Christopher Bail

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Christopher A. Bail is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research compares the integration of Muslims in the U.S. and U.K. since 9/11 through 1) analysis of elites in the policy making process; 2) network analysis of social movements; and, 3) longitudinal qualitative interviews. His previous studies of symbolic boundaries and anti-racism have appeared in the American Sociological Review and Revue Europeenne de Migrations Internationales. He is the recipient of grants from the German Marshall Fund, the National Science Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and the Center for American Political Studies. He was the recipient of the 2007 Aage B. Sorensen Award and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. Bail holds an A.M. from Harvard University, an A.B from Bowdoin College, and was a visiting PhD Student at The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris) and the University of Amsterdam in 2005. Before coming to Harvard, he interned at the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva, Switzerland. For the Summer and Fall of 2008 he will be a Visiting PhD Student at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

07/23/2008

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Culture, Immigration/Citizenship, Social Movements, Fuzzy-Set/Relational Methods

Previous Degrees

A.M. Harvard University; Visiting Scholar: Fondation National des Sciences Politiques (Paris); A.B. Bowdoin College

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Contact

617-496-5794 (FAX)

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