Mitchell Duneier
Sociologist and ethnographer
Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer who teaches at Princeton University. He is the author of Ghetto.
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About Mitchell Duneier
Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer. He earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1992, taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then joined Princeton University, where he holds the Maurice P. During professorship in sociology. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His first book, Slim's Table, won the American Sociological Association's 1994 award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication. Sidewalk (1999) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award. In 2016 he published Ghetto with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and it was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the year. Duneier was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.