FACULTY & STAFF
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Faculty
Nancy T. Ammerman | Professor
Emily Barman | Associate Professor
Jeff Coulter | Professor
Susan Eckstein | Professor
Julian Go | Associate Professor
Alya Guseva | Associate Professor
Stephen Kalberg | Associate Professor
Nazli Kibria | Associate Professor
Ashley Mears | Assistant Professor
Sigrun Olafsdottir | Assistant Professor
Laurel Smith-Doerr | Associate Professor
John Stone | Professor
David Swartz | Assistant Professor
Peter Yeager | Associate Professor
Part-time Faculty
Susan Holsapple| Adjunct Professor
Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Peter Berger
Sally Whelan Cassidy
Adelaide M. Cromwell
Mark G. Field
S.M Miller
Paule Verdet
Eugene Walter
Senior Teaching Fellows
Cara Bowman | Economic Sociology
Courtney Feldscher | The Workplace
Don Gillis | Boston's People
Itai Vardi | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations
David Swartz
Assistant Professor
PhD, Boston University
Sociology 248B | 617.358.0650 | dswartz@bu.edu
BIO AND RESEARCH
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and teaches in the Social Sciences Division of the Core Curriculum and in the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004). He is a Book Review Editor for Theory and Society and recently co-edited a symposium on Jean-Paul Sartre for that journal. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and a maitrise from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory and he is currently writing a book on the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.
