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Nancy T. Ammerman | Professor

Emily Barman | Associate Professor

Jeff Coulter | Professor

Susan Eckstein | Professor

Julian Go | Associate Professor

Liah Greenfeld | Professor

Alya Guseva | Associate Professor

Stephen Kalberg | Associate Professor

Nazli Kibria | Associate Professor

Daniel Monti | Professor

Sigrun Olafsdottir | Assistant Professor

Laurel Smith-Doerr | Associate Professor

John Stone | Professor

David Swartz | Assistant Professor

Peter Yeager | Associate Professor

 

Part-time Faculty

Patricia Rieker | Visiting Professor

Elizabeth Markson | Adjunct Professor

 

Emeritus Faculty

Brigitte Berger

Peter Berger

Sally Whelan Cassidy

Adelaide M. Cromwell

Mark G. Field

Murray Melbin

S.M Miller

George Psathas

James Teele

Paule Verdet

Eugene Walter

 

Senior Teaching Fellows

Cara Bowman | Economic Sociology

Courtney Feldscher | The Workplace

Itai Vardi | Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations

 

Daniel Monti
Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina (1975)

Sociology 283 | 617.353.6609 | monti@bu.edu

Office Hours for Spring 2009:TTh 8-9:15, 3:30-4:30

BIO AND RESEARCH
Dan Monti has been involved in an ongoing study of American civic culture as it is expressed in cities across the United States. He has also been working with minority and ethnic businessmen and women in the Boston area in an attempt to develop new businesses in minority communities and measure the impact of economic development programs.

Click here for more on Professor Monti's recent project.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The American City: A Social and Cultural History. (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999).

Wannabe: Gangs in Suburbs and Schools. (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1994).

"Gangs" The Oxford Companion to United States History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

"Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Social Stability of Urban Neighborhoods" with Michael Goodman. Journal of Urban Affairs. Volume 21, No.1, 1999, pp. 101-129

"Ethnic Economics, Affirmative Action, and Mining Cultural Capital". The American Sociologist. Winter 1997, pp. 101-112

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