Dr. Paul Dimaggio

Biography

Paul DiMaggio is the Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he has served as past chair of the sociology department from 1996 to 1999. He was previously the executive director of Yale University's Program on Non-Profit Organizations from 1982 to 1987 and became a professor in the sociology department and the Institution for Social Policy Studies at the Yale School of Organization and Management in 1991. DiMaggio has conducted extensive research in organizational analysis, with a particular interest in non-profit cultural organizations, patterns of participation in the arts, and cultural conflict in the United States. His current research involves studying the social implications of new digital technologies. He has edited several noteworthy publications, including 'Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts' (Oxford University Press, 1986), 'The Twenty-First Century Firm' (Princeton University Press, 2001), and 'New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis' (with Walter W. Powell). He is also the author of 'Managers in the Arts' (Seven Locks Press, 1986) and co-authored 'Race, Ethnicity, and Participation in the Arts' (with Francie Ostrower, Seven Locks Press, 1991). He is a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1984-85) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990). Furthermore, DiMaggio has served on the board of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

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