1. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh was born on 1966 and is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer.
18 Facts About Sudhir Venkatesh
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Sudhir Venkatesh is the author of the book, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets, published by Penguin Press in 2008.
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Additionally, Sudhir Venkatesh is a public writer and documentary filmmaker, and has held positions at Facebook and Twitter.
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Sudhir Venkatesh describes his switch from mathematics to sociology in graduate school as a result of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago's inner-city neighborhoods.
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Sudhir Venkatesh was awarded the National Science Foundation NSF CAREER award in 2000.
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From 1996 to 1999, Sudhir Venkatesh was elected as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
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Since 2013, Sudhir Venkatesh has been writing about the advertising industry, both in academic journals and the popular press.
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Sudhir Venkatesh served as the Academic Director of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, a global Executive MBA program for the advertising industry, from 2011 to 2012.
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In 2008 Sudhir Venkatesh authored a book titled, Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets.
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Sudhir Venkatesh found that most foot soldiers in drug gangs make only $3.30 an hour.
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Two years prior, Sudhir Venkatesh authored another book about illegal economies in Chicago, titled Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.
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Sudhir Venkatesh served as director of the MA in Global Thought for Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought from 2015 to 2016.
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In 2009 Sudhir Venkatesh became director of Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, or ISERP.
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In 2011 Sudhir Venkatesh was the subject of an investigation on inappropriate spending and misappropriation of funds at ISERP.
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In 2012 Sudhir Venkatesh revealed to The New York Times that he had reimbursed Columbia University for approximately $13,000 of $240,000 of funds that were misallocated during his tenure as director of ISERP.
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Sudhir Venkatesh was hired in 2016 to help Facebook deal with bullying and misinformation and was let go from the company in 2018.
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In late 2018, Sudhir Venkatesh started advising Twitter as Director of Social Science Research and Health Research.
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Sudhir Venkatesh directed and produced Transformation: A History of Public Housing, a three-part documentary series that aired on PBS in 2003 and was awarded the Best Documentary Series Award by the Associated Press.