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Mario Small

Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University; Award-Winning Author on Urban Poverty & Personal Networks

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Design, Economy, Government, Leadership, Overcoming Adversity, Professors, Social Sciences
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Mario Small Biography

Mario L. Small, Ph.D., is Quetelet Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He has made numerous contributions to research on urban neighborhoods, personal networks, qualitative and mixed methods, and many other topics. He has shown that poor neighborhoods in commonly-studied cities such as Chicago are not representative of ghettos everywhere, that how people conceive of their neighborhood shapes how its conditions affect them, and that local organizations in poor neighborhoods often broker connections to both people and organizations. Small has demonstrated that people's social capital—including how many people they know and how much they trust others—depends on the organizations in which they are embedded. His work on methods has shown that many practices used to make qualitative research more scientific are ineffective. Small's most recent book examines why people are consistently willing to confide their deepest worries to people they are not close to.

Small, the only two-time recipient of the C. Wright Mills Best Book Award (2005 and 2010), is also a two-time recipient of a Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award Honorable Mention (2005 and 2010), and a recipient of the Robert Park Best Book Award (2005), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title designation (2010), the Robert Park Award (now Jane Addams Award) for Best Article (2004), a Best Book on Culture Award (now Mary Douglas Prize) Honorable Mention (2004), and a Best Article on Culture Award (now Clifford Geertz Award) Honorable Mention (2003), among other honors. His articles have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Social Networks, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and Social Science Research, among other journals; his work has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Public Radio International, the Huffington Post, Pacific Standard, Greater Good, the Chronicle Review, Commonwealth, and Spotlight on Poverty, among other outlets.

Small has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sociology, Advisory Editor of Social Problems and Sociological Quarterly, and Editorial Board Member of Social Psychology Quarterly and Sociological Forum. He is currently Deputy Editor of Sociological Science, Editorial Committee Member of the Annual Review of Sociology, and Editorial Board Member of Social Science Quarterly. He has served as Council Member of the Community and Urban Sociology Section and of the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology of the American Sociological Association, and Council Member of the ASA itself. He Chaired the ASA’s Ad-hoc Committee on the 2010 NRC Rankings, which produced the important Report to the American Sociological Association Regarding the 2010 National Research Council Assessment of Doctoral Programs.

At the University of Chicago, as Chair of the Department of Sociology and later Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, Small spearheaded initiatives that increased support for students, generated resources for faculty research, seeded programs in urban and in computational social science, empirically assessed the institutional climate for students and for faculty of all backgrounds, and substantially expanded the Division's reserves. He has been a trustee of the National Opinion Research Center and the University of Chicago Charter School. He is currently a Board Member of the Spencer Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, and an Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/18/2025.

Mario Small Videos

  • Qualitative Scholar Conversation with Mario Small and Jessica Calarco
    Qualitative Scholar Conversation with Mario Small and Jessica Calarco
    Mario Small and Jessica Calarco. Mario and Jessica discuss their 2024 Qualitative Research Summer Intensive course: “Qualitative Literacy."
  • Mario L Small AERA 2019 Spencer Lecture
    Mario L Small AERA 2019 Spencer Lecture
    Mario Small considers what the social sciences can contribute to the public discourse.
  • 2019 G&WS: Mario Small Presents “On Power, Ambiguity, and ...
    2019 G&WS: Mario Small Presents “On Power, Ambiguity, and ...
    Mario Small, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, presents “On Power, Ambiguity, and Mentoring in the Workplace” at the 2019 Gender ...
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Mario Small Books

  • Qualitative Literacy
    Qualitative Literacy
  • Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
    Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
  • Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice
    Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice
  • Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series)
    Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series)
  • Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
    Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
  • Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
    Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio

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