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Biography
Sudhir Venkatesh's research is rooted in ethnographic investigation of urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. His book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006), an ethnographic study of illegal economies in Chicago, received the C. Wright Mills Award (2007) and a Best Book Award from Slate.com (2006). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000), explored the social organization, moral universe, and history of a Chicago housing development, The Robert Taylor Homes. His most recent book, Gang Leader for a Day, is a reported memoir (Penguin Press, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Youth, Globalization and the Law (Stanford University Press 2006) and Director of the Youth and Globalization Collaborative Research Network at the Social Science Research Council. He is currently completing a long-term project on sex work in New York and Chicago with the economist Steven Levitt.
Other ongoing research projects include a study of immigration and settlement in the suburbs of Paris, an in-depth study of re-entry among the formerly incarcerated in New York, and a ten-year documentation of transformation of public housing in Chicago. His documentary film "Dislocation," follows families as they relocate from condemned public housing developments. The documentary aired on PBS in 2005. For more information on the film and other activites and events: http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/
A frequent guest blogger on the New York Times' Freakonomics website, Venkatesh is also featured on Slate.com.
Venkatesh received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University (1996-1999). He is currently Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy and the Charles H. Revson Fellowship Program
Current CV
Selected Publications
Evan Rosen and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. A "Perversion" of Choice: Sex Work Offers Just Enough in Chicago's Urban Ghetto. Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Alexandra K. Murphy, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. "Vice Careers: The changing contours of sex work in New York City," Qualitative Sociology, June 2006
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. "Chicago’s Pragmatic Planners: American Sociology and the Myth of Community," Social Science History, 25:2 (summer 2001) Steven Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. "An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2000 | |
