Mario Luis Small

Mario L. Small, Ph.D., Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the Sociological Research Association. An expert on urban inequality, personal networks, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods, his books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life -- both of which received the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book -- and Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice, which received the James Coleman Best Book Award among other honors. His most books are Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis---an edited volume with more than 50 contributors---and Qualitative Literacy: A Guide for Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research.