Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer born in India.

Venkatesh moved with his family to Southern California suburb of Irvine.cite web | url=http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/themorningread/article_2034696.php | author=Rivera, Ryan | title=Gang leader for a day? An academic took the plunge | date=2008-05-05 | publisher=Orange County Register | accessdate=2008-05-06 ] There he was active in sports and excelled in his academic studies while attending University High School. cite web | url=http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/themorningread/article_2034696.php | author=Rivera, Ryan | title=Gang leader for a day? An academic took the plunge | date=2008-05-05 | publisher=Orange County Register | accessdate=2008-05-06 ] He trained at the University of Chicago with William Julius Wilson and studied the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project in Chicago about which he wrote a book, "American Project." Venkatesh also authored a 2008 book titled, "Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets." The book chronicles the life of urban poor in Chicago, particularly the Robert Taylor Homes and the gang, Black Kings.

He is a professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Charles H Revson Fellowship.

In his work, Venkatesh has documented criminal gangs and the drug trade, and has written about the dynamics of the underground economy, contributing his findings to the research of economics professor Steven Levitt.

Books

*"American Project. The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto", Harvard University Press, 2000
*"Off the Books. The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor", Harvard University Press, 2006
*"Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets ", Penguin Press HC, 2008He has also contributed to Steven Levitt's "Freakonomics" in a chapter entitled, "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?"

ee also

*Illegal drug trade

References

External links

* [http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org Venkatesh's official website]
* [http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/venkatesh/faculty.html Venkatesh's faculty homepage]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18003654 Researcher Studies Gangs by Leading one] on NPR website
* [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/author/svenkatesh/ Sudhir Venkatesh opinion page] at Freakonomics blog
* [http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-street-gangs-but-didnt-know-whom-to-ask/ Everything you always wanted to know about street gangs but didn't know whom to ask] Venkatesh answering questions by readers of the Freakonomics blog
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGC2nLnaes Steven Levitt: the Freakonomics of inner-city gangs (video)] Steven Levitt discusses the economics of street gangs and Venkatesh's findings (TED 2004)
* [http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/02/books-notes---a.html SAJAforum web radio interview with Venkatesh (one hour)] - a conversation about his books, his work and academia with Sree Sreenivasan of SAJAforum.org


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