Elijah Anderson
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
Yale University
Yale University
Office Location :
140 Prospect Street
Phone :
+1-203-432-3321
Facsimile :
+1-203-432-5092
Email : elijah.anderson@yale.edu
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William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology
Elijah Anderson is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Professor Anderson received his B.A. from Indiana University (1969), his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1972) and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1976).
Recent Publications
Books
- Anderson, Elijah (ed.) (2009). Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions And Its Future. (Ethnography, Special Double Issue), Sage Press. December, Volume 10, No. 4.
- Anderson, Elijah (ed.) (2008). Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Penn Press.
- Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones (eds.) (2004) Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 595(September).
- Anderson, Elijah (2003). A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men, (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Anderson, Elijah, and Doug Massey (eds.) (2001). Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States. California: Sage Publications.
- Anderson, Elijah and Tukufu Zuberi (eds.) (2000). The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 568(March).
- Anderson, Elijah (1999). Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence and The Moral Life Of The Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Anderson, Elijah (1990). Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chapters
- Anderson, Elijah and Jamie J. Fader (2008) “Urban Underclass,” in Vincent N. Parrillo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Problems, pp.986-88. Sage Publications.
- Anderson, Elijah (2006). “Inadequate Responses, Limited Expectations,” in Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter (eds.) Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina, pp. 193-200. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Anderson, Elijah and Faye Allard (2004). “Ethnography,” in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. Academic Press.
- Anderson, Elijah (2001). “Urban Ethnography,” in N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, pp. 16004-08. Elsevier, Inc.
Articles
- Anderson, Elijah (2004). “The Cosmopolitan Canopy,” Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries (ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595 September): 14-31.
- Anderson, Elijah (2003). “Jelly’s Place: An Ethnographic Memoir” (Distinguished Lecture), Symbolic Interaction, 26 (2): 217-237.
- Anderson, Elijah and Nancy B. Hisrshinger, et al. (2003). “A Case-Control Study of Female-Female Non-Intimate Violence in an Urban Area,” The American Journal of Public Health, 93 (7): 1098-1103.
- Anderson, Elijah (2001). “Going Straight: The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-convict,” Punishment & Society 3(1): 135-52.