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About Daniel Chambliss

Dan Chambliss and his former student Christopher Takacs '05 co-wrote How College Works, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. Chambliss' research interests are formal organizations, social psychology and research methods.

His Champions: The Making of Olympic Swimmers was named the 1991 Book of the Year by the U.S. Olympic Committee. His book, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses and the Social Organization of Ethics, won the Eliot Freidson Prize in 1998 from the American Sociological Association. Chambliss also won the ASA's Theory Prize for his work on organizational excellence. He and Russell Schutt co-wrote Making Sense of the Social World, a research methods textbook. He earned a doctorate from Yale University.

Positions

Present Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor, Hamilton College Sociology Department
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Honors and Awards

  • Winner, American Sociological Association Section Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning, 2015
  • Winner, Harvard University Press Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for best book on Education and Society, for How College Works, 2014
  • Teagle Foundation Assessment Scholar, 2007-
  • Principal Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants totalling $880,000, Hamilton College Project on Assessment of Liberal Arts Education, 1999-2010
  • Eliot Freidson Prize in Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1998
  • Book of the Year Prize of the U.S. Olympic Committee, 1991
  • Hamilton College nominee, Council for Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the Year award, 1991
  • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas, January-June 1990
  • Fulbright-Hays Lectureship, University of Iceland, fall 1989
  • The Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association, 1989
  • Medical Sociology Dissertation Prize of the American Sociological Association, 1982

Education

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Ph.D., Yale University
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M.A., Yale University
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B.A., New College of the University of South Florida
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Contact Information

Daniel Chambliss
Sociology Department
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

Phone: 315-859-4291

Email:


Books (4)

Book Chapters (3)

Articles (6)