Nina BandeljAssistant Professor, Sociology |
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Research Interests |
Economic Sociology, Culture, Organizations, Social Networks, Political Economy, Globalization, Social Change, Central and Eastern Europe | |
| URLs | Home Page | |
| Executive Committee Member, COR - Center for Organizational Research | ||
| Co-chair, ISA RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development | ||
| My book, From Communists to Foreign Capitalists | ||
| My book, Economic Sociology of Work | ||
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Academic Distinctions |
2008-10 Elected Council Member, Economic Sociology Section, American Sociological Association 2006-10 Elected Co-Chair, RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, International Sociological Association 2007 Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Irvine 2006 Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 2005 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Fellow, Cologne, Germany 2004 Winner of Seymour Martin Lipset Dissertation Award, Society for Comparative Research 2003, 2004 Nominated for Professor of the Month, University of California, Irvine, Campus Village Undergraduate Complex 2003 Graduate Student Paper Award, Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics 2003 American Sociological Association Sociology of Emotions Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Runner-Up 2002 Certificate for Outstanding Participation in the Theory and Research in Comparative Sociology Course, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 2002 DBH Foundation Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper in Sociology at Princeton University 2001 American Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Reinhard Bendix Graduate Student Paper Prize Finalist 2000 Candace Rogers Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper by Eastern Sociological Society 1998 Carl Couch Award for Undergraduate Paper by Midwest Sociological Society |
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Research Abstract |
Nina Bandelj’s research engages and intersects two areas of inquiry, economic sociology and social change related to transformations in Central and Eastern Europe and globalization. She is interested in uncovering the social bases of economic processes, at micro and macro levels of analysis, in order to advance new theoretical explanations about economy/society interactions. To do so she collects and analyzes original data employing quantitative and qualitative methods, and often a combination of both. Bandelj’s research on economy and society is inspired by classical questions raised by Max Weber about social and economic action and Karl Polanyi about market creation and operation. She contributes to the theoretical and empirical agenda in economic sociology by a) examining how a combination of three types of social forces, structural, political and cultural, shape economic phenomena; b) explicating how these social forces constitute, not merely constrain, economic outcomes; c) theorizing micro-economic behavior in conditions of uncertainty as practical social action; and d) extending the economic sociology approach to explain macro-economic trends. Related to this research agenda in economic sociology, Bandelj’s work also examines, more broadly, the two momentous changes in the late 20th century, the rise of globalization and the collapse of communism. The goal is a) to study these dynamics, i.e. the processes of social change, and explicate the social construction and institutionalization of economic, political, and cultural outcomes that are taken for granted in times of stability, and b) to assess the consequences of these changes, primarily for social inequality. |
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| Publications | Bandelj, Nina. 2009. “Toward Economic Sociology of Work.” Pp. 1-18 in Economic Sociology of Work, edited by Nina Bandelj. London, UK: Emerald Publishing. | |
| Bandelj, Nina. Editor. 2009. Economic Sociology of Work. London, UK: Emerald Publishing. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2009. “The Global Economy as Instituted Process: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe.” American Sociological Review 74: 128-149. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. Forthcoming. “Giving Mega Attention to Macro Research: How to Handle Challenges of Quantitative Cross-National Data Collection and Analysis.” In Research Methods from the Trenches edited by Eszter Hargittai. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2009. “Emotions in Economic Action and Interaction.” Theory and Society 39 (in press). | ||
| Mahutga, Matthew C. and Nina Bandelj. 2008. “Foreign Investment and Inequality: The Natural Experiment of Central and Eastern Europe.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 49 (6): 429-454. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2008. “Economic Objects as Cultural Objects: Discourse on Foreign Investment in Post-socialist Europe.” Socio-Economic Review 6(4): 671-702. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2008. Book Review of The New Old Economy, by Josh Whitford. Social Forces 87(1). | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2008. “Market Transition ‘One MBA at a Time:’ Institutionalization of Management Education in Central and Eastern Europe.” Research Network 1989, WP 2008/5. | ||
| Nina Bandelj. 2008. From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2007. “Negotiating Neo-liberalism: Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe.” Pp. 46-74 in Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices and Globalization, edited by Ulrike Schuerkens. New York: Routledge. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2007. “Supraterritoriality, Embeddedness, or Both? Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe.” Pp. 3-41 in Globalization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Katalin Fabian. London: Elsevier. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina and Danica Purg. 2006. “Networks as Resources, Organizational Logic, and Change Mechanism: The Case of Private Business Schools in Postsocialism.” Sociological Forum 21(4): 587-622. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2006. "Social Foundations of Income Inequality in Postsocialist Europe." EUI Working Paper RSCAS No. 2006/34. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina and Bogdan Radu. 2006. “Consolidation of Democracy in Postcommunist Europe.” Center for the Study of Democracy. Paper 06-04. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2006. “Cultural Understandings of Economic Globalization: Discourse on Foreign Direct Investment in Slovenia.” Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. MPIfG Discussion Paper 06/1. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2006. “Economic Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: An Economic Sociology Perspective.” Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, 2005-06 European Forum EUF/2005-6/16. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2006. Book Review of Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union, edited by Mojmir Mrak, Matija Rojec and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui. Europe-Asia Studies 58(1): 135-136. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2005. Book Review of The Sociology of the Economy, edited by Frank Dobbin. Contemporary Sociology 34(3): 261-262. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2004. "Institutional Foundations of Economic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (1990-2000)." Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine. Working Paper 04-14. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2004. "Negotiating Global, Regional, and National Forces: Foreign Investment in Slovenia." East European Politics and Societies 18(3): 455-480. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2003. “How Method Actors Create Character-Roles.” Sociological Forum 18(3): 387-416. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2003. "Particularizing the Global: Reception of Foreign Direct Investment in Slovenia." Current Sociology 51(3/4): 377-394. Reprinted in Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds, edited by Ulrike Schuerkens. Pp. 169-184. London: Sage Publications (2004). | ||
| Bandelj, Nina. 2002. “Embedded Economies: Social Relations as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe.” Social Forces 81 (2): 411-444. | ||
| Bandelj, Nina, Viviana A. Zelizer, and Ann Morning. 2001. Materials for the Study of Childhood. Princeton, NJ: Department of Sociology, Princeton University. | ||
| Grants | 2006, 2005, 2004 Center for the Study of Democracy Seed Grant | |
| 2002 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Bruce Western) | ||
| 2002 Center for Migration and Development Research Grant, Princeton University | ||
| 2001-2002 European Political Economy Infrastructure Consortium Junior Doctoral Researcher Scholarship | ||
| 2001-2002 Center of International Studies MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship, Princeton University Prize Fellowship | ||
| 2001 American Sociological Association Teaching Enhancement Grant (with Wendy Cadge and Eszter Hargittai) | ||
| 1999-2001 Noah Cotsen Junior Teaching Fellowship, Princeton University Prize Fellowship | ||
| 2007 CORCL Cultural Diversity Grant, University of California, Irvine | ||
| 2007 Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia Grant (PI: Andrej Rus) | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Sociological Association International Sociological Association Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics International Institute of Sociology Council of European Studies Research Network 1989 |
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| Research Centers | Center for the Study of Democracy | |
| Center for Organizational Research | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5053 | |
| Last updated | 05/19/2009 | |