Mark Sheldon Mizruchi
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August 2014 Mark Sheldon Mizruchi Office Address: Department of Sociology Phone: (734) 764-7444 University of Michigan FAX: (734) 763-6887 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mizruchi/ Education: 1980, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook (sociology) 1977, M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook (sociology) 1975, A.B., Washington University, St. Louis (sociology) Positions Held (post-Ph.D.): 2014 (September)-: Robert Cooley Angell Collegiate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan 2012-: Barger Family Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Michigan 2012-: Director, Organizational Studies Program, University of Michigan 1991-: Professor of Sociology and Business Administration, University of Michigan 1989-91: Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University 1987-89: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University 1983-87: Supervisor of Statistical Services, Scientific Computing Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1981-87: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Biostatistics), Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1980-83: Statistical Analyst, Scientific Computing Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Areas of Interest and Expertise: 2 General: Organizational Theory, Economic Sociology, Social Network Analysis, Political Sociology Specific: Corporate Political Behavior, Social Determinants of Corporate Financing, Corporate Boards and Governance, Network Methods, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Bank Decision Making Teaching Experience (Courses Taught): Michigan (1991-): Graduate: Statistical Methods, I and II; Economic Sociology; Theories and Practices of Sociology II (contemporary sociological theory); Structural Sociology (social network theory); Political Sociology; Research Workshop in Economic Sociology. Undergraduate: Formal Organizations and their Environments; Economic Sociology; Sociological Theory; Social Stratification; Organizations, Industries, and the State; Seminar in Structural Sociology; Seminar on Network Analysis. Columbia (1987-91): Graduate: Introductory Social Data Analysis (statistical methods); Introduction to Structural Sociology. Undergraduate: Sociology of Markets and Corporations; Methods of Social Research; Inequality in Western Societies. Albert Einstein (1981-87): Graduate courses entitled "Causal Analysis in Scientific Research," "An Introduction to Network Analysis," "Biostatistics," and "Introduction to Statistical Computing." SUNY at Stony Brook (1978-80): Undergraduate courses in Research Methods, Social Stratification, Principles of Sociology, and American Society. Fellowships and Awards (post-Ph.D.): Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2014, for The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management, 2014, for The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988-93 Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1989 Member, Sociological Research Association, elected 1991 3 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, February 2008 College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Excellence in Education Award, January 2004 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Research Mentorship, Honorable Mention, April 2003 Listed in Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in American Education External Research Support Principal Investigator, "Political Consequences of Market Interdependencies Between Business Firms," National Science Foundation grant SES-8619230, $50,000, 1987-88 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation grant SES-8858669 and SES-9196148, $127,250, 1988-93 Russell Sage Foundation Travel Award to participate in the monthly Seminar on Economic Sociology, $2,250, 1991-92 (matched with funds from the NSF PYI Award) Principal Investigator, "A Longitudinal Study of Corporate Financing Among Large U.S. Firms, 1955-1992," National Science Foundation grant SBR-9308443, $184,072, 1993- 95 (with Linda Stearns, University of California, Riverside) Principal Investigator, "Interlocking Directorates and Interfirm Business Transactions, 1981-1992," National Science Foundation grant SBR-9320930, $26,984, 1994-95 Principal Investigator, "Evaluation of Bank Loans Under Conditions of Uncertainty," funded by the Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council, $14,840, 1995-96 (with Linda Stearns) Principal Investigator, "Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Bank Decision Making," funded by the Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council, $138,038, 1997-2002 (with Linda Stearns) Faculty Mentor, “The Relational Bases of Everyday Life: Behavioral Similarity and Partitioning of a Local Population,” National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award, grant SES-9901129, $7,500, 1999-2000 (with Blyden B. Potts) Faculty Mentor, “Social Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley,” National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award, grant SES-0201990, $7,500, 2002-2003 (with Mina Yoo) 4 Principal Investigator, “Changes in the American Corporate Elite, 1960-2010,” National Science Foundation grant SES-0922915, $168,493, 2009-2012 Faculty Mentor, “The Origins and Emergence of Economic Fields: The Case of Cleantech,” National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Award, grant SES- 1103201, $10,000, 2011-2012 (with Maria Farkas). Internal Research Support Council for Research in the Social Sciences Fellowships, Columbia University, $3,000 each, summers 1988 and 1990 Principal Investigator, "Bank Loans, Board Composition, and Corporate Strategy," funded by the Dean's Office of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and the Dean's Office of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, $10,900, 1992-93; $1,600 supplement, 1993-94 Principal Investigator, "Network Models of Political Decision Making: Experimental Tests," funded by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, $1,960, 1996-98 (with Blyden B. Potts) Faculty Mentor, "Social Determinants of Environmental Despoliation," funded by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, $2,000, 1996-98 (with Karen A. DeGannes) Faculty Mentor, “Social Networks and Ethnic Political Mobilization,” Rackham Graduate School Spring/Summer Research Grant, $6,000, spring-summer 2000 and Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies grant, winter 2001, $2,600 (with Erica Ryu) Principal Investigator, “Political Identification among Chief Executives of Large American Corporations, 1970-2007,” funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Dean’s Office of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 2007-2009, $9,550 Principal Investigator, “The Changing Nature of Leadership in the American Corporate Elite, 1960-2010,” funded by the Barger Leadership Institute, University of Michigan, $17,000, 2009-2010 Rackham Spring-Summer Research Grant (with Maria Farkas), University of Michigan, $6,000, 2010 5 Principal Investigator (with Maria Farkas), “Embedded Decision Making: How Businesses Conceptualize Health Insurance Provision,” funded by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, $3,000, 2010 Faculty Fellowship Enhancement Award, funded by the Provost’s Office, the Vice President for Research, and the Dean of the Graduate School, University of Michigan, $3,000, 2011-2012 Publications: Books: Mizruchi, Mark S., The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013, 384 pp.; winner of the George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management, and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Mizruchi, Mark S., The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations and their Consequences, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992, 304 pp. Mizruchi, Mark S., The American Corporate Network, 1904-1974, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982, 216 pp. Mizruchi, Mark S. and Michael Schwartz (eds.), Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 330 pp. Volume 1 of the series Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, edited by Mark Granovetter. Paperback edition issued in 1992. Articles: Mizruchi, Mark S. and Mikell Hyman, “Elite Fragmentation and the Decline of the United States,” Political Power and Social Theory, special issue on the Decline of the United States, edited by Richard Lachmann, 2014, 26:147-194. Schifeling, Todd and Mark S. Mizruchi, “The Decline of the American Corporate Network, 1960-2010,” in Thomas David and Gerarda Westerhuis (eds.), Corporate Networks in the 20th Century, London: Routledge, 2014:31-47. Mizruchi, Mark S., “Cohesion, Power, and Fragmentation: Some Theoretical Observations Based on a Historical Case,” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, special issue on Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Network Analysis, 2014, 40:199-217. 6 Mizruchi, Mark S., Linda Brewster Stearns, and Anne Fleischer, “Getting a Bonus: Social Networks, Performance, and Reward among Commercial