Christopher Bail
Graduate Student in Sociology
Biographical Note
Christopher A. Bail is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research compares the integration of Muslims in the U.S. and U.K. since 9/11 through 1) analysis of elites in the policy making process; 2) network analysis of social movements; and, 3) longitudinal qualitative interviews.
Bail's previous studies of symbolic boundaries and anti-racism have appeared in the American Sociological Review and Revue Europeenne de Migrations Internationales . He is the recipient of grants from the German Marshall Fund, the National Science Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and the Center for American Political Studies. In 2007, he received the Aage B. Sorensen Award, and currently enjoys affiliation with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
Bail holds an A.M. from Harvard University, an A.B from Bowdoin College, and has been a visiting PhD Student at The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris) and the London School of Economics. Before coming to Harvard, he interned at the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva, Switzerland. During his childhood, Chris spent time in the Congo, Switzerland, and China where he developed his passion for comparative cultural sociology.
08/14/2008
- Research Interests
- Culture, Immigration/Citizenship, Social Movements, Fuzzy-Set/Relational Methods
- Previous Degrees
- A.M. Harvard University; Visiting Scholar: Fondation National des Sciences Politiques (Paris); A.B. Bowdoin College
Presentations and Publications
| "The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries Against Immigrants in Europe" | American Sociological Review, 73 (1):37-59 |
2008
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| "Sur les frontières de la recconnaisance: Les catégories internes et externes de l’identité collective” (On the Boundaries of Recognition: Internal and External Categories of Collective Identity)" | Revue Européenne de Migrations Internationales, 21(2) 61-90 |
2007
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Suggested Links
| The Switchman (blog) |
Contact
617-496-5794 (FAX)
N229 CGIS, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138