Monica Prasad

Monica Prasad
Monica Prasad
	Prasad in 2011
Occupation	Professor of Sociology
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Academic work
Discipline	Sociologist
Sub-discipline	Political sociology, economic sociology, comparative sociology
Institutions	Northwestern University

Monica Prasad is an American sociologist who has won several awards for her books on economic and political sociology.

Prasad is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a 2015 Guggenheim fellow. Her research interests are in the areas of economic sociology, political sociology and comparative historical sociology.^[1] As of 2022^[update], her research investigated market-oriented welfare policies in Europe and their economic consequences.^[2]

Education

Prasad studied for her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.^[3]

Prasad was awarded a National Science Foundation Early Career Development Grant and, in 2011, received a Fulbright grant to study at Sciences Po in Paris.^[4]

Career

In 2010, Prasad was a committee member for the Theory Prize, awarded by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association for outstanding books and papers in the work of theory.^[5]

In 2015, Prasad was selected as one of 173 Guggenheim fellows, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation-sponsored scholarship.^[1]^[6]

Prasad is the author of several academic works. In her 2006 book The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, she argues that countries' different political climates and policy regimes resulted in divergent types of neoliberalism.^[7] Her 2013 book The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty examines why the United States has significantly higher levels of poverty and inequality than other rich countries and the impact of government intervention on undermining the welfare state.^[8] In 2018, Prasad's Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution was published.^[9]

Prasad is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.^[10]

Awards

Prasad has twice won the Barrington Moore Book Award from the Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, first in 2007 for her book The Politics of Free Markets, and again in 2013 for The Land of Too Much, as a co-winner with Michael Mann.^[11] In 2014, she was awarded the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for The Land of Too Much. This award celebrates the best book published by an ASA member in the preceding two years.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b Pager, Tyler (2015-04-14). "Two Northwestern professors named Guggenheim fellows". The Daily Northwestern. Archived from the original on 21 September 2020.
^ "Monica Prasad: Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University". www.ipr.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019.
^ Fox, Justin (18 January 2019). "Why Republicans Fell in Love With Tax Cuts". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
^ "Monica Prasad: Department of Sociology - Northwestern University". www.sociology.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
^ "Theory Prize". Theory Section. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
^ "Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to three faculty, 16 alumni". YaleNews. 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
^ Krippner, Greta (2007). "The Rise of Neoliberalism: The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States by Monica Prasad University of Chicago Press, 2006, 280 pages". Contexts. 6 (1): 67–69. doi:10.1525/ctx.2007.6.1.67. ISSN 1536-5042. S2CID 147584730.
^ "The Land of Too Much". American Sociological Association. 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
^ "Starving the Beast | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
^ "Monica Prasad, Author at Niskanen Center". Retrieved 2020-04-29.
^ "Barrington Moore Book Award – Comparative and Historical Sociology". Retrieved 2019-03-19.
^ "Distinguished Scholarly Book Award". American Sociological Association. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2019-03-18.