Frederick Wherry is an American sociologist. He is the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, the 2021 president-elect of the Eastern Sociological Society, and is also the Director of the Dignity and Debt Network, a partnership between the Social Science Research Council and Princeton.[1]
Frederick F. Wherry | |
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| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.) Princeton University (M.P.A.) (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Economic sociology, relational sociology, cultural sociology, |
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| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Alejandro Portes, Viviana A. Zelizer |
Wherry earned a doctorate from Princeton University in 2004 and a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) in 2000.[2] While pursuing the MPA, Wherry was awarded the Wardell Robinson Moore Award for his work on diversity and inclusion.
Wherry taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Yale University before joining the Princeton faculty. He has also served as a consultant for The World Bank in the Office of the Vice-President for East Asia and the Pacific, Social Policy and Governance.
Wherry has contributed opinion pieces to The New York Times.[3] In the fall of 2020, he began teaching a free, public course via YouTube, entitled "Sociology 102: Police Violence, #BlackLivesMatter and the Covid-19 Pandemic."[4]
Selected publications
edit- 2019. Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship (with Kristin Seefeldt and Anthony Alvarez)[5]
- 2017. Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (Edited by Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry, and Viviana A. Zelizer)
- 2011. The Philadelphia Barrio: The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation[6]
References
edit- ^ "Frederick Wherry | Department of Sociology". sociology.princeton.edu.
- ^ "Frederick F. Wherry *04 S*02 | Department of Sociology". sociology.princeton.edu.
- ^ Wherry, Frederick (October 29, 2015). "Opinion | Payday Loans Cost the Poor Billions, and There's an Easy Fix" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Sociology 102: Police Violence, #BlackLivesMatter and the Covid-19 Pandemic". Department of Sociology.
- ^ "New Book: Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship | RSF". www.russellsage.org.
- ^ "The Philadelphia Barrio" – via press.uchicago.edu.
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