David Stark

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David Stark

dcs36@columbia.edu

212-854-3972

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Affiliation

Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
School of International and Public Affairs

Director (on leave 2007-08), Center on Organizational Innovation

Research

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute. Stark examines organizational forms as sites of multiple evaluative principles, or frames of worth. He has carried out field research in Hungarian factories before and after 1989, in new media startups in Manhattan before and after the dot.com crash, and in a World Financial Center trading room before and after the attack on September 11th. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is currently working on an historical network analysis of ties between enterprises and political parties based on longitudinal data on the largest 2,200 Hungarian enterprises from 1987-2006.

Stark has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, the Institute for Advanced Study/Collegium Budapest, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Center for the Social Sciences in Berlin, and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow. During the Fall 2007 term, he will be on leave as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Durham, England. In Spring 2008, he will be a Scholar in Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne, Germany.

Selected Work

Â"Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary.Â" (with Balazs Vedres) American Journal of Sociology, March 2006, vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 1368-1411.
Â"Socio-technologies of Assembly: Sense-making and Demonstration in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan.Â" (with Monique Girard) In David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, eds., Governance and Information: The Rewiring of Governing and Deliberation in the 21st Century. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press).
Â"Rooted Transnational Publics: Integrating Foreign Ties and Civic Activism.Â" (with Balazs Vedres and Laszlo Bruszt) Theory and Society vol 35, no. 3 (2006), pp. 323-349.
Â"Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room.Â" (with Daniel Beunza) Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 13, no. 1, 2004, pp. 369-401.
Â"Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New Media Projects.Â" (with Monique Girard) Environment and Planning A, vol. 34, no 11, November 2002, pp. 1927-1949.