les frontières. Sociologie du Travail 43 (2001) 559-561.
  
• James G. March, Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. The Dynamics of Rules: Change in Written Organizational Codes. Contemporary Sociology 30 (2001) 479-480.
  
• Howard Aldrich. Organizations Evolving. Social Forces 79 (2001) 1521-23.
  
• Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America, and Verne E. Hauck Arbitrating Sex Discrimination Grievances. Work and Occupations 28 (2001) 270-273.
  
• Edwin Amenta. Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy. Sociological Forum 15 (2000) 173-175.
  
• Wendy Nelson Espeland. The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest. American Journal of Sociology 105 (1999) 237-238
  
• Albert Schram. Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century. The Economic History Review 52 (1999) 181-182.
  
• John F. Mahon and Richard A. McGowan. Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment. Administrative Science Quarterly 44 (1999) 195-197.
  
• Erhard Friedberg. Local Orders: The Dynamics of Organized Action. Contemporary Sociology 27 (1998) 600-601.
  
• William Roy. Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America. Contemporary Sociology 27 (1998) 61-62.
  
• William P. Bridges and Wayne J. Villemez. The Employment Relationship: Causes and Consequences of Modern Personnel Administration. Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (1996) 321-323.
  
• Hilton L. Root. The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England. Contemporary Sociology 25 (1996) 212-213.
  
• Mauro F. Guilléen. Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. American Journal of Sociology 101 (1995) 244-246.
  
• Lenard R. Berlanstein. Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France. Contemporary Sociology 22 (1993) 861-2.
  
• Otis L. Graham, Jr. Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate. Contemporary Sociology 22 (1993) 250-251.
  
• John L. Campbell, J.R. Hollingsworth, and L.N. Lindberg (eds.). Governance of the American Economy. Contemporary Sociology 21 (1992) 513-514.
  
• Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky. Cultural Theory. Social Forces 70 (1991) 549-551.
  
• J.M. Barbalet. Citizenship. Zygmunt Bauman. Freedom. Bryan S. Turner. Status. The Journal of Religion 71 (1991) 121-123.

OTHER

• Contexts Debate: "What's Wrong with the American Corporation?" Fall, 2007.
• "The Future of Economic Sociology." Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology (ASA Economic Sociology Section). 2 (2001) 4-5.
• "How Institutional Economics is Killing Micro-economics." Monthly editorial for American Sociological Association's Economic Sociology Listserve. April, 2001.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Former Students

• Alexandra Kalev. University of Arizona.
• Bell Kwok
• Dirk Zorn
• Terry Boychuk. Macalester College.
• Stephen Chiu. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Julian Dierkes. University of British Columbia.
• Timothy Dowd. Emory University.
• Bai Gao. Duke University.
• Jason Kaufman. Harvard University.
• Erin Kelly. University of Minnesota.
• Hiromi Taniguchi. University of Louisville.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

• Editorial Board, Rose Monograph Series. 2002-2005
• Editorial Board, Strategic Organization. 2001-
• Editorial Board, American Sociological Review. 2000-
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology. 1999-
• Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly. 1997-2002.
• Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 1995-.

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Sociological Association
• Academy of Management
• American Political Science Association
• Social Science History Association
• Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
• Sociological Research Association
• Macro-Organizational Behavior Society

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Council, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2004-2007.
• Chair, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association. 2003.
• Panelist, NSF Advance Program (Institutional Transformation Grants for women in science and engineering). 2001.
• Council, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association. 2000-2003.
• Panelist, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Canon Science Scholars Program. 2000.
• Council, Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association. 1998-2001.
• ASA Weber Award Committee for the best book in organizations and occupations, 1994.
• ASA Prize Committee for the best publication in comparative historical sociology, 1990.

SERVICE

• Harvard University Press Board of Syndics. 2005-
• Harvard Advisory Committee on Faculty Development and Diversity. 2005-
• Princeton Committee on Faculty Conference and Appeal. 2001-2004.
• Organizer, Princeton Annual Economic Sociology Conference. 2001, 2002.
• Princeton Sociology Departmental Representative (Director of Undergraduate Studies). 1995-1998.
• Princeton Committee on Undergraduate Life. 1993-4.
• Wilson College (of Princeton University) Academic Advisor. 1989-1992.

Department of Sociology Harvard University William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-3812 Facsimile: (617) 496-5794 Email: frank_dobbin@harvard.edu