Harvard Department of Sociology

2006-	Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University.
2005-	Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
2004-	Director, European Inequality Network, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government.
2003-	Professor, Department of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
2002-	Fellow and Program Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
2000-2003	Full Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1993-2000	Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1987-1993	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1985-1987	Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin.
1983-1985	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Stanford University.

Visiting Positions

June 2007	Visiting Professor , Universite de Paris 8, Department of Political Science
June 2006	Visiting Professor, Science Po, Paris.
July 2000	Visiting Professor, Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies.
January 1998	Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University.
January 1995	Directeur d'études invité, Institut d'études comparées, Université de Paris IV-Nanterre.
January 1994	Directeur d'études invité, Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Spring 1993	Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Fall 1992	Visiting Scholar, Institute for French Studies, New York University.
Summer 1987	Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Awards, Fellowships and Honorary Positions:

Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2006-2007.
Chair, Council for European Studies, 2006-2009.
Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer, Eastern Sociological Society, 2006.
Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecturer, 2006.
Elected Member, Council of the American Sociological Association, 2005-2008
Member, National Research Council Committee on Assessing Behavioral and Social Science Research on Aging, 2004-2006.
Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2003-2004.
Fellow and project co-director, "Successful Societies" Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2002-2007.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 2002-2003, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (grant no. 29800639).
C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Dignity of Working Men, 2001.
Member of Steering Committee, Council for European Studies, 1996-2001.
The Dignity of Working Men in list of 2000 Noteworthy Books In Industrial Relations and Labor Economics of the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
Mattei Dogan Award for the Best Comparativist Book in 2001 from the Society for Comparative Research for The Dignity of Working Men.
Elected Member, Society for Comparative Research, 1998.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997.
Visiting Scholar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 1997.
Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, Fall 1996.
Elected member, Sociological Research Association, 1996.
Member, Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, 1996-.
Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, 1996-97 (declined).
Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1994-95.
Le Monde Choice List, La morale et l'argent. La cultures des cadres en France et aux Etats-Unis, 1995.
C. Wright Mills Prize Finalist, Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class, 1993.
Fellow, German Marshall Funds of the United States, 1992-1993.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Québec Government, 1982-1984.
Boursier du Gouvernement frangais, 1978-1982.
Ph.D. Fellowship, Québec Government, 1980-1982.

External Grants

“Fostering Successful Interdisciplinarity through Shared Cognitive Platforms.” Canadian Institute for Advanced Research ($250,000), 2007-2009.
“Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hiring and Inequality in High Prestige Professions.” National Science Foundation, with Lauren Rivera ($7,500), 2007-2008
“African-American Responses to Racism and Discrimination.” National Science Foundation ($209,985), 2007-2009
“Successful Societies.” (project co-director with Peter Hall). Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies, ($900,000), 2003-2007.
Knowledge Making, Use, and Evaluation in the Social Sciences (with Charles Camic and Neil Gross), Russell Sage Foundation. ($35,000) 2006-2007.
“Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Analysis.” National Science Foundation. ($52,122). 2005-2006.
"The Social Study of the Social Sciences and the Humanities." Exploratory seminar with Charles Camic and Neil Gross. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. ($12,000). 2005.
"Negotiating Social Identities in an Elite Independent High School." National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award with Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Harvard University. ($7,490). 2004-2005.
"Architects and the Puzzle of State Socialist Modernization: Architectural Discourse in Hungary and East Germany after the Second World War." National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award with Virag Molnar, Princeton University. ($4,500). 2002-2003.
"Explaining Changes in Criminal Justice and Social Welfare Policies in the American States, 1967-1985." National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award with Joshua Guetzkow, Princeton University. ($7,500). 2002-2003.
"Categories and Criteria of Evaluation of Research Proposals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities." National Science Foundation. ($114,575). 2001-2003.
"Defining Sexual Harassment in France and the United States." National Science Foundation. Dissertation improvement grant with Abigail Cope Saguy. ($3,400). 1998-1999.
"Race, Class, and Culture" conference. Russell Sage Foundation. ($25,000). Fall 1996.
"The Princeton-Paris Project on Evaluative Models." National Science Foundation and the Centre national de recherche scientifique (jointly with Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris). ($20,000). 1995-1998.
"The Best and the Brightest: Definitions of Personal and Cultural Excellence among the 1991 Presidential Scholars." Spencer Foundation. ($12,000). 1994-1996.
"Cultural Representation of Paternity Among Poor, Unmarried Parents." National Science Foundation. Dissertation improvement grant with Maureen Waller. ($7,500). 1994-1996.
"Principles of Evaluation in Comparative Perspective." Council for European Studies. ($2,500). 1994.
"Male Working Class Culture in France and America." National Science Foundation. ($104,500). 1992-95.
"Male Working Class Culture in France and America." American Philosophical Society Travel grant. Summer 1992 (declined).
"The Culture of the American Upper-Middle Class." Lilly Endowment. ($30,000). 1988-1989.
"Upper-Middle Class Culture in Indianapolis." National Science Foundation-American Sociological Association. "Problems in the discipline grant." ($3,000). Fall 1987.
"Interviewing Parisian Intellectuals." Commission franco-américaine d'échanges universitaires. French Government. ($2,500). Winter 1987.
"The Development of the Social Science and the Growth of the State in Québec ," Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. ($2,000). 1984, 1985.

Internal Grants at Harvard

“A Comparative Study of Responses to Discrimination by Members of Stigmatized Groups.” Weatherhead Initiative in International Affairs ($170,000), 2007-2009.
“Real Estate Agents as Cultural Brokers.” Real Estate Academic Initiative at the Graduate School of Desogn, with Lauren Rivera ($18,975), 2007-2008.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Grant ($5,000), 2006-2007.
"Ethno-racism and the Transformation of Collective Identity." Conference grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ($20,000). January 2005.
"Bridging Boundaries: Destigmatization Strategies of African-Americans and Black Brazilians." Large grant for faculty research project, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. ($80,000). 2005-2008.

Publications

Books

2000(a)	The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Paperback 2002.

	French translation, La dignite des travailleurs, 2002. Paris: Presses de Science Po. Data archived at the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Summer 2003. Review by Lawrence D. Bobo in Contemporary Sociology 31(2): 120-122 (March 2002). Review by Rick Fantasia in Contemporary Sociology 31(2): 122-125 (March 2002). Review by John Solomos in Ethnic and Racial Studies 24(5):859-860 (September 2002). Review by Patrick J. Carr in American Journal of Sociology 107(2):503-505 (September 2001).
1992(a)	Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Morality and Society series, ed. by Alan Wolfe). (2nd edition: 1999).

	French translation, La morale et l'argent: La culture des cadres en France et aux Etats-unis. Paris: A.M. Metailié, (Leçons de choses series, ed. by Luc Boltanski). 1995.

	Sections reprinted in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life--Readings, edited by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, pp. 199-214. 1995.

	Sections reprinted, "Symbolic Boundaries and Status," in Cultural Sociology, edited by Lyn Spillman, Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 98-119. Interviews archived at the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Summer 2003.

Edited Collections

  2000(b)

Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London: Cambridge University Press (Cultural Social Studies Series, ed. by Jeffrey Alexander and Steven Seidman) and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. 375 pp.

Chinese translation, Jianqiao Xueshu Qianyan. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2005.

French translation forthcoming: Belin, Paris.

1999(a)

The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries (edited volume) Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

  1992(b)

Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality, co-edited with Marcel Fournier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2nd edition: 1994).

  1989(b)

Culture as Capital. Special issue of Sociologie et Sociétés, 19 (4). Co-editor and co-author of introduction, both with Marcel Fournier (published in French; refereed journal).

Articles

2007(a)

"Bridging Boundaries: the Equalization Strategies of Stigmatized Ethno-racial Groups Compared." (with Christopher A. Bail). Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Working Paper Series, Issue # 154.

2007(b)

“Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review” (with Grégoire Mallard and Joshua Guetzkow). Science, Technology and Human Values.

2007(c)

“Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication” (with Mario Small). Background paper prepared for the World Report on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO.

2007(d)

“Boundary processes: Recent theoretical developments and new contributions” (with Mark Pachucki and Sabrina Pendergrass). Poetics 35(6).

2006(a)

"Beyond Blind Faith: Overcoming the Obstacles to Interdisciplinary Evaluation" (with Grégoire Mallard and Joshua Guetzkow). Research Evaluation. 15 (1): 43-57. Link to article

2005(a)

"Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance. Les catégories internes et externes de l'identité collective." (with Christopher Bail). Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. 21 (2): 61-90.

2005(b)

"Everyday Anti-Racism: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite" (with Crystal Fleming). Du Bois Review 2 (1): 29-43.

2004(a)

"What is Originality in the Social Sciences and the Humanities?" (with Josh Guetzkow and Gregoire Mallard). American Sociological Review 69 (2): 190-212.

2003(a)

"Who Counts as 'Them': Racism and Virtue in the United States and France." Contexts 2 (4): 36-41.

2003(b)

"From Character to Intellect: Changing Conceptions of Merit in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, 1951-1971" (with Angela Tsay, Andrew Abbott, and Joshua Guetzkow). Poetics 31(1):23-17.

2002(a)

"The Study of Boundaries Across the Social Sciences" (with Virag Molnar). Annual Review of Sociology 28: 167-195.

2002(b)

"Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working Class Men (with Sada Aksartova). Theory, Culture and Society 19 (4): 1-25.

2002(c)

"North African Immigrants Respond to French Racism: Demonstrating Equivalence Through Universalism" (with Ann Morning and Margarita Mooney). Ethnic and Racial Studies 25 (3): 390-414.

2001(a)

"How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from African-American Marketing Specialists" (withVirág Molnár). Journal of Consumer Culture. 1 (1): 31-45.

2001(b)

"Immigration and the Salience of Racial Boundaries among French Workers." French Politics, Culture, and Society, 19 (1): 1-21.

Reprinted in Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, edited by Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004), pp. 141-161.

2001(c)

"Symbolic Boundaries." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. London: Pergamon Press. Pp. 15341-15347.

2000(c)

"Comparing French and American Sociology." The Tocqueville Review. Special 20th anniversary issue on "Intellectual, Political, and Cultural relationships Between France and the United States over the Last Twenty Years." 21 (1): 109-122.

2000(d)

"The Future of Cultural Sociology: Broadening our Agenda." Contemporary Sociology, special millennium issue on "Sociology in the 21st Century." 29 (4): 602-607.

2000(e)

"The Best of the Brightest: Definitions of the Ideal Self among Prize-Winning Students" (with Jason Kaufman and Michael Moody). Sociological Forum. 15 (2): 187-224.

2000(f)

"Michael Schudson, Alan Wolfe, and Universal Morality." The Communication Review. 4 (10): 121-128.

1996(a)

"Cultural and Moral Boundaries in the United States: Structural Position, Geographic Location, and Lifestyle Explanations" (with John Schmalzbauer, Maureen Waller, and Daniel Weber). Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts. 24 (1): 31-56.

1996(b)

"The Nature of Virtue: Symbolic Boundaries in the French and American Upper-Middle Class." Berliner Journal Für Soziologie (in German). 6 (1): 15-32.

1995(a)
"National Identity and National Boundary Patterns in France and the United States." French Historical Studies. 19 (2): 349-365.

1989(b)

"The Power-Culture Link in a Comparative Perspective." Comparative Social Research, 11: 131-150.

1988(a)

"Surveying the Continental Drift; The Diffusion of French Social and Literary Theory in the United States" (with Marsha Witten). French Politics and Society. 6 (3): 17-23.

1988(b)

"Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments" (with Annette L. Lareau). Sociological Theory. 6 (2): 153-68.

First available in the series Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago, 1987.

1988(c)

"From Paris to Stanford: A Sociological Reconversion from French to American Sociology" (in French). Politix. (3-4): 22-29.

1987(a)

"How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida." American Journal of Sociology. 93 (3): 584-622.

Reprinted in The New American Cultural Sociology, edited by Philip Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93-108, 1998.

Translated into Japanese, Seijo Communication Review. 9: 93-143, 1995.

1987(b)

"Cultural Capital and the Liberal Political Attitudes of Professionals: Comment on Brint." American Journal of Sociology. 92 (6). pp. 1501-5.

1984

"Social Movements in Interorganizational Context: The Case of Women's Organizations" (in French). Politique. 5: 75-106.

1983
"The Ideological Crisis in the United States" (in French). Politique. 4: 5-26.

1982

"The Power of Intellectuals" (in French). Politique. 1: 19-46.

Chapters:

Forthcoming	"Critères d'évaluation et structures culturelles: réflections sur un parcours de recherches." Sens de la critique, sens de la justice, edited by Catherine Guaspare, Marc Breviglieri, Claudette Lafaye, and Daniel Tom. Paris: La Découverte.
Forthcoming	"Consumption" (with Virag Molnar). Encyclopedia of Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by Ellis Cashmore. London: Routledge.
2006(b)	"How French and American Workers Define Cultural Membership," in Inequalities of the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso. pp. 93-118.
2006(c)	"Evaluating creative minds: the assessment of originality in peer review" (with Marcel Fournier, Joshua Guetzkow, Gregoire Mallard, and Roxane Bernier). Knowledge, Communication, and Creativity, edited by Arnaud Sales and Marcel Fournier. London: Sage.
2005(c)	"Communauté et exclusion: Le role de l'immigration, de la race, et de la pauvreté." in Les codes de la différence. Race, Origine, Religion. France, Allemagne, Etats-Unis, edited by Riva Kastoryano. Paris: Les Presses de Science Po. Pp. 239-262.
2004(b)	"The Evaluation of Scholarship Programs," The Lucky Few and the Worthy Many: Competitive Scholarships and the World's Future Leaders, edited by Alice Stone Ilchman, Warren F. Ilchman, and Mary Hale Tolar. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
2004(c)	"A Life of Hard but Justified Choices: Interviewing Across (too) Many Divides," Researching Race and Racism, edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos. London: Routledge.
2002(d)	"Working Men's Imagined Communities: The Boundaries of Race, Immigration, and Poverty in France and the United States." Pp. 178-197 in The Postmodern Self: Imagining and Belonging, edited by Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
2002(e)	"Social Categorization and Group Identification: How African Americans Shape their Collective Identity Through Consumption" (with Virág Molnár). Pp. 88-111 in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Demand and Its Role in Innovation, edited by Kenneth Green, Andrew McMeekin, Mark Tomlinson and Viven Walsh. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2001(d)	"Culture and Identity." Handbook of Sociological Theory, edited by Jonathan H. Turner. New York: Plenum. Pp. 171-185.

2000(g)	"Introduction: Toward a Renewed Comparative Cultural Sociology," (with Laurent Thévenot). Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States, edited by Laurent Thévenot. London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. Pp. 1-22.

2000(h)	"The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Racism in France and the United States," Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. Pp. 25-55. Also Working Paper series, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. 42pp.

2000(i)	"Conclusion: Exploring the French and American Polity" (with Laurent Thévenot). Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. Pp. 307-327.

2000(j)	"Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Boundaries among Non-College Educated Workers" Transnational Communities Programme Working Papers Series, Oxford University.

1999(b)	"Introduction: Beyond Taking Culture Seriously," The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

1999(c)	"Above 'People Above:' Status and Worth Among White and Black Workers," The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

1997(a)	"The Meaning of Class and Race: French and American Workers Discuss Differences," Reworking Class, edited by John Hall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 193-220.

1997(b)	"Colliding Moralities Between White and Black Workers," Sociology to Cultural Studies, edited by Elizabeth Long. New York: Blackwell, pp. 263-285.

1997(c)	"The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer the Same: Cultural Dynamics of Exclusion and Community in France, the United States, and Québec," Self-Determination and Self-Administration, edited by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with Sir Arthur Watts. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiners Publisher, pp. 199-220 (includes reply by Robert Putnam, pp. 215-217)

1993	"Pride, Shame, Self-identity and Symbolic Boundaries." Structuration du social et modernité avancée, edited by Michel Audet and Hamid Bouchikhi. Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval (published in French). Pp. 437-442.

1991	"France: Alternative Locations for Public Debate," (with Jack Veugelers). Between States and Markets: The Public Sphere in Advanced Industrial Societies, edited by Robert Wuthnow. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 125-156.

1990	"Betwixt-and-Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States," (with Robert Wuthnow). Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis, edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 287-315.

1987(c)	"The Production of Culture in France and the United States," The Role of Intellectuals in Liberal Democracies, edited by Alain G. Gagnon. New York: Praeger. Pp. 167-178.

1985	"Institutional and Intellectual Differences Between American and French Sociology," Political Science and Science Policy in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by B. Crousse and M. Th. Graeven. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag. pp. 119-144.

Online Publications

2005(d)

"Peer Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Compared: The United States, the United Kingdom and France" (with Gregoire Mallard). Report prepared for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ottawa: SSHRC. 40 pp. Introduction; Full Report.

Published Reports, Review Essays and other Essays

2007(b)	“What makes a society succeed? “ (with Peter Hall). An adaptation from the introduction to the book Successful Societies: Institutions, Cultural Repertoires and Health, edited by Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont. Reach: the magazine of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Spring 2007
2007(a)	"A Strategy for Assessing Science: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging." National Research Council, and Committee on Assessing Behavioral and Social Science Research on Aging. Edited by Irwin Feller and Paul C. Stern. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
2006(d)	"Le mal americain" (with Eloi Laurent). Commentary in Liberation.fr, posted July 6, 2006.
2006(e)	"France shows its true colors" (with Eloi Laurent). Op-ed in The Boston Globe, June 3, 2006 p A-11. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, June 6, 2006.
2005(e)	"Le cas Derrida vu par la sociologie des sciences génealogie d'un succès." Sciences Humaines, special issue 3 (May-June): 68-70.
2005(f)	"Ethno-racism and the Transformation of Collective Identities." Centerpiece: Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 19/20 (3/4): 3, 7.
2004(d)	"Recruiting, Promoting, and Retaining Women Academics: Lessons from the Literature." Prepared for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, December 8.
2004(e)	"Theoretical Growth and Conceptual Foreplay." Perspectives. Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section. 27 (3) (July). 5 pp.
2004(f)	"Theoretical Cultures in the Social Sciences and the Humanities." Perspectives. Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section. 27 (2) (April). 5 pp.
2004(g)	"The Theory Section and Theory Satellites." Perspectives. Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section. 27 (1) (January). 5 pp.
2004(h)	"Evaluating Qualitative Research: Some Empirical Findings and an Agenda." Workshop on Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research, edited by Charles C. Ragin, Joane Nagel, and Patricia White. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation. Pp. 91-95.
2004(i)	"Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences," edited by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Contemporary Sociology. 33 (5): 617-618.
2004(j)	"Talk of Love" by Ann Swidler. American Journal of Sociology 109(5): 1201-1202.
2002(f)	"Report on the 13th International Conference of Europeanists." European Studies Newsletter 3 1(516): 4-5.
2001(e)	"Cultural Repertoires: An Introduction." Comparative and Historical Sociology. Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. 13(3):1-2. Reprinted in in the Culture, Newsletter of the Culture Section of the ASA, Spring 2002.
2001(f)	"How to Become Bigger than One." Christian Science Monitor. January 2. pp. 13-16.
2001(g)	"Comparative Cultural Sociology and the Study of Europe." European Studies Newsletter. 30 (3-4), February, pp. 9-11.
2001(h)	"Evaluating Interdisciplinary Scholarship (with Joshua A. Guetzkow). Items and Issues. Newsletter of the Social Science Research Council. 1 (3-4), pp. 12-13.
2001(i)	"Three Questions for a Big Book: Collins' The Sociology of Philosophies." Sociological Theory. 19 (1), pp. 86-91.
1999(d)	"Too much Economics," (with Virág Molnár). Boston Review. 24 (3/4): 18-19.

	Reprinted in Do Americans Shop too Much? By Juliet Schor, edited by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rodgers. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 75-80. 1999.

1996(c)	"Snobbism: A Tradition on its Way to Extinction?" Prometeo. Revista Trimestrale Di Scienze E Storia (in Italian).

1995(b)	"The Mysteries of Fluid Identities." Culture. 9 (2).

1995(c)	"Ferments from the Field." Culture. 9 (4)

1994(a)	"Postcard from L.A." Culture. 9 (1).

1994(b)	"Symbolic Politics and the Hill/Thomas Affair." Contemporary Sociology (Review essay).

	Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jeff Hunter. FarmingtonHills, MI: The Gale Group, 2001.

1992(a)	"Boudon on Truth or Some Cognitive Explanations for Theoretical Seduction." Contemporary Sociology. 21 (2) (Review essay).

1992(b)	"Crisis or No Crisis: Culture and Theory in Sociology, the Humanities, and Elsewhere." Culture. 6 (2).

1989(c)	"Slipping the World Back in: Bourdieu on Heidegger," Contemporary Sociology. 18 (5) (Review essay).

Editorial Activities

Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Cultural Economy (2007-).
Series Co-Editor, Princeton Series in Cultural Sociology, Princeton University Press (1996- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Cultural Sociology (2006-).
Consultant Editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Austin Hakkington, Barbara Marshall, and Hans-Peter Mueller (2004- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Du Bois Review (2004- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Consumer Culture (2000- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Europe in Transition series, St. Martins' Press (1999- ).
Member of Editorial Board, French Politics, Culture, and Society (1999- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire (1999- ).
Member of Editorial Board, The Tocqueville Review (1997- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Political Science (1997-2000).
Member of Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Sociology (1997- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociologie et Sociétés (1996- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts (1995- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Forum (1995- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Politique et sociétés (1995- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Theory, Culture, and Society (1988- ).
Member of Editorial Board, European Journal of Social Theory (2002- ).
Member of Editorial Board, American Sociological Review (2000-2004).
Member of Editorial Board, Politix (Paris) (2002).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Theory (2000-2001 ).
Member of Editorial Board, Book Review Committee, French Politics and Society (1997-1999).
Member of Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology (1994-1997).
Associate Editor, Cambridge Cultural Social Studies, Cambridge University Press (1990-1996).

Elected Positions in Professional Associations

Council Member, American Sociological Association, 2006-2008.
Chair, Council for European Studies, 2006-2009.
Member, Program Committee, American Sociological Association, 2006.
Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2003-2004.
Member of Executive Committee, Council for European Studies, 2001-2006.
Council Member, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 1997-2000 .
Council Member, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.
Member, Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association, 1996-1998.
Member, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, 1993-1995.
Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1994-1995; Chair elect 1993-1994.
Council Member, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1992-1993.

Consultancy

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 2001.

Other Services in Professional Associations

Member, Committee on Awards, American Sociological Association, 2004-2008.
Chair, Nominations Committee, Theory Section of the ASA, 2004-2005.
Member, Search Committee for New Executive Director, Council for European Studies, 2004.
Member, Program Committee, 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, 2004.
Organizer, Mini-conference on "Analyzing Theoretical Cultures," American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 2004.
Organizer, session on "Sociological Theory and Empirical Research," mini-conference of the Theory Section, American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, United States, August 2002.
Co-organizer, session on "Theoretical and Empirical Implications of 'Cultural Repertoires'" and "Culture and Comparative Sociology: the Tension Between Context and Generalization" (with Charles Ragin) co-sponsored by the Comparative and Historical Society Section and the Culture Section, American Sociological Association Meetings, Anaheim, August 2001.
Organizer, Special session on "Racialized Ways of Seeing," American Sociological Association meetings, Anaheim, August 2001.
Council for European Studies: Chair of the Program Committee, Annual Meetings, March 14-16, 2001. Chicago.
Appointed member of Nominations Committee, Sociological Research Association, 1997-1998.
Culture Section, American Sociological Association: Membership Committee 1991-92; Nominations Committee 1990-91; Program Committee 1990-91; Publication Committee 1989-90.
Theory Section, American Sociological Association: Chair, Nominations Committee 1991-92.
Comparative Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association: Chair, Nominations Committee, 1989-90.
Organizer, thematic session on "Cultural Transitions," American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, August 1999.
Organizer, regular sessions on "The Sociology of Knowledge and of Intellectuals," American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August 1998.
Organizer, sessions on "Symbolic Boundaries," Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia, March 1995.
Co-organizer (with Ann Swidler), Conference on "Meaning and Measurement" and Symbolic Boundaries, George Mason University, August 1995.
Co-organizer, Princeton-Rutgers Conference on "Culture and Cognition," Rutgers University, 1994.
Program Committee, Conference on "Practicing Theory: Intellectual and Institutional Challenges," Theory Section, American Sociological Association, San Diego, August 1994.
Program Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association meeting. Organized sessions on "Theory and Culture;" "Class, Race, and Culture;" "Culture Across Disciplinary Boundaries;" and an "Author Meets the Critics" session, Los Angeles, 1994.
Organizer, regular session on "The Sociology of Knowledge," American Sociological Association Meetings, Miami 1993.
Organizer, thematic session on "Culture, Intellectuals and Politics," American Sociological Association meeting, Miami 1993.
Organizer, session on "Inequality, Cultural Hierarchies and Cultural Institutions," International Institute of Sociology conference, Paris, June 1993.
Chair and co-organizer (with Diana Crane), sessions on "The Sociology of Culture," Culture Section, American Sociological Meetings, Cincinnati 1991.
Organizer, session on "Subcultures," Culture section, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Atlanta 1988.

Membership in Research Groups

National Research Council Committee on the Evaluation of Research on Aging, National Academy of Science, 2004-2006.
Planning Group on "Successful Societies," Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2002-2003.
Member, working group, " The Social Sciences at Risk: The Differential Impact of Changing University Environments on the Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities." Ford Foundation, 2003- .
Member, Society for Comparative Research, 1998- .
Correspondent member, European Society for the Sociology of Art and Design (ESSAD), 1998- .
Associate Faculty, Institute for French Studies, New York University. 1997- .
Member, Council on Work, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997-1999.
Co-director (with Laurent Thevenot), Paris-Princeton Project on Evaluative Models. Center of Excellence in French Studies (Princeton University), Institut international de Paris - La Defense, and Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1993-1999.
Member, Research Group on the Birth and Death of Norms, Russell Sage Foundation, 1996-98.

Other Professional Activities

Conference Organizer: “Cultural Lines: Frontier Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries.” National Graduate Students Conference Funded by Ethnic Studies, Center for European Studies, Department of Sociology, and other funders. Faculty Advisor (November 2005).
Conference Organizer: “Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Analysis.” National science Foundation. May 2005.
Conference Organizer: "Ethno-racism and the Transformation of Collective Identity." Conference held at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. February 2005.
Member of international network, Academy of Migration Studies of Denmark (2001- ).
Advisory Board, Intervalles (French Publishers Agency) (1997- ).
Advisory Board, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Archives, Rockefeller Foundation, 1995-1998.
Advisory Board, "Groupe de recherche et de prospective sur les nouveaux territoires urbans (Culture et Ville), Institut national de recherche scientifique, 1996- .
Advisory Board, Volume on "Teaching for the 21st Century: Understanding and Rebuilding the Social Worlds of Higher Education," edited by Ronald Aminzade and Bernice Pescosalido, 1995-1998.
Steering Committee; Project on "Globalization and Fragmentation: Cultural, Political, and Economic Challenges to the Nation State." Center for International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School (sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation), 1995-1998.

University Service (at Harvard University)

2006- Member of Advisory Committee, Dean Search, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2006- Member, Interdisciplinary Standing Committee on Global Health, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2005- Member of Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
2004- Director, European Network on Inequality, and Member, Governing Committee, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy
2004- Co-chair, Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies
2004- Advisory Board, MacKenzie King Chair in Canadian Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
2004- Departmental Representative, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Policy
2006 Member, Educational Policy Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2004-2006 Member, Social Science Advisory Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2004-2005 Member, Standing Committee for the Status of Women
2004-2005 Co-chair, French Study Group, Center for European Studies
2004-2005 Member, Review Committee for Junior Faculty
2004-2005 Chair, Junior Search in Social Studies/Sociology
2003 Member, Committee on Ethnic Studies
2003 Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies
2003 Faculty Affiliate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
2003 Member, Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
2003 Member, Board of Advisers, W.E.B. Dubois Institute

Selected Presentations

Invited Conference Papers (past ten years):

"The Color of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist," University of Michigan, September 2005.
Keynote Speaker, Meeting of the European Sociological Association, Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts, Rotterdam, November 2004.
Keynote Speaker, Conference in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm, October 2004.
"Excellence and the Future of Sociology," Keynote Speaker, Spring Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, May 2004.
"Studying Inequality," presented at conference on "Reframing Inequalities in Latin America," SUNY-Stony Brook, April 2004.
"Evaluating Qualitative Research: Some Empirical Findings and an Agenda," presented at "The Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research" organized by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation in July 2003.
Keynote speaker, Association for Canadian Studies, Ellis Island, August 2003.
Keynote speaker, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Aix en Provence, August 2003.
"The Evaluation of Scholarship Programs," Report prepared for the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Foundation, and to be presented at the conference/workshop on "Strengthening Nationally Competitive Scholarships," Rockefeller Foundation's Conference and Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, November 6-9, 2002.
"The Bridging of Boundaries: One Approach to the Study of 'Successful Societies,'" Canadian Instutute for Advanced Research, Montreal, March 2002.
"The Dignity of Working Men," Neighborhood Improvement Association Conference, Atlanta, February 2002.
"Religion and African American Anti Racist Strategies." Public lecture delivered at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Religion, Yale University, May 3, 2000; also presented to the African-American Studies Program and Sociology Department, University of California at San Diego, May 21; and at conference on "Sens de la justice, sens critique." Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-La-Salle, June 6-12, 2001.
"Identity and Inequality." Presented at a conference on Comparative Inequality, Federal University, Rio de Janiero, July 3-4, 2001.
"Researching Class, Classification, and the Self." Presidential session, Social Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November 17, 2001.
"Researching Identity: an Agenda for the Study of Eastern and Western Europe." Conference on "Redefining Europe: Meeting of Centers for the Study of Europe, East and West," Center for European Studies, New York University, November 30, 2001.
"Immigrants, Race, and Boundary Formation: Working Class Men in France and the United States." Conference on "The New Face of the European City: Immigration in an Urban Perspective." New York Consortium for European Studies. April 19-21, 2000.
"One Agenda in the Study of Culture and Identity." Paper presented at the session on "Cultural Identity" at the conference "The Culture Society: A New Place for the Arts in the Twenty-first Century" organized by the International Sociological Association Research Committee for the Sociology of the Arts, the Spanish Association for the Sociology of Culture and the Arts, and the European Sociological Association Network of the Sociology of the Arts, July 6-8, 2000.
"Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms Strategies for Bridging Boundaries among Non-College Educated Workers." Paper presented at the international conference "Conceiving Cosmopolitanism," University of Warwick, April 26-29, 2000.
"Defining Cultural Membership: Enduring National Models among French and American Workers" Paper presented at the interdisciplinary workshop on "Re-Mapping Europe: Territories, Membership, and Identity in a Supra-National Age." Center for European Studies, New York University, April 7, 2000.
"Schudson, Wolfe, and Universal Morality." Conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life," John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence, Middle Tennessee State University, November 11-12, 1999.
"Social Identity, Symbolic Community, and Exclusion in France and the United States." Keynote Lecture, Conference on "Citoyenneté et Identité Sociale." Université de Montréal, October 27-29, 1999.
"Social Categorization and Group Identification: How African Americans Shape their Collective Identity Through Consumption" (with Virag Molnar). Paper presented at the conference on "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Demand and its Role in Innovation" organized by the Center for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, January 1999.
"Race and Racism in France and the United States." Conference on "Social Ideas in Europe," New York University Vernon Center for International Studies, April 8-10, 1999.
"Comparing Politics and Repertoire of Evaluation in France and the United States: Post-Facto reflections on a Collective Research Agenda." 4th Princeton-Rutgers Conference on the Sociology of Culture. April 17, 1999.
"Self and Community in the World of French and American Workers." Paper presented at the conference on "Re-imagining Belonging: Self and Community in an Era of Nationalism and Post-nationality." Center for International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark, May 1999.
"Community and Exclusion in France and the United States: The Role of Immigration, Race and Poverty." Conference on "The Welfare State at Century's End: Current Dilemmas and Possible Futures." Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, January 1998.
"Studying Community and Exclusion in France and the United States." Keynote speaker, Graduate Student Conference on "Culture and Social Change," Department of Sociology, New York University, March 1998.
"Immigration, Community and Exclusion in France and the United States." Conference on "Integrating Immigrants in Liberal States." European University Institute, European Forum, Center for Advanced Studies, Florence, May 1998.
"Studying Communities and their Boundaries." Plenary lecture presented at the 7th National Conference of Norwegian Sociology on "The Vocabularies of Sociology," Svalbard, Norway, June 1998.
"Recent Research on Identity in Europe." Final Panelist, Conference on Identity and Politics in Contemporary Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 1997.
"North African Immigrants Respond to French Racism: Demonstrating Equivalence Through Universalism." Conference on "Universalizing from Particulars" organized by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Princeton University, May 1996.
"National Identity and National Boundary Patterns." Princeton-Rutgers Conference on the Sociology of Culture, Princeton, May 1996.
"Inequality and Community in the U.S. During Clinton's First Mandate." Final Panelist, Conference on the Clinton Years in Perspective, Université de Montréal, October 1996.
"Above 'People Above:' Status and Worth Among White and Black Workers." Conference on "Race, Class, and Culture", Russell Sage Foundation, December 1996.
"On Human Worth and Dignity: Shades of Race and Class." Conference "Interpreting Historical Change at the End of the 20th Century: The Challenges of the Present Age to Historical Thought and Social Theory" organized by Theory and Society, University of California, Davis, February 1995.
"The Frontiers of our Dreams are No Longer the Same: Cultural Dynamics of Exclusion and Community in France, Québec, and the United States." Conference on "Ethnicity and World Politics," Howard University Law School, April 1995.
"Community and Exclusion in France, Québec, and the United States." Conference on "Community and Identity," Lichtenstein Program on Self-Determination, Princeton University, June 1995.
"Criteria of Excellence and Self-Presentation for Status: A Preliminary Analysis of a Scholarship Application Process" (with Jason Kaufman and Michael Moody). White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, Washington, D.C., June 1995.
"Frontières symboliques et identité en France et aux Etats-Unis." Conference on "Cultural Identities and National Institutions: A Comparative International Perspective." Institut International de Paris - La Defense, January 1994.
"National Identity and National Boundary Patterns in France." Conference on "Working on France: French Civilization in American Universities," Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 1994.

Other Invited Lectures (past fifteen years):

Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture, American Sociological Association meeting, August 2006.
Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, April 2006.
Cultural Sociology Speaker, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, April 2006.
Mellon Lecture on Interdisciplinarity, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, February 2006.
"Quality Assessment of Interdisciplinary Work", American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 2006.
Public Lecture, Geary Institute, University College Dublin, October 2005
Global Ethnic Public Lecture, Univesity of Michigan, October 2005
Keynote Speaker, Meeting of the European Sociological Association, Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts, Rotterdam, November 2004.
Keynote Speaker, Conference in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm, October 2004.
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Spring Institute, May 2004.
Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, April 2003.
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2003.
Department of Sociology, Stanford University, October 2002.
Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, October 2002.
Centre Americain, Foundation nationale de science politique, June 2002.
New America Foundation, Washington, DC, December 2001.
Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University, April 2001.
Department of Sociology, Brown University, March 2000.
Department of Sociology, Yale University, February 2000.
Department of Sociology, University of Cork, Ireland, May 2000.
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, April 1999.
Centre d'études de la vie politique française (CEVIPOF), Fondation nationale de science politique, Paris, March 1999.
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, May 1999.
Training Seminar on Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1999.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, January 1998.
Department of Sociology, Hebrew University, January 1998.
Meetings of the Council for European Studies, Baltimore, February 1998.
Institute for French Studies, New York University, March 1998.
Centre d'études et de recherches internationale, Fondation nationale de science politique, Paris, June 1998.
Program in European Cultural Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1998.
Jenson Lecture, Department of Sociology, Duke University, November 1998.
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, December 1998.
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, April 1997.
The Social Science Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, April 1997.
Department of Sociology, CUNY-Graduate Center, February 1996.
Program on Culture and Society, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, April 1996.
Institut International de Paris-La Defense, October 1996.
Russell Sage Foundation, December 1996.
Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales , Paris, January 1995.
D.E.A. in Comparative Political Sociology, Université de Paris IV-Nanterre, January 1995.
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, June 1995.
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, October 1995.
Department of Sociology, Cornell University, November 1995.
Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), January 1994.
Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal, February 1994.
Department of Sociology, McGill University, February 1994.
Culture Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1994.
Department of Sociology, Temple University, April 1994.
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, December 1994.
Cultural Studies Seminar, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 1993.
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, February 1993.
Visiting Scholars Seminar, Schomburg Center, New York City, February 1993.
Department of Sociology, Graduate School, New School for Social Research, April 1993. Department of Sociology, Harvard University, April 1993.
International Institute of Sociology, Paris, June 1993.
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, March 1992.
European University Institute, Florence, May 1992.
University of Zurich, May 1992.
Institute of French Studies, New York University, October 1992.
New York City Consortium for European Studies, Workshop on Culture and the Arts, November 1992.
Group on Intellectuals and Politics, New York University, November 1992.
Department of Communications, Concordia University and Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal, October 1991.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings (selected):

"The Pragmatics of Evaluation: Beyond Disciplinary Ward in the Assessment of Fellowhsip Proposals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities." Gregoire Mallard, Michèle Lamont and Joshua Guetzkow, Paper presented at the mini-conference organized by the Theory Section on "Sociological Theory and Empirical Research", American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago, United States. August 2002.
Participant in an Author-meets-the-critics panel on Charles Ragin, Fuzzy-Set Social Science, American Sociological Association Meetings, Anaheim, August 2002.
"Evaluating Creative Minds: The Assessment of Originality in Peer Review." Joshua Guetzkow, Michèle Lamont, Marcel Fournier, Gregoire Mallard and Roxane Bernier. Paper presented at the symposium on "Creativity," International Sociological Association Meeetings, Brisbane, Australia. July 2002. (Please do not quote or cite without permission.)
The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu." 13th Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 2002; also Symposium on Pierre Bourdieu, New School University, April 2002.
"The Study of Boundaries in Europe and the United States." 13th Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 2002.
"Researching Culture, Inequality and the Self." Presidential Panel, Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2001.
"Consumption and Status: Evidence from African-American Marketing Specialists." (with Virag Molnar). Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 29-December 2, 2001.
Introduction to The Dignity of Working Men, Author-meets-the-Critics panel. Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago, November 2001.
Introduction to The Dignity of Working Men, Author-meets-the-critics panel, American Sociological Association Meetings, Anaheim, August 2001.
"How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from African-American Marketing Specialists" (with Virág Molnár). Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Washington, D.C., 2000.
"The Narrowing of Communities." Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, 1999.
"Community and Exclusion in France and the United States." Council for European Studies, 1998.
"Disciplinary Cultures in Transition: Evaluation of Merit in American Higher Education 1951-1971" (with Angela Tsay). American Sociological Association, 1997.
"The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Racism." American Sociological Association, 1996.
"National Identity and National Boundary Patterns." American Sociological Association, 1995.
"Criteria of Excellence and Self-Presentation for Status: A Preliminary Analysis of a Scholarship Application Process (with Jason Kaufman and Michael Moody). American Sociological Association, 1995.
"The Frontiers of Our Dreams are No Longer the Same: Cultural Dynamics of Exclusion and Community in France, the United States, and Québec." Eastern Sociological Society, 1994.
"Cultural and Moral Boundaries in the United States: Inequality and Lifestyle Explanations." (with John Schmalzbauer, Maureen Waller, and Daniel Weber). American Sociological Association, 1994.
"Race, Class, and Symbolic Boundaries in France and the United States." Council for European Studies, 1994.

Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching

Courses Taught at Harvard University

Spring 2006

Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 236. Graduate seminar on Selected Topics in Culture & Inequality
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis

Fall 2005 (on leave)

Spring 2005 (on leave)

Fall 2004

Sociology 154. Culture, Power, and Inequality
Sociology 209. Qualitative Social Analysis
Sociology 304. Culture and Social Analysis Workshop

Courses Taught at Princeton University

Undergraduate Courses: Culture and Inequality in Comparative Perspective; Stratification and Social Inequality, Social Structure and Values: France, Canada and the U.S. (with Seymour Martin Lipset); Power, Culture and Inequality; Cultural Interpretation (with James Boon, Michael Jennings, Alan Ryan, and others); History of Political and Social Thought from Plato to Marcuse; Intellectual Life in France and the U.S.; Marxism; Introduction to Sociology.

Teaching involvement with the European Cultural Studies Program, the Council of the Humanities, the Center for Human Values, and the Freshman Seminar Program, and the Community-Based Learning Initiative, Princeton University.

Graduate Courses: Sociology of Culture; Current Debates in Cultural Sociology; Contemporary Sociological Theory (American and European); Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Racial and Class Inequality; Comparative Sociology; Classical Sociological Theory; Social Stratification.

Recent Advising Activity

Degree Completed (at Harvard and Princeton)

Sada Aksartova* (Princeton; JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hosei University, Japan)
Patricia Banks (Harvard; Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, Mount Holyoke)
Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez (Harvard; Assistant Professor, OISE, Toronto)
Joshua Guetzkow* (Princeton; Robert Wood Johnson Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard)
Virag Molnar* (Princeton; Assistant Professor of Sociology, George Washington University)
Margarita Mooney (Princeton; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University)
Ann Morning (Princeton; Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University)
Natasha Warikoo (Harvard; Lecturer, University of London)

Current Advisees - Harvard

Christopher Bail*  (ABD)
Lydia Bean*  (ABD)
Crystal Fleming*
Nathan Fosse*  (ABD)
Seth Hannah  (ABD)

Mark Pachucki*
Sabrina Pendergrass*  (ABD)
Lauren Rivera*  (ABD)
Graziella Silva*  (ABD)
Jessica Welburn*

Current Advisees - Princeton

Gregoire Mallard* (ABD)
Kyoko Sato* (ABD)

Laura Stark (ABD)
Anna Sun (ABD)

Post-doctoral Fellows and Visiting Graduate Students

Gabriel Abend (graduate student, Sociology, Northwestern University; visiting graduate student at Harvard, 2005-2006)
Janice D. Aurini (recent PhD., Sociology, McMaster University; post-doctoral researcher at Harvard, 2006-2007)
Honaida Ghanim (Recent PhD., Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Hebrew University; post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, fall 2006)
Joshua Guetzkow (recent PhD., Sociology, Princeton; post-doctoral Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Program at Harvard, 2004-2006)
Nadia Marzouki** (graduate student, Political Science, Fondation National de Science Politique, Paris; visiting graduate student at Harvard, fall 2006)
Nasar Meer (graduate student, Political Science, University of Bristol (U.K.); visiting graduate student at Harvard, fall 2005)
Olivier Roueff** (graduate student, Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; visiting graduate student, Harvard, 2004-2005)
Avi Soshana (recent PhD., Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Hebrew University; post-doctoral researcher at Harvard, 2006-2007)
Jonathan White** (graduate student, Political Science, European University Institute, Florence; advisee and visiting graduate student at Harvard, winter 2005)

* Primary advisor
** Member of Dissertation Committee

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