1. Richard Sennett was born on 1 January 1943 and is an American sociologist who is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.
10 Facts About Richard Sennett
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Richard Sennett is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University.
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Richard Sennett has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Richard Sennett is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
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Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, to a Jewish family of Russian emigres.
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Richard Sennett studied under David Riesman, Erik Erikson, and Oscar Handlin at Harvard, graduating with his Ph.
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Richard Sennett's scholarly writing centers on the development of cities, the nature of work in modern society, and the sociology of culture.
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Richard Sennett is working on a project called 'Homo Faber,' exploring material ways of making culture.
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Richard Sennett then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design.
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Richard Sennett has been married to sociologist Saskia Sassen since 1987.