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Peter Levin
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
Sociology, Barnard College
URL:
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Biography
Peter Levin is an assistant professor in the Sociology department at Barnard College. His main research areas are work, gender, and economic sociology. Levin is currently working on a book examining the institutional changes generated in futures markets by the recent shift from face-to-face trading to trading via decentralized electronic screens. The specific questions he asks are, how are information, identities (and masculinity in particular), and discretion reconfigured when fundamental technological changes take place? The broader questions are about how to should think about markets as “work” rather than as abstract mechanisms to allocate resources. A second project looks at secondary markets in fine Art, focusing on how communities of expert appraisers and specialists transform cultural value into price. Levin received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2004. | |
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