Kieran Healy, Professor of Sociology

Contact Info:

Office Location:	268 Sociology/Psychology Bld, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5614
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• SOCIOL 232.01, VISUALIZING SOCIAL DATA Synopsis

  Perkins 088, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• SOCIOL 690S.01, SEMINAR SELECTED TOPICS Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 329, W 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

• Ph.D. Princeton University 2001
• M.A. Princeton University 1998
• M.A. University College, Cork (Ireland) 1994
• A.B. University College, Cork (Ireland) 1993

Research Interests:

My research interests are in economic sociology, culture, and organizations. I have written several articles and a book about gift and market exchange in human blood and organs. I’ve also published work on the relationship between information technology and culture, wage growth and unemployment in OECD labor markets, and debates about structure and agency in social theory. Right now I am interested in the moral order of market society, the effect of quantification on the emergence and stabilization of social categories, and the link between these two topics.

Areas of Interest:

Economic Sociology
Sociology of Culture
Organizations
Social Theory

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Edwards, F; Wakefield, S; Healy, K; Wildeman, C, Reply to Putnam-Hornstein et al.: On honest mistakes and raceless children., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118 no. 49 (December, 2021), pp. e2116225118 [doi] .
2. Edwards, F; Wakefield, S; Healy, K; Wildeman, C, Erratum: Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2021) 118 (e2106272118) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106272118), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118 no. 42 (October, 2021), pp. e2116639118-e2116639118, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [doi]  [abs].
3. Edwards, F; Wakefield, S; Healy, K; Wildeman, C, Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118 no. 30 (July, 2021), pp. e2106272118 [doi]  [abs].
4. Healy, K, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (2019), Princeton University Press .
5. Krawiec, K; Healy, K, Organ Entrepreneurs, in The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship (2019), Cambridge University Press .