Richard Sennett
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(2010)
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January 1, 1943 Chicago, Illinois |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Academic advisors | David Riesman, Erik Erikson, Oscar Handlin |
| Known for | Studies of social ties in cities |
| Influences | Hannah Arendt |
| Spouse | Saskia Sassen |
Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world.
He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart, in 2008 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the Gerda Henkel Foundation of Düsseldorf, Germany, and in 2016 he received the European Essay Prize awarded by the Charles Veillon Foundation in Lausanne.
He has been married to sociologist Saskia Sassen since 1987.
Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, in a family of Russian emigres. As a child he trained in music, studying the cello and conducting, working with Claus Adam of the Juilliard String Quartet and the conductor Pierre Monteux. When a hand injury put an end to his musical career, he entered academia. He studied under David Riesman, Erik Erikson, and Oscar Handlin at Harvard, graduating with his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization in 1969. His intellectual life as an urbanist came into focus during the time he spent as a fellow of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT.
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