Benjamin Cornwell Postdoctoral Fellow Center on Demography and Economics of Aging NORC and University of Chicago Curriculum Vita (pdf)

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago (August 2007)

            Areas of Specialization: Social networks; health; aging; organizations

            Dissertation Title: Physical Function and Social Action: Implications for Social Connectedness 

M.A.,   Sociology, The Ohio State University (2001)

B.A.,    (Magna Cum Laude), Sociology, University of Cincinnati (2000)

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Selected Publications

“The Social Connectedness of Older Adults: A National Profile.” (with Edward O. Laumann and L. Phillip Schumm)

American Sociological Review, forthcoming in 2008.

“Access to Expertise as a Form of Social Capital: An Examination of Race- and Class-Based Disparities in Network

Ties to Experts.” (with Erin York) Sociological Perspectives, forthcoming in 2008. 

“The Protestant Sect Credit Machine: Social Capital and the Rise of Capitalism.”

            In press, Journal of Classical Sociology.

“Labor Markets and Organizations: A Screening Theory of Hiring Networks and Racially Homogenous

            Employment.” (with David Jacobs) Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25:39-55. (2007)

“Status on Trial: Social Characteristics and Influence in the Jury Room.” (with Erin York) Social Forces

85:455-77. (2006)

“Union Members and Voluntary Associations: Membership Overlap as a Case of Organizational Embeddedness.”

            (with Jill Ann Harrison) American Sociological Review 69:862-81. (2004)

 “Bonded Fatalities: The Effects of Social Bond Strength on Fatality Risk in a Fire Evacuation.” The Sociological

            Quarterly 44:617-38. (2003)

“The Dynamic Properties of Social Support: Decay, Growth, and Staticity, and Their Effects on Adolescent

            Depression.” Social Forces 81:955-81. (2003)

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Additional Research Material

Research Plan (pdf)

Dissertation Research (abstract – pdf)

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Teaching Experience

2006                Teaching Intern – Donald N. Levine

University of Chicago

                        Social Science 10053: Classics of Social and Political Thought III (syllabus - pdf)

Statement of Teaching Philosophy (pdf)