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Elijah Anderson, Ph.D.
The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor
of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology

Office: 458 McNeil Building        
Professor Elijah Anderson University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299
Telephone: (215) 898-6721
Fax: (215) 573-1111
Email: eanderso@sas.upenn.edu
Full CV

Education:

1969  B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1972  M.A., University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL

1976  Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, Evanston, IL

Research:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Urban Inequality
  • Interactional Social Psychology
  • Race Relations
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Deviance and Social Control

Selected Publications:

2004 Anderson, Elijah
A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men
, 2nd edition, including a new preface and appendix, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2004 Anderson, Elijah and Fay Allard
“Ethnography, Examples of Social Science Methods Used in," with Fay Allard, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL MEASUREMENT, 2004.

2004 Anderson, Elijah
“The Cosmopolitan Canopy." ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, September 2004.

2003 Anderson, Elijah
“Jelly's Place: An Ethnographic Memoir" (Distinguished Lecture), SYMBOLIC INTERACTION, Volume 26, Number 2 (2003), 217-37.

2003 Anderson, Elijah and Nancy B. Hisrshinger, et al.
“A Case-Control Study of Female-Female Non-Intimate Violence in an Urban Area," with Nancy B. Hirschinger, et al., THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Volume 93, Number 7 (July 2003), 1098-1103.

2001 Anderson, Elijah and Douglas Massey
Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States
, Ed., With Douglas Massey, (Sage Publications).

1999 Anderson, Elijah
The Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence, And The Moral Life Of The Inner City, New York: W.W. Norton.

1990 Anderson, Elijah
Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

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