Omar Lizardo

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:

• Former co-editor of American Sociological Review.
• 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.
• Associate editor for the journal Discover Data.
• Current member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journals Poetics, and Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
and the book series Stanford University Press Series on Culture and Economic Life and Princeton University Press Series on Studies in Cultural Sociology.
• Current co-editor of the journal Sociological Theory, with Z. Magubane, V. Patil and S. L. Crawley.

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