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. He studies cultural sociology, immigration, and collective violence using relational and set theoretic methodologies.
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. His work was recently recognized by the Aage B. Sorensen Award and the Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Political Sociology section. He currently enjoys affiliation with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
Chris is currently studying the evolution of symbolic boundaries towards Muslims since 9/11 through 1) comparative historical analysis of the policy making process in the U.S. and U.K.; 2) network analysis of social movements in the U.S.; and, 3) longitudinal qualitative interviews with ordinary Americans. In a separate project with Stanley Lieberson and Mark Pachucki, he is charting cross-national processes of cultural diffusion over the past century.
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 French Congo, Switzerland, China, and Ireland where he developed a healthy addiction to comparative cultural sociology.
06/25/2009
- Research Interests
- Culture, Immigration, Religion, Social Movements, Fuzzy Set and Relational Methodologies
- Previous Degrees
- Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics; A.M. Harvard University; Visiting Scholar: Fondation National des Sciences Politiques (Paris); A.B. Bowdoin College
Papers available in Portable Document Format (PDF)
| The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe | American Sociological Review, 73(1): 37-59. | 2008 |
| Sur les frontieres de la recconnaisance: Les categories internes et externes de l'identite collective (On the Boundaries of Recognition: Internal and External Categories of Collective Identity) | Revue Europeenne de Migrations Internationales, 21(2) 61-90. | 2005 |
Suggested Links
| The Switchman (Blog) |
Contact
617-496-5794 (FAX)
K229 CGIS, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138