Mitchell Duneier
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Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist currently professor of sociology at Princeton University [1].
Duneier earned his PhD from the University of Chicago. His first book, "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity", which was largely his dissertation, won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, an unheard-of achievement for a dissertation. His research for this work consisted of listening to the stories of men gathered at a cafeteria in Hyde Park, Chicago, where he ate his meals for four years. Similarly, for "Sidewalk (2000)", which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award, he spent five years observing the world of street vending in Greenwich Village. He is now working on "Andrea's Dream", a book drawn from a series of articles he wrote for the Chicago Tribune about Chicago word processors, it will include comparisons with analogous workers in third-world countries.
Professor Duneier taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to The Graduate Center. He serves on the advisory board for National Public Radio's "This American Life." [2]
[edit] Selected publications
- Ethnography, the Ecological Fallacy, and the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave, 2006 American Sociological Review, 71:683-92
- Voices from the Sidewalk: Ethnography and Writing Race (in conversation with Les Back), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2006, Vol. 29, 2006
- Sur la négligence théorique et autres écueils de l’ethnographie, Revue française de sociologie, Volume 1, January 2006
- Talking City Trouble: Interactional Vandalism, Social Inequality, and the "Urban Interaction Problem", American Journal of Sociology, Volume 104, Number 5, March 1999, co-authored with Harvey Molotch)
- Sidewalk, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1999
- Slim’s Table, University of Chicago Press, 1992
