January 2020
CURRICULUM VITAE
Viviana A. Zelizer Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology 120 Wallace Hall Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Telephone: (609) 258-4557 (office) (609) 258-4531 (departmental office) FAX: (609) 258-2180 E-mail: [email protected] http://sociology.princeton.edu/Faculty/Zelizer/
Education:
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1977 – Sociology M. Phil. Columbia University, 1974 - Sociology M.A. Columbia University, 1974 - Sociology B.A. Rutgers University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1971
Academic Honors, Awards, and Visiting Appointments:
Honorary Doctorate, Sciences Po University, Paris, November 2019
Honorary Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, elected 2019.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, Fall 2015.
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Scholar in Residence, University of Massachusetts. April 12- 16, 2015.
First Recipient, Distinguished Career Service Award for the Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association, 2013
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 2012- 2013
Graduate Mentoring Award in the Social Sciences, Princeton University, 2013.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, March 2011.
Norbert Lechner Memorial Lecturer. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, November 2010.
S. D. Clark Lecturer, University of Toronto, October 2010. Zelizer
Visiting Professor, Université Paris X, Nanterre, June 2007.
Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2007.
Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007.
Member, PEN American Center, 2006-
The Economic Sociology section of the American Sociological Association named its annual book prize the Viviana A. Zelizer Distinguished Book Award, 2003.
Professeur invité, Département de Science Sociales, École Normale Supérieure, June 2002.
Outstanding advisor award, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 2001.
Arthur Leff Fellow, Yale Law School, 1999-2000.
Cotsen Faculty Fellow, 1998-2001, Princeton University.
250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University grant.
Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council grant, 1997-2001
1996 Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association, for The Social Meaning of Money.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1996- 97.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1996-97.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1996-97.
Directeur d'Études Associé (Visiting Research Professor), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, June 1991.
Tuck Fund Award, Princeton University, July 1990.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1987-88.
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Member, Sociological Research Association, 1986-present.
1985 C.W. Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children.
1985 Elizur Wright Award, American Risk and Insurance Association for Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1983.
Emily Gregory Teaching Award (Barnard College), 1983.
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (Barnard College) (Summers 1979 and 1980).
Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University, 1977.
Institute of Life Insurance grant (New York, 1974).
Member of the Social History Traineeship Program at Columbia University, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (1972-76).
John W. Burgess Honorary Fellow (Columbia 1973-74).
Honorary President's Fellow (Columbia 1972-74).
Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Columbia 1971-72).
Teaching:
Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, 1988-2002. Chair, 1992-96. Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology, 2002-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Barnard College and Graduate Faculty of Columbia University, 1978-82. Associate Professor, 1982-85. Professor, 1985-88. Acting Chair, Department of Sociology, Barnard College (1979-1980).
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, 1976-1978.
Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Summer 1976.
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Books:
Money Talks, co-edited with Nina Bandelj and Frederick Wherry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Chinese edition, East China Normal University Press, forthcoming.
Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 2013. Spanish translation, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Contemporary Classics series, Madrid, 2015.
Vite economiche. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009.
The Purchase of Intimacy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 2007. Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009; Chinese translation, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2009; Portuguese edition, Editora Vozes, 2012; Korean edition, Eco-Livre, forthcoming.
The Social Meaning of Money. New York: Basic Books, 1994. Paperback editions, Basic Books, 1995, Princeton University Press, 1997; Russian edition, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2004; French edition, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2005, La Signification Sociale de l’Argent named “book of the month” by Sciences Humaines, February 2006; Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011. New paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 2017. Chinese edition, East China Normal University Press, forthcoming.
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books, 1985. Paperback edition, Basic Books, 1987. Revised paperback edition, Princeton University Press, 1994. Chinese edition, East China Normal University Press, forthcoming.
Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States, New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Paperback edition by Transaction, 1983. Japanese edition, Chikura Shobo, Tokyo, 1994. New paperback edition, Legacy Edition, Columbia University Press, 2017. Chinese edition, East China Normal University Press, 2019.
Articles and book chapters:
“Class on Campus: How Students Manage Everyday Inequalities” (With Lauren Gaydosh). Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 2019.
Revised version of “Ethics in the Economy” (Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics (zfwu) 2007) in Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik. (Economics, Business and Ethics, edited by Thomas Beschorner, Alexander Brink, Bettina Hollstein, Marc C. Hübscher, and Olaf Schumann Springer VS. Wiesbaden,, 2017. 4
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“My Money Obsession.” In Angèle Christin, Agnès Gramain, and Florence Weber, Money and Value. Twenty Years after Viviana Zelizer’s The Social Meaning of Money. Books & Ideas / La Vie des idées. January 18, 2016. http://www.booksandideas.net/Twenty-Years-After-The-Social-Meaning-of-Money.html
“Remittance Circuits.” In “From Economic to Social Remittances: An International Overview.” Transnational Money Initiatives Working Paper Series, January 27, 2015 http://seminars.wcfia.harvard.edu/tsi/news/wp-jan2015.
“Sobre la Negociacion de la Intimidad.” In Rodrigo Cordero Vega, ed. Formas de Comprender el Presente. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, pp. 91-104, 2013.
“Preteklost in prihodnosti ekonomske sociologije.” In Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, ed., special issue of Theory and Practice on Economic Sociology, 2013. Slovenian translation of “Past and Futures of Economic Sociology.” In Nicole Woolsey Biggart, editor, special issue “Coming and Going in Economic Sociology.” American Behavioral Scientist 50 (April 2007): 1056-69.
“The Priceless Child Turns Twenty-Seven.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5 (Fall 2012): 449-456. In special essay section, “Pricing the Priceless Child: a Retrospective.”
“A Grown- Up Priceless Child.” In Situating child consumption, edited by Anna Sparrman, Bengt Sandin, and Johanna Sjöberg. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 2012.
“How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?” Special issue on “Relational Work in Market Economies” edited by Fred Block. Politics & Society, 40 (June 2012): 145-174. Chinese translation in Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities 38 (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) special issue on Economic Sociology January 15, 2016, pp. 12-26.
“A economia do care.” Civitas. Revista de Ciencias Sociais 10 (2010): 376-391. Portuguese translation of “L’économie du care.” Revue Francaise de Socio-Économie 2 (2008): 13-25. Reprinted in Helena Hirata et Nadya Araujo Guimarães, eds. Cuidado e cuidadoras: as varias faces do trabalho do care, São Paulo: Editora Atlas, 2012.
“Culture and Uncertainty.” In Craig Calhoun, editor, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 94-112.
“Caring Everywhere.” In Rhacel Parreñas and Eileen Boris, editors, Intimate Labors: Cultures, 5
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Technologies, and the Politics of Care. Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. 267- 279.
“Chuck Tilly and Mozart.” The American Sociologist 41(December 2010): 423-428.
“Moralizing Consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture 10 (July 2010): 287-291.
“Risky Exchanges.” In Michele Bratcher Goodwin, editor, Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 267-77.
“Dinheiro, poder e sexo.” Cadernos Pagu 32 (June 2009): 135-157. Portuguese translation of “Money, Power, and Sex.” 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 303 (2006).
“Dualidades Perigosas.” Mana: Studies in Social Anthropology 15 (April 2009): 241-260.
“Intimacy in Economic Organizations.” In Nina Bandelj, editor, Economic Sociology of Work. Volume 19 in Research in the Sociology of Work. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2009, pp. 23-55.
“Rethinking Markets, Monies, and Organizations” (An Interview). The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2009.
“Pasados y Futuros de la Sociología Económica.” Apuntes de Investigación 14 (2009), pp. 094- 112. Spanish translation of “Pasts and Futures of Economic Sociology.” In Nicole Woolsey Biggart, editor, special issue “Coming and Going in Economic Sociology.” American Behavioral Scientist 50 (April 2007): 1056-69.
“L’économie du care.” Revue Francaise de Socio-Économie 2 (2008): 13-25.
“La rémuneration des services d’aide à la personne.” Retraites et sociétés 53 (January 2008): 14-19.
“Dinero, Circuitos, Relaciones Íntimas.” Sociedad y Economía 14 (June 2008): 11- 33. Spanish translation of “Argent, Circuits, Relations Intimes.” Enfances, Familles, Générations, Spring 2005. http://www.erudit.org/revue/efg/2005/v/n2/index.html.
“The Real Economy.” Qualitative Sociology 31 (June 2008): 189-93.
“The Purchase of Criticism.” Sociological Forum 22 (December 2007): 612-17.
“Ethics in the Economy.” Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics (zfwu) 1, 2007: 8-23.
“Past and Futures of Economic Sociology.” In Nicole Woolsey Biggart, editor, special issue 6
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“Coming and Going in Economic Sociology.” American Behavioral Scientist 50 (April 2007): 1056-69.
“Viviana Zelizer, L’argent social.” [extended interview by Florence Weber]. Genèses 65 (December 2006):126-37.
“Why and How to Read Why?” Qualitative Sociology 29 (Winter 2006): 531-4.
“La Sociología del Dinero.” In Salvador Giner, Emilio Lamo de Espinosa and Cristóbal Torres, editors. Diccionario de Sociología 2d. edition (Alianza Editorial, 2006). (With Charles Tilly) “Relations and Categories.” In Arthur Markman and Brian Ross, editors, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation 47. (San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2006): pp. 1-31.
“Money, Power, and Sex.” Keynote Address. 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 303 (2006).
“Children, “Good Matches,” and Policies for Care.” Research Note, Working Group on Childhood and Migration. http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/index.htm, May 2006.
“Do Markets Poison Intimacy?” Contexts 5 (Spring 2006): 33-8.
“Missing Monies.” Economy & Society 34 ( November 2005): 584-88.
“Intimate Truths.” Guardian, September 24, 2005. Reprinted in Ha’aretz, September 29.
“Intimité et économie.” Terrain 45 (September 2005): 13-28.
“Argent, Circuits, Relations Intimes.” Enfances, Familles, Générations, Spring 2005. http://www.erudit.org/revue/efg/2005/v/n2/index.html.
“The Priceless Child Revisited.” In Jens Qvortrup, editor. Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency and Culture. (London: Palgrave, 2005), pp. 184-200. Spanish translation by Valeria Llobet, “El “nino invaluable revisitado” Desarrollo Economico 52 (July-September 2012):311-328.
(With Joan Williams) “To Commodify or not to Commodify: That is not the Question.” In Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture, Martha Ertman and Joan Williams, editors, (N.Y.: NYU Press, 2005), pp. 362-82.
“Culture and Consumption.” In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, editors. Handbook of Economic Sociology, second edition. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press and New 7
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York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005), pp. 331-54.
“Circuits within Capitalism.” In Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg, editors. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp. 289-322.
“Circuits of Commerce.” In Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine Williams, editors. Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs. Explorations in Sociology. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), pp. 122-44.
“Kids and Commerce.” Childhood 4 (November 2002): 375-96.
“La construction des circuits de commerce: notes sur l’importance des circuits personnels et impersonnels.” In Jean-Michel Servet and Isabelle Guérin, Exclusion et Liens Financiers: Rapport du Centre Walras. (Paris: Economica, 2002), pp. 425-29.
“How Care Counts.” Contemporary Sociology (March 2002) 31: 115-9.
“Intimate Transactions.” In Mauro F. Guillén, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, editors, The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 274-300. French translation, “Transactions intimes,” Genèses 42, March 2001: 121-44.
“Enter Culture.” In Mauro F. Guillén, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, editors, The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pp. 101-25. French translation, “Place à la Culture,” Interventions économiques 33, April 2006, special issue on economic sociology. http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/pls/inteco/rie.entree?vno_revue=1
“Sociology of Money.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 15: 9991-4 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001).
“Economic Sociology.” In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 6: 4128-31 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001).
“Monetization and Social Life.” Etnofoor 13 (2000): 5-15. French translation, “Monétisation et vie sociale.” In Jean-Ives Trépos, editor, special issue, “Philosophies de L’Argent.” Le Portique 19 (2007): 43-58.
“Fine Tuning the Zelizer View.” Economy and Society 29 (August 2000): 383-89.
“The Purchase of Intimacy.” Law & Social Inquiry 25 (Summer 2000): 817-48.
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“From Child Labor to Child Work: Changing Cultural Conceptions of Children’s Economic Roles, 1870s-1930s.” in Stuart Bruchey and Peter Coclanis, editors, Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements: The U.S. Experience Since 1800 (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), pp. 90-101.
"Official Standardization vs. Social Differentiation in Americans' Uses of Money." In Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, editors, Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies. (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 82-96. “Multiple Markets, Multiple Cultures.” In Neil Smelser and Jeffrey Alexander, editors, Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 193-212. German translation, “Die Farben des Geldes, Vielfalt der Märkte, Vielfalt der Kulturen,” Berliner Journal für Soziologie10 (2000): 315-332, special issue on “The Power of Money.”
"How People Talk About Money." In Viviana A. Zelizer, editor, special issue on “Changing Forms of Payment.” American Behavioral Scientist 41 (August 1998), pp. 1373-83.
“Social Context and Monetary Transfers.” In Carlo Mongardini, editor. Il denaro nella cultura moderna. (Rome: Bulzoni, 1998), pp. 139-47.
“The Proliferation of Social Currencies.” In Michel Callon, editor, The Law of Markets (Blackwell, 1998), pp. 58-68.
“How Do We Know Whether a Monetary Transaction is a Gift, an Entitlement, or a Payment?” In Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman, editors, Economics, Values, and Organization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 329-33.
"The Many Enchantments of Money." In Sociological Visions, edited by Kai Erickson (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 83-93.
“Payments and Social Ties.” Sociological Forum 11 (September 1996): 481-95. Spanish translation, "Pagos y lazos sociales" Critica en desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales 2: 43-61 (2008); Swedish translation, “Betalningar och sociala band.” In Katarina Jacobson and David Wasterfors editors, Fran Klarhet Till Klarhet, Égalité Publisher, 2013.
"Childhood." In A Companion to American Thought, edited by Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 115-16.
"The Creation of Domestic Currencies." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 84 (May 1994): 138-42.
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"Making Multiple Monies." In Richard Swedberg, editor, Explorations in Economic Sociology. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993), pp. 193-212. Russian translation in Economic Sociology http://ecsoc.hse.ru (Volume 3, 2002).
"Money." In the Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Edgard F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1992), pp. 1304-10, second edition, 2000, pp. 1888-94.
"Repenser le Marché." Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales 94 (September 1992): 3-26.
"The Social Meaning of Money: `Special Monies'." American Journal of Sociology 95 (September 1989): 342-77. Portuguese translation, “O Significado Social Do Dinheiro: ‘Dinheiros especiais.” In Rafael Marques and João Peixoto, editors, A Nova Sociologia Económica (Oreiras, Portugal: Celta), 2003, pp. 125-65. Hungarian translation, “A pénz társadalmi jelentése: "speciális pénzek." In: Lengyel, György, and Szántó, Zoltán (eds.), A gazdasági élet szociológiája (Sociology of Economic Life). E-book. Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem [Corvinus University of Budapest], 2011.
"Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda." Sociological Forum 3 (Fall 1988): 614-34.
"From Baby Farms to Baby M." Society 25 (March/April 1988): 23-28.
"Pricing Life: A Historical and Sociological Perspective." In Per Oftedal and Anton Brogger, editors, Risk and Reason (New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1986), pp. 59-70.
"The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children's Insurance." American Journal of Sociology 86 (March 1981): 1036-56. German translation, “Preis und Wert von Kindern: Die Kinderversicherung,” pp. 123-48 in Macht der Unschuld: Das Kind als Chiffre (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2005).
"Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America." American Journal of Sociology, 84 (November 1978): 591-610. Russian translation in Economic Sociology http://ecsoc.hse.ru (March 2010).
"The Unmarried Jew: Problems and Prospects." Conservative Judaism XXXII (Fall, 1978): 15-21. Reprinted in: Tefutsot II Israel, XVII, 1979.
"Life Insurance as a Social Mechanism." The National Underwriter, November 15, 1975.
"The Conservative Rabbinate - In Quest of Professionalism." Judaism XXII (Fall, 1973): 490- 96 (with Gerald Zelizer). Reprinted in The Rabbinate in America: Reshaping an Ancient Calling, series on Judaism in Cold War America: 1945-1990, edited by Jacob Neusner 10
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(Garland Publishing, 1993).
Other Professional Publications and Podcasts
Podcast, Bad with Money with Gaby Dunn https://www.iheart.com/podcast/8-bad-with- money-with-27868313/episode/bad-with-money-goes-international-52893944/
Jose Ossandon, Viviana Zelizer “How Did I Become a Historical Economic Sociologist? Viviana Zelizer in Conversation with Jose Ossandon,” Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate 13 (2019). https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/10132
“Interview: About Sociology.” In A Journey of Discovering Sociology: What Sociology is in 20 American Sociologists’ Eyes” Alexander Chen, editor. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2018.
“Afterword to the 2017 Edition.” The Social Meaning of Money [1994]. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 217-228.
“Accounts Dialogue: Money Talks Explaining How Money Really Works” Interview for Accounts, American Sociological Association Newsletter, Summer 2017.
“A Dollar is a Dollar is not a Dollar: Unmasking the Social and Moral Meanings of Money.” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 15, 2017.
“A negociação da intimidade, dez anos depois. Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer.” In Nadya Araujo Guimarães and André Vereta-Nahoum, editors, Tempo Social 29, 2017: 191-209. http://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/issue/view/8328
“Conversation on money.” Interview for Accounts, American Sociological Association Economic Sociology Newsletter, Summer 2016.
“The Gender of Money.” Ideas Market, Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2011. http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/01/27/the-gender-of-money/
“The Best Present Money Can Buy.” Op-ed, The New York Times, January 6, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07zelizer.html
“Rethinking Markets, Monies, and Organizations: An Interview with Viviana A. Zelizer.” By David Franz. The Hedgehog Review 11 (Summer 2009): 66-75.
“Ethics in the Economy.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Summer 2008: 2-12. Revised version of paper 11
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“Charting A New Discipline.” 2007. Review of Caroline Dufy and Florence Weber, L’ethnographie économique. Paris: La Découverte, 2007. European Journal of Sociology XLVIII: 485-6.
“Interview: Viviana Zelizer answers ten questions about economic sociology.” European Economic Sociology Newsletter 8: July 2007: 41-5.
“Reflections on Intimacy.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Spring 2007: 10-12.
“False Taboos,” May 6, 2007; “Pricing a Child’s Life,” September 6, 2007, “Gasoline Gift Cards: How Americans Invent Money,” July 16, 2008, “Sex, Money, and Marriage,” August 19, 2009, “A Humbler Bonus,” January 31, 2009, “The University as Students’ Workplace?” (with Lauren Gaydosh), April 1, 2014, Paying Wives: Bonus, Gift, or Allowance?” June 2, 2015. Posted on Huffington Post blog.
Essays (“Intimate Debts”, “Micromarkets”, “Women’s and men’s money: what difference does it make?”, “The Independence Myth”, “Personal Ties Matter”) in Credit Slips: A Discussion on Credit and Bankruptcy blog, October 30-November 3, 2006.
“Circuits in Economic Life.” European Economic Sociology Newsletter 1: November 2006: 30-5. Italian translation: “I circuiti nella vita economica.” In Francesco Paolo Cerase, editor Azione economica e azione sociale. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008), pp. 257-269.
“The Evolution of Economic Sociology.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Fall 2005: 7-8.
“Love Hikers Don’t Walk Alone.” Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association 18 (Winter 2004): 1, 3-4.
“How the World Needs Economic Sociology.” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Spring 2002: 1-2.
Materials for the Study of Childhood, with Nina Bandelj and Ann Morning, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 2001.
“How and Why Do We Care About Circuits?” Accounts (Newsletter of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association), Fall 2000 1: 3-5.
“A Gendered Division of Labor.” Newsletter of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work 12
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Section of the American Sociological Association, Fall 1999. Revised version in the European Economic Sociology Newsletter 1: June, 2000: 2-5.
“Alejandro Portes’ Sociological Journey,” Footnotes, September/October 1998: 4.
“Money’s Worth,” Interview by Radio Australia, June 1998. http://www.abc.net.au.
“Next Steps in Economic Sociology,” Editorial, ECONSOC. [email protected]. February 1998.
About twenty book reviews in professional journals and mass media.
Selected Presentations (present - 2008)
“The College Economy: How Students Manage Everyday Inequalities.” Centre de sociologie des organisations, Sciences Po University, Paris, November 2019,
“Deciphering Economic Puzzles: Reflections on a 40-year Journey.” Sciences Po University, Honorary Degree Ceremony, November 2019.
“Why and How Do Social Relations Matter for Economic Lives?” Inaugural Lecture, Elinor Ostrom Speaker Series, Mercatus Center’s F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, George Mason University, October 17, 2019.
“Art Stinchcombe, Economic Sociologist,” Memorial session for Arthur Stinchcombe, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2019.
“The College Economy: How Students Manage Everyday Inequalities,” Harvard University Economic Sociology Seminar and Sociology Department Seminar, Boston University, May 2019
“The Making of Economic Sociology: How a Book Shapes a Field.” Presented at “The Wealth of Ideas: How Scholarly Books Shape the World. A conference in honor of Peter J. Dougherty. Princeton University, October 2017.
“Celebrating Charlie Smith, a Wise Man,” In “From Markets to Sensible Action: Memorial Event for Charles Smith.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017.
“The College Economy: Creating New Forms of Inequality.” With Lauren Gaydosh. Presented at “Presidential Panel: Exclusion as an Unintended Consequence.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017.
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“El Significado Social del Dinero: Historia De Una Obsesion Sociologica.” Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2017.
“Women’s Money: Are All Dollars Equal?” Israel & Shirley Segal Memorial Lecture. Congregation Neve Shalom, Metuchen, New Jersey, May 2017.
“Economic Sociology’s Gender Puzzle.” (with Nina Bandelj). Presented at a session on “Feminist conversations and Sociological Paradigms: Have Sociological Subfields Changed?” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2016.
Chair, Panel on “Social Studies of Money in Latin America.” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Panel, May 2016.
“College Circuits: A Case of Situational Stratification.” Presented at “Social Interaction and Theory: A Conference in Honor of Professor Randall Collins.” April 2016. (with Lauren Gaydosh)
“College Currencies: Managing Everyday Inequalities.” Presented at Columbia University’s Department of Sociology, March 9, 2016. (with Lauren Gaydosh).
“Circuits and Organizational Economies.” Keynote lecture presented at the 2d Conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September 2015.
“La Negociacion de la Intimidad en 2015.” Presented at a special event celebrating the 10th anniversary of Purchase of Intimacy. Centro Brasileiro de Altos Estudos, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, September 2015.
“Creating Economies: The Case of College Monies,” and “My Money Obsession.” Presented at the conference on “Pricing Practices, Ranking Practices: Evaluation in Economic Life” celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Social Meaning of Money. Paris, June 2015.
“Domestic accounts.” Presented at the seminar on “Oikos: Affects, Economies and Politics of House-ing”. Princeton University, May 15, 2015.
“Valuing Intimacy: Does Money Corrupt?” Presented at the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 2015.
“Remittance Circuits.” Workshop on “Following the Intangible Flows: Transnational Approaches to Immaterial Remittances, “Princeton University, September 2014.
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“How economic sociology can advance the analysis of college debt” Discussant, "Hard Times in College: Conflicting Visions of Affordable Postsecondary Education.” Thematic Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2014.
Co-organizer and Discussant, session on “Money Advances: International Developments, “Economic Sociology Section session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2014.
“Creating Currencies: The Case of the College Economy,” Keynote presentation at the 7th CIS-Harvard Summer Seminar on Sociological and Political Research, Cambridge, Mass. August 2014.
“College Currencies.” Presented at a session on “Organizations and Inequality.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 2013.
“College Currencies: How Students Manage Their Daily Economic Lives." Paduano Symposium in Business Ethics, Stern School of Business, New York University, May 2013.
“The Morality of Money.” Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, December 2012.
“Maternal Money.” "Deconstructing and Reconstructing 'Mother.'" Columbia University workshop, April 19, 2012.
“The Priceless Child Turns 25.” Special session on “Pricing the Priceless Child: A Retrospective.” Social Science History Association, Boston, November 19, 2011.
Co-organizer and discussant, session on “From Embeddedness to Relational Work: A New Agenda for Economic Sociology.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 2011.
“Exploring the borderlands of culture and the economy.” Discussant, 5th Junior Theorists Symposium, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, August 2011.
“How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?” Department of Sociology, Columbia University, March 2011.
“A New Agenda for Economic Sociology.” Department of Sociology, Columbia University, March 2011.
“The Economics of Intimacy.” Economic Sociologists Meet the 21st Century. Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series, Columbia University, March 2011. 15
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“The Social Meaning of Money.” Faculty seminar on the Social Meaning of Money sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, February 2011.
“Circuitos y Relaciones.” Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, November 2010.
“Sobre la Negociación de la Intimidad.” Norbert Lechner Memorial Lecture. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, November 2010.
“Circuits and Relations.” Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, October 2010.
“Circuits and Relational Work.” Session on “From Community and Network to Relational Work?” 26th EGOS colloquium, Lisbon, 2010.
“A Grown Up Priceless Child.” Special session on the 25th anniversary of Pricing the Priceless Child, Conference Child and Teen Consumption, Norrkoping, Sweden, June 2010.
“How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?” Presented at the conference on “Relational Work,” University of California at Davis, May 1, 2010.
“The Economics of Intimacy.” Wilson College Faculty Fellows lunch, Princeton University March 2010.
“The future of cultural sociology.” Panel on the future of cultural sociology, American Sociological Association Meetings, August 2009.
“Travail et intimité.” Conference on Travail, métier, organisation: quelles métamorphoses? Collège de France, Paris, June 2009.
“Circuits in Economic Life.” Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, January 2009, and Department of Sociology, University of Milan, June 2009.
“Nuevas Tendencias en la Sociología Economica.” Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2009.
“Caring Everywhere.” Sociological Imagination Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, New School, May 2009.
“Economias Intimas.” Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2009.
Organizer and Moderator, Panel on “International Perspectives on Caring Labor.” Princeton 16
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University, March 2009.
Discussant, Noah Zatz, “Accounting for Care in the Age of Work.” Law and Public Affairs Program, Princeton University, March 2009.
“Relationships and Money.” 55 Plus, Princeton, March 2009.
“An aging ‘new economic sociology.’” Eastern Sociological Society, March 2009.
“Chuck Tilly and Mozart.” Contention, Change, and Explanation: A Conference in Honor of Charles Tilly, October 3-5, 2008, Columbia University, New York
“Money in Circuits.” Presented at NSF-DFG Research Conference "Contextualizing Economic Behavior," New York, August 2008.
“The Gender of Money.” American Sociological Association meetings, August 2008.
“Risky Exchanges.” Prepared for session on “Biotechnology, Bioethics, and the Law-Baby Markets: Money, Morality, and the Neopolitics of Choice.” The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, May 2008. Presented at the University of North Carolina Law School, April 2008.
“Care and Inequality.” Panel on “Diminishing Returns: Income Inequality in the United States,” Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, February 2008.
Selected Professional Service:
Affiliated Faculty, Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, Princeton University, 2016-.
Member, Visiting Committee, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, July 2015.
Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, 2014-
American Sociological Association, Jessie Bernard Award selection committee, 2013-2015.
Member, External Advisory Committee, Institute for Advanced Study, April 2011, September 2012.
Member, Selection Committee, Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2011.
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Member, Board of Trustees, Princeton University Press, 2010-2016.
Member, Membership Committee for Class III, Social and Behavioral Sciences, American Philosophical Society, 2010-2016.
Faculty Fellow, Wilson College, Princeton University, 2008- .
Member, Working Group on Childhood and Migration, 2006.
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for the Study of Social Organization, Princeton University, 2009-.
Member, Mainstreaming Team of Sociologists for Women in Society, 2009- 2011.
Member, Overseers’ Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 2008-2009.
Faculty Associate, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2000- ; Executive Committee 2007-2010; Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, 2005- .
Member, External Review Committees: Department of Sociology, Queens College (1993); Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (2007).
Scientific Committee, “Economie Informelle, Travail au Noir: Enjeux economiques et sociaux.” Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, Paris, September 2007.
Participant, planning meeting, The Feinberg Institute for the Comparative Study of Human Value and Public Life, March 2006.
Chair, Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2001-2.
Member, Advisory Boards: Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, 1986-87; Advisory Committee, Yale Sociology Department, 1997-98; Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University, 2002- ; Scientific Council, Paris School of Economics, 2006-2016; Scientific Council, School of Social Science, École Normale Supérieure, 2008-; Doctoral Program in Sociology, Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales and Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008-; International Advisory Committee, Norbert Lechner Lecture, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, 2010- ; Scientific Council, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, 2010-2019.
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Selected Editorial Boards: Studies in Historical Change, University of Kansas Press, 1988-91, Contemporary Sociology, 1991-1994, Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales, 1991-1994, Theory and Society, 1988 – 2005, Sociological Forum, 1993-1999, American Behavioral Scientist, 1996-; The Journal of Consumer Culture, 1999-; Sociologie et Sociétés 2002 ; Sociological Theory,1989-1991; 2005-2007; Cultural Sociology, 2006; Journal of Cultural Economy, 2007-2015; American Journal of Cultural Sociology 2013- ; Economic Sociology series, edited by Bai Gao, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2008-. Comité Científico, Colección Alternativas, Centro de Investigaciones Feministas, University of Oviedo, Spain, 2010-. Consultant, Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, Paula Fass, editor. New York: Macmillan, 2004; Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Jens Beckert and Milan Zavirovski, editors. London: Routledge, 2005, Editorial Board, Princeton Series in Cultural Sociology, 1996-. Scientific Committee, Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2014-, Culture and Economic Life book series, Stanford University Press, 2014- 2017
Languages: Read, speak, and write: English, Spanish, French, Italian.
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