Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

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Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (born April 9, 1978 ) is an American social researcher.

Life

Elizabeth Currid graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and received a Masters degree in Public Policy and Management in 2002 and a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University in 2006 . Currid-Halkett conducts research on the economics and sociology of art, culture and consumption in contemporary American society.

Currid-Halkett is an Associate Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning. She publishes in the Journal of Economic Geography , Economic Development Quarterly , Journal of the American Planning Association and in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers as well as in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review . Her research on the aspirational class is reminiscent of the classic American sociologist Thorstein Veblen and his Theory of the Leisure Class .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007
  • Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity . New York, NY: Faber & Faber, 2010
  • with Sarah Williams: The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Fashion Hub: A Comparative Spatial Analysis of the New York and Los Angeles Fashion Industries . In: Urban Studies, 2011, pp. 3043-3066
  • The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017

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SURNAME Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Currid, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1978