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Frank Dobbin

Professor of Sociology and
Director of Graduate Studies

Biographical Note

FRANK DOBBIN joined the Harvard sociology department in February of 2003, after spending fifteen years in the sociology department at Princeton. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987, after which he taught for a year at Indiana University.

Professor Dobbin studies organizations, economic behavior, and public policy. His book, Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (winner of the American Sociological Association's 1996 Max Weber Award), traces nations' modern industrial strategies to early differences in their political systems. In 2004 he published two edited volumes. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader contains old and new classics in economic sociology, and begins with a synthetic overview of the field. The Sociology of the Economy, Russell Sage Foundation Press, compiles new research in economic sociology from leading scholars.

Professor Dobbin is currently working on a book tracing changing corporate response to Civil Rights law since 1964. In a collaborative project with Julian Dierkes, Bell Kwok, and Dirk Zorn he is examining how public policy shifts induced change in corporate structure and strategy between 1970 and 2000. In a collaborative project with Sandra Kalev and Erin Kelly, he is looking at how corporate human resources practices have affected the movement of women and African-Americans into management.

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07/21/2008

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