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Andrew J. Perrin, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Andrew J. Perrin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SNF Agora Professor of Sociology and Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mergenthaler 556
aperrin@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I am a cultural and political sociologist. Broadly speaking, I study and teach democratic citizenship in the United States. I focus on the cultural and social underpinnings of democracy: what do people need to know, be, and do to make democracy work? My current research is on public opinion, letters to the editor, and democratic citizenship. I am the SNF Agora Professor in the sociology department at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 2001-2021. Most recently, I was the Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a regular contributor to Scatterplot<\/a>, the sociology blog, and I read a variety of other social scientific, academic, and political blogs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1991-92, I worked for The Namibian<\/a> , an independent newspaper in Windhoek, Namibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I graduated from Swarthmore College<\/a> in 1994 and spent the following summer working for the Grassroots Policy Project<\/a> on labor-environment coalition building in the Great Lakes. I am now a Senior Research Fellow at GPP. I then moved to Rochester, New York, where I worked for Tex-Port, Inc., doing computer repairs and support. My biggest customer was Electronic Data Systems (EDS), which in turn was under contract to support three General Motors units in the Rochester area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got my Ph.D. in Sociology<\/a> at the University of California, Berkeley<\/a> in 2001. In addition, I used to do various computer work for the Demography department and consulting work for DHL World Airways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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