in Sociology from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Professor William Julius Wilson, focusing on the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project in Chicago. Venkatesh describes his switch from mathematics to sociology in graduate school as a result of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. Raised in Irvine, California, Venkatesh received a B.A. Additionally, Venkatesh is a public writer and documentary filmmaker, and has held positions at Facebook and Twitter. Venkatesh is also the host of Sudhir Breaks the Internet, a podcast published by Freakonomics Radio Network. Venkatesh is the author of the book, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets, published by Penguin Press in 2008. As of 2018, he is the Director of Signal: The Tech & Society Lab at Columbia University. In his work, Venkatesh has studied gangs and underground economies, public housing, advertising and technology. Ransford Professor of Sociology & African-American Studies at Columbia University, a position he has held since 1999. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (born 1966) is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. University of California, San Diego ( BA)Īmerican project: a historical-ethnography of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes
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