Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

. He is currently Maurice P. During Professor and department chair of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and has also served as a regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the

Graduate Center, CUNY The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the ...

. Duneier earned his doctorate from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

in 1992. His first book, ''Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity'', won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication. He is also the author of ''Sidewalk (1999)'', which won the

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Book Prize and the

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Award. In 2016, he published ''Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea'' with

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, which was one of the New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year and one of the Best Books of the Year by ''

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''. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Duneier taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the

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- Madison before joining the Princeton faculty and the City University of New York (where he regularly taught in a visiting capacity). He served on the original advisory board for Public Radio International's ''

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.'' He is the step-brother of Harvard political scientist Gary King.

Selected publications

* 2006. "Ethnography, the Ecological Fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave," ''American Sociological Review'' 71. * 2006. "Voices from the Sidewalk: Ethnography and Writing Race (in conversation with Les Back)," ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 29. * 2006. "Sur la négligence théorique et autres écueils de l’ethnographie," ''Revue française de sociologie'' 1. * 1999. (with

Harvey Molotch Harvey Luskin Molotch (born January 3, 1940) is an American sociologist known for studies that have reconceptualized power relations in interaction, the mass media, and the city. He helped create the field of environmental sociology and has adv ...

). "Talking City Trouble: Interactional Vandalism, Social Inequality, and the 'Urban Interaction Problem,'" ''American Journal of Sociology'' 104(5). * 1999. ''Sidewalk'', (with

Ovie Carter Ovie Carter (born March 11, 1946) was an American photographer for the Chicago Tribune from 1969 to 2004. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of famine in Africa and India together with a reporter William Mullen ...

& Hakim Hassan). Farrar Straus and Giroux, * 1992. ''Slim’s Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity'', (with

). University of Chicago Press,

References

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