Omar Lizardo

Omar Lizardo
Born September 7th, 1974
New York City, New York
Alma mater Brooklyn College (B.A.)
University of Arizona (Ph.D.)
Known for cultural sociology, cognitive sociology, organizational sociology, social network analysis
Awards Lewis A. Coser Award, Charles Tilly Award, Clifford Geertz Award
Scientific career
Fields Sociology
Institutions University of Notre Dame, University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor Ronald Breiger
Other academic advisors Albert Bergesen

Omar Lizardo (born c. 1974) is a sociologist, LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame (2006-2018), and the co-editor, with Rory McVeigh and Sarah Mustillo, of the American Sociological Review,[1] the flagship journal for the American Sociological Association. According to one commentator, he "has a history of grappling with important ideas in an innovative and insightful fashion"[2] and is a widely cited author in numerous sub-fields of sociology.[3] He is specifically known for his work at the intersection of cognitive science and sociology of culture,[4] but also social networks, organizational sociology and sociological theory. He is a former contributor to the popular sociology group blog, orgtheory.net.[5] and one of the co-founders of the group blog culturecog. [6]

Career

Lizardo was born in New York City, but spent most of adolescent and teenage years La Romana, Dominican Republic.[7] He graduated from Brooklyn College, CUNY with a B.S. in Psychology. He received a MA in 2002 and PhD in 2006 from the University of Arizona both in sociology.[8] He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Ronald Breiger, Kieran Healy, and Erin Leahey, titled Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective. Lizardo also co-authored with Albert Bergesen while at Arizona.

During his time as a professor of sociology at Notre Dame, he was an External Member of the Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University.[9] He has also served as a faculty fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies[10] and at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He was also a faculty member of iCeNSA, the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications at Notre Dame.[11]

Major contributions

In 2005, as a graduate student at Arizona he won two separate American Sociological Association (ASA) section awards with co-author Jessica Collett. Best Graduate Student Paper Award in Religion for Why biology is not (religious) destiny: a second look at gender differences in religiosity[12] and Best Graduate Student Paper Award in Emotions for Socioe-conomic status and the experience of anger.[13]

In 2008, he won the Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article in Cultural Sociology for How cultural tastes shape social networks.[14] In this article, Lizardo confronts the "traditional network model" in which cultural taste formation and transmission is shaped and determined by social networks, and instead asks "whether cultural tastes and practices themselves have an independent effect on social structure (conceived as patterns of network relations)."[15] He concludes that "popular culture" is characterized wide appeal and ease of incorporation and is therefore associated with more weak ties (i.e. used to bridge), while "highbrow culture" is more exclusive and serves to strengthen close ties (i.e. used to fence).

In 2013, Lizardo won the Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, which is "intended to recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.”[16]

In 2014, with co-author Robert Fishman, Lizardo won the Charles Tilly Best Article Award for Comparative and Historical Sociology for his publication How macro-historical change shapes cultural taste: Legacies of democratization in Spain and Portugal.[17]

In 2014, along with co-author Melissa Fletcher Pirkey, Lizardo wrote the lead article for Volume 40 of Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks entitled How organizational theory can help network theorizing: Linking structure and dynamics via cross-level analogies.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "American Sociological Association: Notre Dame Sociologists to Lead American Sociological Association's Flagship Journal". www.asanet.org. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  2. ↑ http://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.2383/27710
  3. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lt5nMNkAAAAJ&hl=en
  4. ↑ http://www.theculturelab.umd.edu/sociologists.html
  5. ↑ http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/omar-lizardo-guest-blogger
  6. ↑ https://culturecog.blog
  7. ↑ http://www3.nd.edu/~olizardo/bio.html
  8. ↑ http://www3.nd.edu/~olizardo/papers/vita.pdf
  9. ↑ http://www.trentu.ca/globalpolitics/members.php
  10. ↑ http://kroc.nd.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-fellows-directory
  11. ↑ http://www.icensa.com/faculty/omar-lizardo
  12. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sections/religion_past_recipients.cfm
  13. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sections/emotions_recipients_History.cfm
  14. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sections/culture_recipients_History.cfm
  15. ↑ Lizardo, Omar. "How cultural tastes shape personal networks." American Sociological Review 71.5 (2006): 778-807.
  16. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sections/theory_awards.cfm
  17. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sectionchs/index.cfm
  18. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=4oPeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 How organizational theory can help network theorizing: Linking structure and dynamics via cross-level analogies.
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