Mark Mizruchi

Mark S. Mizruchi is the Robert Cooley Angell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan.  He received his B.A. at Washington University (St. Louis) in 1975 and his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980.  After several years as a statistical consultant at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he became Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in 1987.  He was promoted to Associate Professor at Columbia in 1989 and moved to Michigan as Professor in 1991.

Mizruchi's research has focused on the economic and political behavior of large American corporations using the methods of social network analysis.  He has also published articles on circadian rhythms of blood minerals in humans, substance abuse among psychiatric inpatients, and two (scholarly) papers on professional basketball teams.  His publications include four books and more than 100 articles and reviews.  His book, The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (Harvard University Press, 2013), received the George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.  He has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, and three teaching awards from the University of Michigan.  His work has also been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg View, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker.