Margaret Somers Explained

Birth Date:	December 3rd, 1949
Birth Place:	Princeton, New Jersey
Alma Mater:	Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986
Major Works:	Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge 2008)

Margaret R. Somers is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan She is the recipient of the inaugural Lewis A. Coser Award for Innovation and Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology, Somers's work specializes in historical, political, economic, and cultural sociology and social theory.

Biography

Somers received a MA from Harvard University in Sociology in 1981, and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1986.^[1]

Publications

• Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge 2008) won the 2009 APSA Giovanni Sartori Qualitative Methods Award. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 342 libraries^[2]

Reviewed in :

• Katz . Michael B. . On Genealogies of Citizenship by Margaret Somers . . 9 . 2 . 395–418 . . 10.1093/ser/mwr001 . April 2011 .

• Lemert . Charles . Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers . . 117 . 3 . 989–991 . . 10.1086/662956 . 10.1086/662956 . November 2011 .

• Turner . Bryan S. . Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights . . 5 . 3 . 447–448 . . 10.1177/1749975511410000 . September 2011 . 143100873 .

• Shaver . Sheila . Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008) . . 105 . 1 . 130–134 . . 10.1177/0725513611407462 . May 2011 . 147061066 .

• Sirianni . Carmen . Big Rights, Small Citizens: Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers . . 10 . 3 . 259–262 . . 10.1177/0094306110367908 . 20695406 . May 2010 . 147307408 .
• Block, Fred L., and Margaret R. Somers. The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique. 2014. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 264 libraries^[3]

External links

• Official CV at Michigan

Notes and References

1. https://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/soc/Home/People/CVs/peggscv.pdf Official CV at Michigan
2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192045576 WorldCat item record
3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859168694 WorldCat book entry