Most of my mostly up-to-date (May 2020) CV is below. It's not web-optimised and pretty, but it should tell you whatever it is that you'd like to know about me without having to click a link to view a file. If you'd like the PDF version, I'm happy to email it to you.Academic positions August 2016 onwards Assistant Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA. January 2017 onwards, Associate Editor, British Journal of Sociology, London School of Economics June 2013 – July 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sociology, London School of Economics
Education 2013 PhD in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 2007 M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley 2000 B.A. in Sociology & Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Peer Reviewed journal Publications 2017 “Mind the Gap: Financial London and the Regional Class Pay Gap.” Friedman, Sam, and Daniel Laurison. The British Journal of Sociology 68, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 474–511. 2017 “Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labour Markets.” Kate Oakley, Daniel Laurison, Dave O’Brien, and Sam Friedman American Behavioral Scientist, June 2, 2017. 2017 “Are Postgraduate Qualifications the ‘New Frontier of Social Mobility’?” Paul Wakeling and Daniel Laurison. The British Journal of Sociology 68, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 533–55. 2016 “The Class Pay Gap in Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations.” Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman. American Sociological Review 81, no. 4: 668–95. 2016 “Social Class and Political Engagement in the United States.” Sociology Compass 10, no. 8: 684–97. 2016 “‘Like Skydiving without a Parachute’ How Class Origin Shapes Occupational Trajectories in British Acting.” Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, and Dave O’Brien. Sociology, February 28, 2016. 2016 “Are the Creative Industries Meritocratic? An Analysis of the 2014 British Labour Force Survey.” Dave O’Brien, Daniel Laurison, Andrew Miles and Sam Friedman. Cultural Trends 25 (2): 116–31 2015 “The Willingness to State an Opinion: Inequality, Don't Know Response, and Political Participation.” Sociological Forum 30 (4): 925-48. 2015 “The Right to Speak: Differences in Political Engagement among the British Elite.” The Sociological Review 63 (2): 349–72. 2015 “Breaking the ‘Class’ Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain’s Elite Occupations.” Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, and Andrew Miles. The Sociological Review 63 (2): 259–89.
Books, Book Chapters, Invited articles 2022 The Room Where it Happens: How the Politics Industry Shapes American Democracy. Under contract with Beacon Press. 2019 The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to Be Privileged. Friedman, Sam and Daniel Laurison. UK: Policy Press; US: University of Chicago. (Will be published in January 2019.) 2019 “On Culture and Inequality: Distinction, Omnivorousness, Status and Class.” British Journal of Sociology 70: 780-783. (Introduction to a special section of the journal that I edited.) 2017 “The Anatomy of the British Economic ‘Elite.’” Savage, Mike, Hecht, Katharina, Johs Hjellbrekke, Niall Cunningham, and Daniel Laurison. In New Directions in Elite Studies, edited by Olav Korsnes, Johan Heilbron, Johs Hjellbrekke, Felix Bühlmann, and Mike Savage. Routledge. 2015 Social Class in the 21st Century. Mike Savage, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Mark Taylor, Niall Cunningham, Helene Snee, Fiona Devine, Andrew Miles, Paul Wakeling. Penguin Publishing. 2015 “Espace Britannique des Styles de Vie et Classes Sociales.” Mike Savage, Brigitte Le Roux, Johs Hjellbrekke and Daniel Laurison. Chapter 8 in La Méthodologie de Pierre Bourdieu en Action - Espace Culturel, Espace Social et Analyse des Données, edited by Frederic Lebaron and Brigitte Le Roux, Dunod Publishers. 2015 “On Social Class, Anno 2014.” Mike Savage, Fiona Devine, Niall Cunningham, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee, and Mark Taylor. Sociology: 49 (6): 1011-30 2014 “The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2008.” Michael Hout and Daniel Laurison. In Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective edited by David Grusky. Boulder CO: Westview Press. 2014 “Positions and Position-Takings Among Political Producers: The Field of American Political Consultants.” In Bourdieu and Data Analysis: Methodological Principles and Practice, edited by Michael Grenfell and Frédéric Lebaron, Peter Lang Publishers. 2013 “The Distribution of Political Opinions in the United States” (translated into French) in Trente ans après La Distinction, edited by Philippe Coulangeon and Julien Duval, Editions La Découverte. 2012 “Political Competence in the United States.” Praktiske Grunde 4: 43-56.
Other Writing & communications Work in Progress The Room Where It Happens: How Political Professionals Understand American Campaigns book proposal & draft manuscript. “Neither Mercenaries nor Masterminds: Campaign Staff and Consultants in American National Elections” Working Paper posted at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2sb9m/ “Local Context and African-American Voting” with Hana Brown.
Published Working Papers & Reports With Sam Friedman and Lindsey Macmillan, “Social mobility, the class pay gap and intergenerational worklessness: new insights from the Labour Force Survey”, Social Mobility Commission, 2017. With Sam Friedman, “Introducing the Class Ceiling: Social Mobility and Britain’s Elite Occupations.” LSE Sociology working paper series, 2015. With Jerome Karabel, “An Exceptional Nation? American Political Values in Comparative Perspective.” Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2012. With Jerome Karabel, “Outlier Nation: American Exceptionalism and the Quality of Life in the United States.” Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2011. With Steven Lawry and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, “Liberal Education and Civic Engagement.” Report created for the Ford Foundation’s Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program, 2006.
Invited Blog Posts Laurison, Daniel. 2018. “On Fights on Scholar-Activism.” Scatterplot (blog), August 24, 2019. https://scatter.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/on-fights-on-scholar-activism/. Laurison, Daniel. 2018. “Class and Participation in Movement and Electoral Politics.” On the Mobilizing Ideas blog. May 3, 2018. https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/class-and-participation-in-movement-and-electoral-politics/. With Sam Friedman, “The class origin pay gap: Seeing a class ceiling” On the ASA’s Work in Progress blog. September 30th, 2017. https://workinprogress.oowsection.org/2017/09/30/the-class-origin-pay-gap-seeing-a-class-ceiling/ With Dan Hirschman, “Making Voter Pie” On Scatterplot blog. February 21st, 2017. https://scatter.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/making-voter-pie/ “Whose Democracy? The Class Divide in Political Participation in the United States” On the Policy Trajectories blog. May, 2016. http://policytrajectories.asa-comparative-historical.org/2016/05/whose-democracy-the-class-divide-in-political-participation-in-the-united-states-1/ “Three Myths and Facts about the Great British Class Survey.” On the Sociological Review Blog, June 18, 2015. http://www.thesociologicalreview.com/information/blog/three-myths-and-facts-about-the-great-british-class-survey.html. “’Poshness Tests’ and the Class Ceiling: There is Much More Research to be Done” On the LSE British Politics & Policy blog, with Sam Friedman, June 16, 2015. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/poshness-tests-and-the-class-ceiling/ “The Great British Class Survey now available from the UK Data Service.” On the UK Data Archive blog, with Mike Savage, April 13, 2015. http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/the-great-british-class-survey-now-available-from-the-uk-data-service/ “Introducing the Class Ceiling.” On the LSE British Politics & Policy blog, with Sam Friedman, March 31, 2015. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/introducing-the-class-ceiling/ “Inequality and the Electoral System.” On the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) blog, April 3, 2014. http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2014/04/03/inequality-electoral-system/
Courses taught Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College First-Year Seminar: The Working Class and the Politics of Whiteness (Fall 2019) Introduction to Research Methods (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019) First-Year Seminar: The Presidential Election (Fall 2016) Class Matters: Privilege, Poverty and Power (Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019) Honors Seminar: Distinction (Fall 2017, Fall 2019) Foundations of Sociology (Spring 2018, Fall 2018) American Democracy: Political Participation in the 2018 Midterm Elections (Fall 2018) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, London School of Economics Culture, Class and Politics MA-level course. Researching London 2nd-year undergraduate research methods course Multiple Correspondence Analysis one-week intensive course for post-grads & researchers. Instructor, UC Berkeley Social Inequality Sociology of the 2008 Presidential Elections Political Sociology
Honors, Fellowships and Grants 2019 Social Science Research Council Anxieties of Democracy program Identity, Community and Participation Research Grant, $9095. 2017 Best Article Award, American Sociological Association’s Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility 2017 Swarthmore College Lang Center Engaged Research Faculty Grant 2017 Swarthmore College Digital Humanities Course Development Grant 2012 Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley 2012 Political Networks Conference Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2011 – 2012 Departmental Research Grant, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley 2011 – 2012 Leo Lowenthal Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley 2010 – 2012 Nelson Polsby Memorial Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley 2010 – 2011 Blumer Teaching Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley 2010 – 2011 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 2009 – 2010 Mike Synar Fellowship, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley 2009 – 2010 Center for Race and Gender Graduate Research Grant, UC Berkeley 2008 – 2009 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2007 Summer Research Grant, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 1996 – 2000 Eugene Lang Social Change Scholar, Swarthmore College invited talks 2020 “The Class Ceiling – Why it Pays to Be Privileged Keynote, Unintended Consequences Conference, Warsaw Poland (given remotely)
2019 “The Class Ceiling – Why it Pays to Be Privileged” Sociology Department, Brown University Sociology Department, University of Maryland Sociology Department, Brandeis University Book Launch, LSE Public Lectures, London Book Launch, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Causality Event, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
2018 “Whose Democracy? Inequalities in Political Participation” Swarthmore Discussion Group
2018 “The Class Ceiling – Why it Pays to Be Privileged” Sociology Department, Cornell University (with Sam Friedman) Sociology Department, NYU (with Sam Friedman) Sociology Department, Columbia University (with Sam Friedman) Sociology Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China University of Pennsylvania Education & Inequality Mini-Conference
2018 “Neither Geniuses nor Gurus – Campaign Professionals in American National Elections” UNC Chapel Hill Culture & Politics Workshop
2016 “The Class Ceiling in Britain’s Elite Occupations” (with Sam Friedman) Department of Sociology, Oxford University Department of Social Science, University of London Sciences Po, Paris Bridge Group, London
2015 “The Class Ceiling in Britain’s Elite Occupations” (with Sam Friedman): Department of Social Policy & Intervention, Oxford University. UK Government’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
2014 “Who You Know, What You Have, and Who You Are: Social Networks and Class Identity in the United Kingdom” Royal Statistical Society, London. Department of Quantitative Social Science at the Institute of Education, University of London. |