Richard Breen#
| Membership Number: | 2136 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- 2001 - 2006 Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
- 1997 - 2001 Professor of Sociology, European University Institute, Florence
- 1991 - 1997 Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Belfast
- 1981 - 1991 Research Officer, The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
- 1981 PhD. Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantitative methods and mathematical models
- Inequality, social stratification and social mobility
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 1999 Fellow of the British Academy
