He was awarded the National Science Foundation NSF CAREER award in 2000. Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held continuously since 1999. In 2021, he began hosting the podcast Sudhir Breaks the Internet, which focuses on the tech industry, particularly social media companies.
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In September 2011, Venkatesh was featured on Freakonomics Radio episode 42, "The Upside of Quitting." Venkatesh was also a Freakonomics blog contributor in 2008, authoring a nine-part blog series titled, "What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire", in which he reported on the experience of watching episodes of popular crime drama television series The Wire with gang members he knew through his research. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Professor William Julius Wilson, focusing on the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project in Chicago. Venkatesh describes his switch from mathematics to sociology in graduate school as a result of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. Raised in Irvine, California, Venkatesh received a B.A. Additionally, Venkatesh is a public writer and documentary filmmaker, and has held positions at Facebook and Twitter. Venkatesh is also the host of Sudhir Breaks the Internet, a podcast published by Freakonomics Radio Network. Venkatesh is the author of the book, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets, published by Penguin Press in 2008. As of 2018, he is the Director of Signal: The Tech & Society Lab at Columbia University. In his work, Venkatesh has studied gangs and underground economies, public housing, advertising and technology.
Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held since 1999. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966) is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. University of California, San Diego ( BA)Īmerican project: a historical-ethnography of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes
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