Professor Richard Breen FBA

Sociology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
Sociology

Summary

Richard Breen is Professor of Sociology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He was previously William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department, at Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 1998), a Member of Academia Europaea (2002), and a Fellow the European Academy of Sociology (2015). His research interests are social stratification and inequality, the application of formal models in the social sciences, and quantitative methods.

Current post

Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

Nuffield College University of Oxford Professor of Sociology and Fellow

2015 -

Yale University Professor of Sociology

2007 -

Yale University Professor, Sociology Department

2007 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

2001 - 2006

European University Institute, Florence Professor of Sociology

1997 - 2001

Queen's University Belfast Professor of Sociology

1991 - 1997

Publications

Counterfactual Causal Analysis and Non-Linear Probability Models (with Kristian Bernt Karlson) in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Springer 2013

Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sample Selection Bias (with Seongsoo Choi and Anders Holm), Sociological Science 2015

Income Inequality and Education (with Inkwan Chung)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Buckley FBA

International Business, The Theory of the Multinational Enterprise, Strategy of Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment with special reference to Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets (India and China)

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Professor Mike Power FBA

Accounting, auditing and organisations; sociology of quantification and valuation; the practice of regulation and risk management; risk cultures and corporate governance

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Baroness (Ruth) Lister of Burtersett FBA

Social policy and sociology; poverty; citizenship, in particular from the perspectives of women, children and young people; gender and welfare; social security

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