Margaret Somers | |
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Native name | Margaret R. Somers |
Born | December 3rd, 1949 Princeton, New Jersey |
Residence | U.S.A. |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986 |
Influences | Karl Polanyi |
Academic work | |
Notable works | Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge 2008) |
Margaret R. Somers is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan She is the recipient of the Inaugural Lewis A. Coser Award for Innovation and Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology, Somers' work specializes in historical, political, economic, and cultural sociology and social theory.
Somers receive a MA from Harvard University in Sociology in 1981, and a Ph.D from the same university in 1986.