Margaret Somers

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.

Margaret Somers
Born	December 3rd, 1949 Princeton, New Jersey
Academic background
Alma mater	Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986
Influences	Karl Polanyi
Academic work
Notable works	Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge 2008)

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. (April 2011). "On Genealogies of Citizenship by Margaret Somers". Socio-Economic Review. Oxford Journals. 9 (2): 395–418. doi:10.1093/ser/mwr001.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Lemert, Charles (November 2011). "Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers". American Journal of Sociology. University of Chicago Press. 117 (3): 989–991. doi:10.1086/662956. JSTOR 10.1086/662956.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Turner, Bryan S. (September 2011). "Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights". Cultural Sociology. Sage. 5 (3): 447–448. doi:10.1177/1749975511410000. S2CID 143100873.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Shaver, Sheila (May 2011). "Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008)". Thesis Eleven. Sage. 105 (1): 130–134. doi:10.1177/0725513611407462. S2CID 147061066.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sirianni, Carmen (May 2010). "Big Rights, Small Citizens: Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights by Margaret R. Somers". Contemporary Sociology. Sage. 10 (3): 259–262. doi:10.1177/0094306110367908. JSTOR 20695406. S2CID 147307408.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• 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]

References

1. Official CV at Michigan Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
2. WorldCat item record
3. WorldCat book entry

External links

• Official CV at Michigan