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Eviatar Zerubavel

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1976

Mailing Address:
Department of Sociolgy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Office: Lucy Stone Hall, A343
Office Phone: 732-445-5740

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Professor Zerubavel’s main areas of interest are cognitive sociology and the sociology of time. His publications include Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 1979); Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life (University of Chicago Press, 1981. Paperback – University of California Press, 1985. Japanese – 1984. Italian – 1985); The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week (Free Press, 1985. Paperback – University of Chicago Press, 1989. Korean – forthcoming. Listed among Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books – 1985); The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life (Free Press, 1991. Paperback – University of Chicago Press, 1993); Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America (Rutgers University Press, 1992. Transaction – 2003); Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology (Harvard University Press, 1997. Paperback – 1999. Norwegian – 2000); The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books (Harvard University Press, 1999); Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (University of Chicago Press, 2003. Paperback – 2004. Italian – 2005); and The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2006). Professor Zerubavel served from 1992 to 2001 and is serving again since 2006 as director of the Rutgers sociology graduate program. In 2000-01 he served as Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2003 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches graduate courses in cognitive sociology, time and memory, and sociological theory. He is currently writing a book on the social organization of ancestry and descent.

 

 


   
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