Erik Olin Wright was a distinguished sociologist and, from 2011 to 2012, president of the American Sociological Association. He died on January 23, 2019, leaving behind an inspiring moral and intellectual legacy and a...
My name is Masoud Movahed and I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. I completed my doctorate in Sociology (with a minor in Economics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at UW-Madison’s Sociology Department, I was affiliated with the Institute for Research on Povertyand Center for Demography & Ecology. Broadly, my interests lie at the nexus of economic sociology and social stratification. Most of my research uses computational and quantitative methods, but I retain a keen interest for comparative historical methods.