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 Colin Crouch FBA
The economic sociology of Europe, including central and eastern Europe, with particular reference to work, industrial relations, and related social policies; problems of neoliberalism and contemporary capitalism
Professor Mauricio Avendano FBA
The health impact of social policies (education, families, pensions, long-term care, poverty and employment); the role of institutions in explaining international differences in ageing; the socio-economic impacts of mental health.
Professor Henri Leridon FBA
The demographic study of human reproduction (fertility, sterility, medically assisted reproduction, contraception, sexual behavior); family (marriage, cohabitation, structures) and population dynamics
