Rate My Professor Josh Whitford

Whitford earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, an M.A. in Sociology in 1998, and a B.A. with majors in Mathematics and Italian in 1993 from the same institution. His honors include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship in 2007, a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant in 2016, the Kathryn DuPre Lumpkin Award for the Best Dissertation in the University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology in 2003, and a Fulbright IIE Fellowship for Italy in 1998. He is the author of The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing (Oxford University Press, 2005). Notable publications include Fixing Network Failures? The Contested Case of the American Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Socio-Economic Review, 2017, with Philipp Brandt), The Network Firm as a Political Coalition (Organization Studies, 2016, with Francesco Zirpoli), Pragmatism, Practice, and the Boundaries of Organization (Organization Science, 2014, with Francesco Zirpoli), and Waltzing, Relational Work, and the Construction (or Not) of Collaboration in Manufacturing Industries (Politics & Society, 2012). Forthcoming books are When Networks Fail (Princeton University Press, with Andrew Schrank) and Icons on the Edge (University of Chicago Press, with Francesco Zirpoli and Markus Becker). Whitford has served on the editorial boards of Socio-Economic Review and Argomenti and as program co-chair for the 2007 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics meeting.