Rob Faulkner is a professor in the Department of Sociology.  He is a member of the Faculty Senate and a Senator on the Rules Committee.  He is also a musician whose present research involves participant observation of repertoires in action within creative jazz groups, social networks, and culture reproduction, and is preparing a session in the recording studio with with Jay Messer, Dave Shapiro and Paul Lieberman.  Professor Faulkner recently traveled to Poland to present the Dean's Lecture at the Institute for Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, titled "Repertoires of Wrongdoing in Markets."  He also presented a paper and musical performance at Centre Michel Foucault at the University of Warsaw titled "Participant Observation and Improvisation: A View from the Band Stand."

Areas of Interest:
Culture, Organization, Corporate Crime, Methods.

Recent Grants :
2006-08. NSF. Repertoire in Action among Musicians. Co-PI: Howie Becker.

Recent Publications:
"Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action. University of Chicago Press, 2009. With Howard S. Becker.

"Improvising on Sensitizing Concepts."  In The Story Behind the Story of Ethnographies, A. J. Puddenphatt et al. (eds.), New York: Routledge: ch. 4, 2009.

"Social Capital, Double Embeddedness, and Mechanisms of Stability and Change." American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue: Social Capital and Social Networks 20(10), 2009. With Wayne E. Baker.

"Studying Something You Are Part of: The View from the Bandstand." Ethnologie Francaise 38(11):15-21, 2008. With Howard S. Becker.

"Le Repertoire de Jazz." In Enonciation Artistique et Socialite, Jean-Phillipe Uzel (ed.), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. With Howard Becker.

"Social Networks and Loss of Capital." Social Networks 26:91-111, 2004. With Wayne E. Baker.

"Diffusion of Fraud: Intermediate Economic Crime and Investor Dynamics." American Society of Criminology 41(4):1173-1206, 2003. With Wayne E. Baker.

"Crime by Committee: Conspirators and Company Men in the Illegal Electrical Industry Cartel, 1954-1959." American Society of Criminology 41(2):511-54, 2003. With Eric R. Cheney, Gene A. Fisher and Wayne E. Baker.