Frederick F. Wherry

Frederick Wherry is an Associate Professor of Sociology. Before coming to Columbia, he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and served as the Interim Associate Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Michigan. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Sociology and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. He has also been invited to serve on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review. He remains a Faculty Fellow at Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology.

He is the author of The Culture of Markets (Polity, 2012), The Philadelphia Barrio (University of Chicago Press, 2011),  and Global Markets and Local Crafts (Johns Hopkins, 2008). He is also co-editor (with Nina Bandelj) of The Cultural Wealth of Nations (Stanford University Press, 2011). He has conducted ethnographic research in Philadelphia (USA), Thailand, and Costa Rica. His work examines how value is accounted for and how it is generated, contested, and transformed. His new research explores how people of color understand and use money.