Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin. His research interests include political ethnography, urban politics, environmental sociology. He is the author of "Poor Peoples Politics, Contentious Lives, Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina, and Patients of the State" (2001). Together with Débora Swistun, he co-authored "Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown" (2009). His new book, "In Harms Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence (2016), co-authored with María Fernanda Berti, was recently published by Princeton University Press. He is also the editor of "Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City" (2015). He is also co-editor, with Philippe Bourgois and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, of "Violence at the Urban Margins" (2015).
Ph.D.
in Sociology, The New School for Social Research, 1997
M.A.
in Sociology, The New School for Social Research, 1995
B.A.
in Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, 1991
Urban Ethnography, Urban Poverty and Social Inequality, Collective Action, Latin American Studies, Social and Cultural Theory
Member,
Editorial Board, ASA Rose Monograph Series (2006 - 2007)
Member,
Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology (2004 - 2010)
Series Editor,
Editorial Board, Global and Comparative Ethnographies
Associate Editor,
Editorial Board, Apuntes de Investigación en Cultura y Política
Member,
Editorial Board, Ethnography
Member,
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum
Associate Director,
Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Coordinator,
Urban Ethnography Lab, University of Texas at Austin
Distinction in Teaching
- Phi Beta Kappa (2015)
Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship Award
- University of Texas at Austin (2013 - 2014)
Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship Foundation (2012)
Research Grant
- National Science Foundation (2012)
Deans Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
- SUNY-Stony Brook (2004)
Advancement of the Discipline Award
- American Sociological Association (2002)
Best Book Prize
- New England Council for Latin American Studies (2001)
Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award
- Eastern Sociological Society
Robert Park Best Book Award
- American Sociological Association
Charles Tilly Best Book Award
- American Sociological Association
Best Book Award
- Association for Humanist Sociology
Political Sociology Section Book Award
- Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, American Sociological Association
