Professor Richard Breen FBA
- 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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Kelvyn Jones FBA
Quantitative social science methodology; geography of health; social geography
Professor Jane Lewis FBA
Social policy and administration; gender and sexuality studies; social History
Professor Mike Savage FBA
Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.
