Mitchell Duneier. United States, 1961. Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer. He is currently the Maurice P. During Professor — Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University — and also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Duneier earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. His first book, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, won the 1994 American Sociological Association Award in the Distinguished Scholarly Publication category. . He is also the author of Sidewalk (1999), which tells the stories of vendors on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award. The subsequent ethnographic film Sidewalk (2010), with Barry Alexander Brown, begins where he left off the book. In 2016, he published Ghetto: the invention of a place, the story of an idea, which we now present. Professor Duneier has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the City University of New York, where he regularly taught as a visiting professor, before joining Princeton University. He was a member of the original advisory board for Public Radio International's This American Life. He is the stepbrother of Harvard political scientist Gary King.