Academic Identity
I am assistant professor of Sociology at Barnard College. My book (and my dissertation research) is a comparative study of technology and futures trading, an ethnography of open outcry and electronic traders. My current research is on how art specialists price cultural commodities, particularly how categories and commensuration work in the secondary/resale fine arts market. I teach courses in economic sociology, organizations, and gender.
Professional Identity
I occasionally consult, focusing on organizational change, the future of technology and financial markets, and environmental markets. I do strategic assessments of markets, technology and organizational design, with qualitative and quantitative components. If you are interested, please email me.
Personal Identity
I grew up outside Chicago, and went to school(s) at Wesleyan University, USC, and Northwestern University. I currently live in New York, with a partner who is a marketing manager for an educational nonprofit. I love movies, like to cook, and I can do a mean lindy swing out. I am INTP.
March 18, 2008
Not about markets - photos!
Filed under: Ramble — Peter @ 4:19 pm
In Central Park, not far from where I live, I shot this photo - if it looks familiar, it’s because it’s been shot about a gazillion times by people looking over the West Side from the West 70s:
I ran across a lovely tutorial, which allowed me to transform that photo into this:
I’m proud of it, it’s possibly the coolest photo I’ve taken myself. That’s right - sociological, socially awkward, and on the rarest of occasions, artistic (but no whimpster, thank you very much).
Photo credits? Me. Me. Me.
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