Benjamin Lind

Benjamin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sociology and the Centre for Advanced Studies at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics.  Within the area of social movements, his research areas include social networks, the American labor movement, and methods.  His dissertation analyzed the growth of labor contention in the United States during the late nineteenth century, questioning how some local events escalated into large-scale social upheaval.  Ben’s work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Emergency Management, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, and elsewhere.