18 Facts About Benjamin Cornwell

Benjamin Thomas Cornwell was born on April 30,1978 and is an American sociologist.

Benjamin Cornwell is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, where he served as chair from 2020 to 2024.

Benjamin Cornwell studied under Edward Laumann, Linda Waite, and Jason Beckfield.

Benjamin Cornwell was born to Thomas and Susan Cornwell in 1978 in Huntington, West Virginia.

Benjamin Cornwell is a distant relation of Oliver Cromwell, who led England as Lord Protector between the reigns of Kings Charles I and Charles II.

Benjamin Cornwell's father was a social worker at Middletown Regional Hospital, and his mother a medical secretary at Children's in Cincinnati.

Benjamin Cornwell's cousin, Kathie Stewart, is a founding member of the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.

Benjamin Cornwell's dissertation was titled Physical Function and Social Action, which argues that individuals' structural positions within larger social networks is partly a function of health.

Benjamin Cornwell has since served as consulting editor of American Journal of Sociology, which was founded in 1895 and is the oldest journal of sociology in history.

Benjamin Cornwell served for several years as a teaching intern and research assistant for ex-Chicago dean Donald N Levine while at Chicago, helping him in his argument for the need for a revamped and renewed undergraduate curriculum centering not on memorization of facts or testing, but on analytic understanding, the ancient art of rhetoric, and a focus on the mutual constitution of the mind's powers and its connection to the body.

Benjamin Cornwell was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell in 2008, and was appointed as Chair of that Department in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Benjamin Cornwell is author or editor on three books and over 70 scientific articles.

Benjamin Cornwell has shown that due to the sometimes rapid onset of health problems and losses, people prioritize and struggle to maintain a kind of homeostasis in their personal and community social networks, including maintaining and recovering a stable network.

Benjamin Cornwell has developed new methods for studying social networks, including novel approaches to measure features of two-mode networks, which involve ties not just between people, but between people and organizations and the massive invisible web-like structures these connections create.

Benjamin Cornwell conducted the actual network analysis that revealed the small-world network nature of college campuses, which supported their controversial suggestion of a turn toward a hybrid model of class instruction, at least in the short run.

Benjamin Cornwell won Cornell University's fellowship competition from the Institute for the Social Sciences.

Benjamin Cornwell is an inaugural member of the international Sequence Analysis Association's advisory board.

Benjamin Cornwell has applied sequence analysis to the study of individuals' time-use patterns, which have revealed important gender differences in time allocation, among other topics, with collaborators Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan.