I am the LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
I study culture, cognition, networks, theory, consumption, institutions, and organization.
PhD in Sociology, University of Arizona, 2006.
BS in Psychology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1997.
I am also:
- Current co-editor of the journal Sociological Theory, with Z. Magubane, V. Patil and S. L. Crawley.
- Current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Mathematical Sociology
- Former chair of the American Sociology Association’s Section on Sociology of Culture. Current member of the Sociological Research Association.
- Current member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the journal Science.
- Current member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journals Poetics, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, and Theory & Social Inquiry.
- Current member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the the Stanford University Press Series on Culture and Economic Life, the Princeton University Press Series on Studies in Cultural Sociology, and the Oxford University Press Series on Social Network Mechanisms.
- Former co-editor of American Sociological Review.
olizardo@soc.ucla.edu