Boundary processes: Recent theoretical developments and new contributions
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Mark A. Pachucki is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research seeks to build theoretical and methodological bridges between social network methods and sociologies of culture. His current research examines creativity as a social process, and diffusion mechanisms in public health.
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Mark A. Pachucki is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research seeks to build theoretical and methodological bridges between social network methods and sociologies of culture. His current research examines creativity as a social process, and diffusion mechanisms in public health.
Sabrina Pendergrass is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research interests are cultural sociology, race and ethnicity, inequality, and internal migration. Her dissertation examines the cultural dimensions of the reversal of the African American Great Migration.
Michèle Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. She has written widely in the fields of inequality, culture, race, knowledge, and theory. She is the author of several books including the prize-winning The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration, the forthcoming Cream Rising: Evaluation and Excellence in the Social Sciences and the Humanities and the forthcoming, Successful Societies: How Institutions and Cultural Repertoires Affect Health and Capabilities (co-edited with Peter A. Hall).