Elijah Anderson (sociologist)

American sociologist (born 1943)

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Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist and a Stockholm Prize Laureate for his pioneering research in criminology. He is currently the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University, where he directs the Urban Ethnography Project. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists in the United States.

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