Sudhir Venkatesh

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Sudhir Venkatesh (2013)

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (* 1966 in Chennai , India ) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Columbia University .

Life

Sudhir Venkatesh's upper-class family emigrated to the United States and he grew up in California. He studied mathematics at the University of California, San Diego (BA, 1988). He moved to the University of Chicago and received his doctorate in 1997 with the dissertation American project: an historical-ethnography of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes under William Julius Wilson . His study in a residential complex was the result of six years of “participant observation” .

He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 1996 to 1999 and received a National Science Foundation (NSF) scholarship in 2000 . He was appointed "William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology" at Columbia University and is visiting professor at the University's Law School and a member of the "Institute for Research in African-American Studies". He undertook a field study of street prostitution , the results of which were evaluated by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in their book Freakonomics . In his study Gang Leader for a Day (2008), he methodologically moved even further away from a sociological study with verifiable results; he also no longer withdrew as a participating observer. But with this publication he landed on the New York Times bestseller list and as a star in the social criticism of the feature pages and cultural channels.

In 2009 he became director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University. Irregularities in the commercial accounting soon led to his replacement. Venkatesh took a break from teaching in 2010 and served intermittently as a Senior Research Advisor with the United States Department of Justice .

His study Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor received the 2006 “C. Wright Mills Award ”. Venkatesh made several documentaries. In the film Dislocation (2002) he followed families who had to move out of an abandoned housing estate. In the film At the Top of My Voice (2007/2008) he documented the return of a scientist to his home country Georgia .

From 2011, Venkatesh was one of the academic directors of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership , an MBA program at Steinbeis University.

Fonts (selection)

  • Floating city: a rogue sociologist lost and found in New York's underground economy . New York: The Penguin Press, 2013
    • Floating city . Translated from the English by Jürgen Neubauer. Hamburg: Murmann, 2015
  • Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets . New York: Penguin Press, 2008
    • Underground economy. What gangs and companies have in common . From the American. by Christoph Bausum. Econ Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3430200199
  • with Ronald Kassimir (Ed.): Youth, Law & Globalization . Stanford University Press, 2007
  • Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution , (Extremely Preliminary and Incomplete). September 2007
  • Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
  • with Robert J. Chaskin, Prudence Brown and Avis Vidal: Building Community Capacity . Aldine Gruyter, 2001
  • American project: the rise and fall of a modern ghetto . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000

Translations

  • Floating city. Gangsters, smugglers, call girls and other incredible entrepreneurs in New York's underground economy Murmann Verlag, Hamburg, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ariel Kaminer: Columbia's Gang Scholar Lives on the Edge , New York Times , November 30, 2012
  2. ^ Elisabeth Eaves: The Other Chicago School , for Forbes , March 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Peter Richter : American Hustlers , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 28, 2014, p. 11
  4. ^ Tyler Cowen : A Dealer in the Ivory Tower , in: The New York Sun , January 9, 2008
  5. ↑ Sudhir Venkatesh , at iraas, November 22, 2013
  6. ^ C. Wright Mills Award, List , at SSSP
  7. ↑ [1] , Venkatesh's homepage at Columbia University, April 12, 2016
  8. ↑ Stefan Grund: Manhattan's skyline is made of coke , in: Literary World , May 30, 2015, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Venkatesh, Sudhir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Chennai , India