Viviana Zelizer
| Viviana Zelizer | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 19, 1946 |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater |
Rutgers University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A.) (Ph.D.) |
| Academic advisors | Sigmund Diamond, Bernard Barber, David Rothman, Robert K. Merton |
| Known for | Economic sociologyrelational sociologycultural sociologyhistorical sociology |
Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, is a sociologist and the Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is a prominent economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to the economy. A constant theme in her work is economic valuation of the sacred, as found in such contexts as life insurance settlements and economic transactions between sexual intimates. In 2006 she was elected to the PEN American Center and in 2007 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Viviana Zelizer (born January 19, 1946) was the daughter of S. Julio Rotman and Rosita Weill de Rotman, and raised in Argentina, where she attend University of Buenos Aires and studied law for two years. She immigrated to the United States in 1967 when she married her husband, Rabbi Gerald L. Zelizer, currently the rabbi of Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen, New Jersey.
She attend Rutgers University where she graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in 1971. She went on to graduate school in sociology at Columbia University where she received an M.Phil and an M.A. in 1974. In 1977, Zelizer received a Ph.D. in sociology. Zelizer identifies four scholars at Columbia that influenced her intellectual career: Sigmund Diamond, Bernard Barber, David Rothman, and Robert K. Merton. Diamond (whose PhD was in history) and Barber were her primary mentors in sociology, and Rothman in the history department. She states that Merton was always present, but at a distance. Zelizer's unique approach to sociology by way of social history was an initial burden, as she recounts:
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