Margaret Somers

Margaret Somers
Born (1949-12-03) December 3, 1949
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Academic background
Alma materB.A. University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. Harvard University, 1986
InfluencesKarl Polanyi
Academic work
Notable worksGenealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge 2008)

Margaret R. Somers is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan She is the recipient of the inaugural Lewis A. Coser Award for Innovation and Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology, Somers's work specializes in historical, political, economic, and cultural sociology and social theory.

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