Mustafa Emirbayer
| Mustafa Emirbayer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Detroit, Michigan |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Davis (B.A.) Harvard University (M.A.) (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nathan Glazer |
| Other academic advisors | Theda Skocpol, Daniel Bell, David Riesman |
| Doctoral students | Mimi Sheller, Leonardo Avritzer, Jacques Berlinerblau, Dana Fisher |
| Other notable students | Matthew Desmond, Shamus Khan |
| Known for | social network analysis, relational sociology |
| Influences | Pierre Bourdieu, Emile Durkheim, Charles Tilly |
| Notable awards | Lewis A. Coser Award, Clifford Geertz Award |
Mustafa Emirbayer is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his theoretical contributions to social network analysis, and is "one of the most vocal advocates of the relational approach in the social sciences." In 2009 he won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting from the American Sociological Association.
Emirbayer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to parents of Turkish and Crimean Tatar descent. He also spent part of his childhood in Santa Barbara, California, and his high school years in Mexico City, Mexico. He attended the University of California, Davis and received his BA in psychology (with minors in English and History) in 1980. He originally enrolled in the graduate program in psychology at the University of Michigan, where he first took coursework from the sociologist Charles Tilly. He soon realized that he wanted to study sociology as he felt psychology at the time neglected culture, institutions and history. Emirbayer went on to receive his MA in 1985 and PhD in 1989 from the Harvard University, both in sociology. His dissertation was "Moral Education in American, 1830–1990" under the direction of Nathan Glazer (chair), Daniel Bell, David Riesman, and Theda Skocpol.
Emirbayer attended Harvard shortly after the "revolution" in social network analysis, and later at The New School, along with colleagues Charles Tilly and Harrison White, he played a key role in The New York School of relational sociology.
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