Peter Bearman

Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956) is an American sociologist. He is Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. He is widely cited in the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis and social networks. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. and a member of the National Academy of Sciences as of 2014.

He received his B.A. in sociology from Brown University in 1978, magna cum laude, and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in sociology from Harvard University.

After receiving his PhD, he was a lecturer at Harvard, followed by a move to the sociology department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he moved from assistant professor to full professor by 1996, before moving to Columbia University in 1997. He was chair of the department of sociology from 2001-2005 and chair of the department of statistics from 2007-2008. Between 2002 and 2003, he was then a visiting professor at the University of Genoa, Italy, the University of Munich.

In addition to being the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, he is currently the director of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences and director of INCITE, Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics both at Columbia University. He was also the co-founding director Global Health Research Center in Central Asia.

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