Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Autore di Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a researcher and writer on urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. He is also a documentary film-maker. His most recent book is Gang Leader mostra altro for a Day. In 2006 he also published Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor about illegal economies in Chicago. Off the Books received a Best Book Award from Slate.Com (2006) as well as the C. Wright Mills Award (2007). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000) explored life in Chicago public housing. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University from 1996-1999. He is currently Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy, and Director of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship Program, both at Columbia University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
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- Nome legale
- Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
- Data di nascita
- 1966
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- India (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Chennai, India
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Chicago (MA - Sociology, PhD - Sociology)
University of California, San Diego (BS - Mathematics) - Attività lavorative
- sociologist
urban ethnographer
Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies - Organizzazioni
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- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 2,176
- Popolarità
- #11,784
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 64
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1