Peter Shawn Bearman was born on 1956 and is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks.
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Peter Bearman is the Jonathan R Cole Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, the President of the American Assembly at Columbia University, as well as the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics.
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Peter Bearman is the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and co-founding director of Columbia's Oral History Master of Arts Program, the first oral history masters program in the country.
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Peter Bearman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, a Guggenheim Fellow in 2016, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
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Peter Bearman was the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and is currently the director of INCITE, the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University.
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Peter Bearman was co-founding director of Columbia's Oral History Master of Arts program and co-founding director of the Global Health Research Center in Central Asia.
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Peter Bearman is currently co-editor of the Oral History Series and the Middle Range Series, both published by Columbia University Press.
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Peter Bearman has been on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Sociological Theory.
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Peter Bearman is widely credited with bringing social network analysis methods to the demographic and population research community.
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Peter Bearman introduced social network approaches to social sequence analysis through the concept of narrative networks.
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Peter Bearman currently directs the Robert Wood Johnson Program in population health at Columbia University.
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Peter Bearman has received major grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the American Legacy Foundation, the Office of Population Affairs National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, totaling over $20,000,000.
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In 2007, Peter Bearman was awarded the National Institute of Health Director's Pioneer Award to investigated the social determinants of the autism epidemic.
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Peter Bearman is the author of Doormen, an ethnographic study of doormen in New York City, and is the co-author of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart with Adam Reich.
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Peter Bearman is co-editor of After the Fall, an oral history documenting New Yorkers' recollections of the September 11 attacks, as well as Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, which is to be published in 2019.
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