The Internal Board serves as the governance committee to which the Center reports on an annual basis. The committee has the authority to review and advise the Center on its budget, calendar of events, and progress in general.

Senior scholars from sociology, economics, management, organizations, and the broader social sciences who are advancing the study of Economy & Society.

Junior scholars from sociology, economics, management, organizations, and the broader social sciences who are making contributions to the study of Economy & Society.

CSES Faculty Affiliates play an important role at the Cornell University and bring to CSES diverse research and teaching interests related to economy and society research.

The External Board consists of scholars who have all made important contributions to economic sociology. Their diversity illustrates an important principle of the Center: input from economics as well as sociology is necessary to drive economic sociology forward.

Victor Nee

Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor & Founding Director of CSES

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
theory;
market transitions from state socialism;
comparative institutional analysis;
immigration and ethnic/racial inequality

Richard Swedberg

Professor Emeritus

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
law and economy;
sociological theory;
classical sociological theories;
Schumpeter and Weber

Michael Macy

Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Collective action;
social control;
self-organizing group dynamics;
cognitive game theory;
social exchange theory;
computer simulation;
laboratory experiments

Richard Alba

Distinguished Professor

Sociology

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Quantitative methods;
race, ethnicity and migration;
urban sociology

Howard Aldrich

Kenan Professor and Department Chair

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Entrepreneurship;
evolutionary social science;
organizations, occupations, and work;
economic sociology;
inequality

Delia Baldassarri

Professor of Sociology

New York University

Economic sociology;
political sociology;
social networks;
analytical sociology

Kaushik Basu

C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

Cornell University

Economic development;
economic theory;
industrial organization;
political economy

Alaka Basu

Visiting Scholar

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Reproductive health;
gender and development;
child health and mortality;
social demography

Mabel Berezin

Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Comparative and historical sociology;
culture;
political institutions and ideologies;
theory;
qualitative methods;
economy and society

Mary C. Brinton

Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

Sociology

Harvard University

Gender inequality;
labor markets and employment;
contemporary Japan;
social demography

Diane Burton

Professor

ILR Studies

Cornell University

Organizations;
labor markets;
entrepreneurship

Benjamin Cornwell

Professor and Chair

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Social networks among individuals and organizations

Daniel DellaPosta

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Pennsylvania State University

Social networks;
economic sociology;
political sociology;
computational methods

Paul DiMaggio

Professor of Sociology

Sociology

New York University

Culture;
social structure;
media and inequality;
organizations

Lucas Drouhot

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Utrecht University

International migration;
social stratification;
social networks

Emily Erikson

Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship and Associate Professor

Yale University

Social networks;
economic development;
comparative historical sociology;
theory;
globalization

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Professor of Sociology

Princeton University

Migration;
economic restructuring;
women in the labor force;
race and ethnicity

Neil Fligstein

Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor

University of California at Berkeley

Economic sociology;
organizations;
methodology and statistics;
political sociology

Robert Frank

Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management & Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

Cornell University

Applied economics

Francis Fukuyama

Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow

Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University

Development and international politics

Filiz Garip

Professor & Former Director of CSES

Department of Sociology

Princeton University

Sociology;
migration;
economic sociology;
inequality;
social networks

Mark Granovetter

Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences

Stanford University

Economic sociology;
industrial organization

Dan Hirschman

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
organizations;
race & racism;
social theory;
science studies;
higher education;
climate change;
finance

Hilary Holbrow

Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society

East Asian Languages and Cultures Department

Indiana University, Bloomington

Japanese society;
work and organizations;
gender;
race and ethnicity;
immigration

Håkan Holm

Professor of Economics

School of Economics and Management

Lund University

Competition;
complexity;
decision-making;
game theory;
microeconomics;
welfare economics

Paul Ingram

Kravis Professor of Business

Columbia Business School

Intergovernmental organizations on foreign direct investment and democratization;
the structure and efficacy of managers' professional networks in China and the United States;
the effects of networks and institutions on the evolution of the Glasgow shipbuilding industry

Ravi Kanbur

T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics

Department of Applied Economics and Management and Department of Economics

Cornell University

Public economics;
development economics;
conceptual, empirical, and policy analysis;
risk taking;
inequality;
poverty;
structural adjustment;
political economy

Peter Katzenstein

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies

Department of Government

Cornell University

Security policy and political economy;
relation between international and domestic politics;
Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia

Jennifer Lee

Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences

Department of Sociology

Columbia University

Race, ethnicity & migration;
inequality;
cultural sociology

Karen Levy

Assistant Professor

Information Science

Cornell University

Surveillance;
monitoring;
law;
social impacts of technology;
organizations

Qi Li

Assistant Professor of Management

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Management;
corporate social responsibility;
innovation

Justin Yifu Lin

Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics

New Structural Economics

Peking University

Structural economics;
China’s economy

Siegwart Lindenberg

Professor of Cognitive Sociology

University of Groningen

Microfoundations and social rationality;
theory of groups and community;
theories of governance

Zhilin Liu

Associate Professor

School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University

Urban Policy and Governance;
Housing Policy;
Urban Social Geography;
Sustainable Development;
New Institutionalism Theory

Lisha Liu

Assistant Professor of Organization and Management

Antai Business School

Jiaotong University, Shanghai

Economic sociology;
organizations;
social networks

Vida Maralani

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Inequality;
demography;
health;
education;
gender;
quantitative methods

James March

Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management, Emeritus

Stanford University (1928-2018)

Risk taking, decision making, learning, and leadership in organizations such as business firms, public bureaucracies, and educational institutions

Barnaby Marsh

Partner

Saint Partners Philanthropy Services

Philanthropy;
economic theory;
psychology;
risk taking;
decision strategies;
evolutionary biology

Robert K. Merton

Special Service Professor

Columbia University (1910-2003)

Development of notable concepts such as "unintended consequences", the "reference group", "role strain", "role model", and "self-fulfilling prophecy"

Mario Molina

Postdoctoral Associate

Social Science Division

New York University, Abu Dhabi

Cultural integration;
social structure

Douglass North

Professor Emeritus

University of Washington (1920-2015)

New institutional economics;
economic hostory;
economic development

John F. Padgett

Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science

University of Chicago

Organizational theory;
co-evolution of states and markets;
American politics;
mathematical models

Barum Park

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Political sociology;
social networks;
social mobility;
quantitative and computational methods

Alejandro Portes

Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus)

Princeton University

Social stratification and status attainment in Latin America;
migration and immigrant communities related to the U.S., Cuba, Mexico, and Spain;
economic sociology;
design of government institutions

Walter W. Powell

Jacks Family Professor of Education, and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University

Graduate School of Education

Stanford University

Organizational behavior

James Robinson

Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

Harris School of Public Policy

University of Chicago

Political economy;
economic development;
political development;
comparative

Martin Ruef

Jack and Pamela Egan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship

Duke University

Economic history;
entrepreneurship;
labor;
organizational sociology;
race relations;
segregation;
slavery;
social networks

Jeffrey Sachs

Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development

Columbia University

Development economics;
health and education;
international macroeconomics

Wesley Sine

Professor

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Cornell University

Entrepreneurship and innovation;
global business;
management;
organizational behavior;
strategy;
sustainable business;
technology strategy

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology

Harvard University

American politics;
political sociology;
modern welfare states;
comparative historical sociology

Neil Smelser

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

University of California at Berkeley (1930-2017)

Sociological theory;
economic sociology;
collective behavior;
sociology of education;
social change;
comparative methods

David Strang

Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Political sociology;
organizations;
models and methods for dynamic processes

Steven Strogatz

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Cornell University

Applied mathematics;
interdisciplinary work in nonlinear science and complex systems

Laura Tach

Associate Professor

Cornell University

Poverty, inequality, & stratification;
urban sociology;
family sociology;
social policy;
social demography;
mixed methods

Anne Tsui

Professor Emeritus of Management

Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business

Organizational culture and leadership;
employment relationships;
guanxi network in Chinese context;
managerial reputational effectiveness

Duncan Watts

Stevens University Professor

Annenberg School for Communications

University of Pennsylvania

Social networks;
collective dynamics;
social dynamics

Kim Weeden

Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Social inequality and poverty;
labor markets;
gender inquality;
work and occupations

Erik Wengström

Professor of Economics

Economics

Lund University

Behavioral economics;
decision making;
health economics;
experimental economics

Harrison White

Giddings Professor of Sociology Emeritus

Columbia University

Sociological theory;
economic sociology;
collective behavior;
sociology of education;
social change;
comparative methods

Martin K. Whyte

John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus

Sociology

Harvard University

Comparative sociology;
sociology of the family;
sociology of development;
the sociological study of contemporary China;
the study of post-communist transitions

Yu Xie

Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology

Princeton University

Social stratification;
demography;
statistical methods

Christopher Yenkey

Associate Professor of International Business

Sonoco International Business Department

University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business

Economic sociology;
organizational theory

Cristobal Young

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

Cornell University

Economic sociology;
stratification;
quantitative methodology

Viviana Zelizer

Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology

Princeton University

Interpersonal connections and the production, distribution, consumption, and transfer of economic value

Arnout van de Rijt

Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences

European University Institute

Collective action;
cumulative advantage;
experimental sociology;
mathematical sociology;
research methods;
social networks;
quantitative analysis;
network analysis

“Economic sociology is a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social economic action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences.”— Max Weber