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.
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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.
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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.
April 1, 2008
It must be you…
Filed under: Markets — Peter @ 10:56 pm
An article by Richard Florida notes large disparities between the numbers of single men and single women in urban locations across the US. Let the conforming to already-existing gendered assumptions begin!
As you can see, if you are looking for a single man, he’s on the West Coast - if you are looking for single women, they’re on the East Coast. Of course, this says nothing about who they are, sexual orientation, and the like. Now, sure, I can go into the sociological implications of life course decision-making, job opportunities, gender differences and similarities. But really, I just want to say that if you are a straight woman in New York looking for a straight man, you’re kind of S.O.L. If you’re that same woman looking for a straight man in LA (though many more men in LA are gay than comparables elsewhere) or Dallas or Denver or Seattle, it must be you. If you are a straight man looking for a straight woman in NYC and not succeeding, you aren’t working hard enough.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Sorta explains how some of us win the match.com lottery. *self high-five*
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Sigh.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Yes Davin, I assure you, that’s all about the math
Plus, if you’ll recall, an early intervention by yours truly that 4:20 culture is not a deal-breaker…
Jenn, I’m telling you: Crazy. Blind. Date. Why dip a toe in the water when you can jump in face-first?
April 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am
This very thing came to mind when I saw Bethenney on “Real Housewives of NYC” begging to procreate with a guy who looked and acted like a turtle, and was divorced with two kids.
Turns out, he had a cushy Wall Street job he lost as a result of appearing on the show.
Not that Bethenney is any prize. But she must want a guy with money, so she has to beg turtles or do without.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Bethenney deserves her own ktel post, IMHO. I have many things to say about her, the turtle, her escape to Miami, and her relationship with her father, none of which will interest Peter’s readership.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
ktel - this comment spins out in so many directions I don’t know where to start. Maybe with “when I saw Bethenney on ‘Real Housewives of NYC’”. I’m not a big watcher of the show, though of course I get the premise. Educate me. Living in New York has made me feel something icky, and my chair put her finger on it when she noted that this is a place where you are pushed to think of yourself as relatively poor, always needing more money. It makes me ick.
JL - we treat markets here like Bourdieu treats capital: real estate markets, financial markets, dating markets, cultural markets. ‘Peter’s readership’ is something like the 3 of you in this comment thread…This isn’t the show with the person who deals with 30 and 40something men who are hipster wannabes?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
PL: please don’t confuse Real Housewives of New York City with Millionaire Matchmaker.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Hey, I’m a reader, too. But this conversation is now way beyond me. ‘Fixie of hipsters,’ though, is something I’m definitely going to be weaving in somewhere.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Yes, once the conversation turns to Bravo shows, it does become pretty esoteric.
Let’s keep it where it should be: to blame straight women in California who can’t find love for their own lack of success.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I discovered that I was putting an additional “e” in Bethenny’s name. She’s a bit grabby, though, so I think she wouldn’t mind.
I agree that an entire ktel post should be devoted to RHONYC. I will commence to work on it. I might even be able to work in “fixie of hipsters” in a discussion of that time the Countess went downtown (that sounds wrong) to see da indie rock show with her headband-adorned niece. I kept hoping it would turn all “After Hours” on her, but no.