Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Autor de Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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- Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1966
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- India (birth)
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- Chennai, India
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- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- University of Chicago (MA - Sociology, PhD - Sociology)
University of California, San Diego (BS - Mathematics) - Ocupaciones
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