Peter Bearman
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Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956)[1] is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks. He is the Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, the President of The American Assembly at Columbia University, as well as the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE). He is also the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and co-founding director of Columbia's Oral History Master of Arts Program, the first oral history masters program in the country. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008,[1] a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014,[2] a Guggenheim Fellow in 2016,[3] and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.[4]
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) Golden Goose Award (2016) |
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Discipline | Sociology |
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