Omar Lizardo

Omar Lizardo (born 7 September 1974) is a sociologist, LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame (2006-2018), and the former co-editor (2016-2020), with Rory McVeigh and Sarah Mustillo, of the American Sociological Review,[1] the flagship journal for the American Sociological Association. According to one commentator, he "has a history of grappling with important ideas in an innovative and insightful fashion"[2] and is a widely cited author in numerous sub-fields of sociology.[3] He is specifically known for his work at the intersection of cognitive science and sociology of culture,[4] but also social networks, organizational sociology, and sociological theory. He is a former contributor to the popular sociology group blog, orgtheory.net.[5] and one of the co-founders of the group blog culturecog. [6]

Omar Lizardo
Born
Omar Alcides Lizardo

September 7th, 1974
New York City, New York
Alma materBrooklyn College (B.A.)
University of Arizona (Ph.D.)
Known forcultural sociology, cognitive sociology, organizational sociology, social network analysis
AwardsLewis A. Coser Award, Charles Tilly Award, Clifford Geertz Award
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Notre Dame, University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorRonald Breiger
Other academic advisorsAlbert Bergesen
InfluencesPierre Bourdieu, Paul DiMaggio, John Levi Martin

Biography and Career

Lizardo was born in New York City, but spent most of his childhood and teenage years in La Romana, Dominican Republic.[7] He graduated from Brooklyn College, CUNY with a B.S. in Psychology in 1997. He received a MA in 2002 and PhD in 2006 from the University of Arizona both in sociology.[8] He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Ronald Breiger, Kieran Healy, and Erin Leahey, titled Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective. [9] Lizardo also co-authored several articles with Albert Bergesen while at Arizona.

During his time as a professor of sociology at Notre Dame, he was an External Member of the Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University.[10] He has also served as a faculty fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and was also a faculty member of iCeNSA, the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications at Notre Dame, now renamed the Center for Network & Data Science.[11] While at Notre Dame, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2012, and to the rank of Full Professor in 2016.

Awards and Recognitions

In 2005, as a graduate student at the University of Arizona he won two separate American Sociological Association (ASA) section awards with co-author Jessica Collett. Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA's Section on the Sociology of Religion for their Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion paper Why biology is not (religious) destiny: a second look at gender differences in religiosity[12] and Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA's Section on Emotions Rec for their paper Socioeconomic status and the experience of anger..[13] The paper was later published in the journal Social Forces as Occupational status and the experience of anger.[14]

In 2008, he won the Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article in Cultural Sociology for his American Sociological Review paper entitled How cultural tastes shape social networks.[15] In this article, Lizardo confronts the "traditional network model" in which cultural taste formation and transmission is shaped and determined by social networks, and instead asks "whether cultural tastes and practices themselves have an independent effect on social structure (conceived as patterns of network relations)."[16] He concludes that "popular culture" is characterized wide appeal and ease of incorporation and is therefore associated with more weak ties (i.e. used to bridge), while "highbrow culture" is more exclusive and serves to strengthen close ties (i.e. used to fence).

In 2013, Lizardo won the Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, which is "intended to recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.”[17] His remarks, delivered orally at the 2014 meetings of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, were subsequently published as an online pamphlet by Alison Gerber, entitled The End of Theorists: The Relevance, Opportunities, and Pitfalls of Theorizing in Sociology Today.[18]

In 2014, with co-author Robert Fishman, Lizardo won the Charles Tilly Best Article Award of the ASA's Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology for their American Sociological Review paper How macro-historical change shapes cultural taste: Legacies of democratization in Spain and Portugal.[19], [20]

In 2015, along with co-author Jessica Collett, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Emotions Recent Contribution Award for their Social Forces paper “Embarrassment and social organization: A multiple identities model.[21]

In 2017, along with co-author Michael Strand, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Theory Prize for Outstanding Article for their Sociological Theory paper Beyond world images: Belief as embodied action in the world.[22], [23]

In 2019, Lizardo was elected a member of the Sociological Research Association.

References
  1. "American Sociological Association: Notre Dame Sociologists to Lead American Sociological Association's Flagship Journal". www.asanet.org. 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  2. Timothy J. Dowd; Dowd, Timothy J. (2008). "Comment on Omar Lizardo/1". Sociologica (2). doi:10.2383/27710.
  3. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lt5nMNkAAAAJ&hl=en
  4. "Sociologists".
  5. http://orgtheory.wordpress.com
  6. "Culture, Cognition, and Action (culturecog)".
  7. http://olizardo.bol.ucla.edu/
  8. http://olizardo.bol.ucla.edu/media/vita.pdf
  9. "Globalization, World Culture And The Sociology Of Taste: Patterns Of Cultural Choice In Cross-National Perspective" (PDF).
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2014-07-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "Center for Network & Data Science".
  12. "The Section on Sociology of Religion Award Recipients". 2011-10-03.
  13. "Section on Emotions Past Award Recipients". 2011-03-08.
  14. Collett, J. L., & Lizardo, O. (2010). Occupational status and the experience of anger. Social Forces, 88(5), 2079-2104.
  15. "Section on Culture Past Award Recipients". 2011-03-08.
  16. Lizardo, O. (2006). How cultural tastes shape personal networks. American sociological review, 71(5), 778-807.
  17. http://www.asatheory.org/coser-award.html
  18. http://akgerber.com/OpenBook010.pdf
  19. Fishman, R. M., & Lizardo, O. (2013). How macro-historical change shapes cultural taste: legacies of democratization in Spain and Portugal. American Sociological Review, 78(2), 213-239.
  20. https://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/asa-sections/current-sections/comparative-and-historical-sociology/section-comparative-and-historical-sociology-past-award-recipients
  21. Lizardo, O., & Collett, J. L. (2013). Embarrassment and social organization: A multiple identities model. Social forces, 92(1), 353-375.
  22. Strand, M., & Lizardo, O. (2015). Beyond world images: Belief as embodied action in the world. Sociological Theory, 33(1), 44-70.
  23. http://www.asatheory.org/theory-prize.html
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