Claude S. Fischer is a semi-retired professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Sociology. He holds undergraduate and PhD degrees from UCLA and Harvard respectively, and has worked for Berkeley's Sociology Department for nearly fifty years (having joined in 1972). He has published eight books which centre around the themes of urbanism, networking, communication, inequality and family life in American society. He was also the founding editor of Contexts, the American Sociological Association's magazine of sociology for the general reader, 2001 - 2004. Fischer has won multiple awards and nominations over the course of his tenure, some of which include the 1986 Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1995 Dexter Prize (Outstanding Book), and 1996 Robert and Helen Lynd Award, among others. 

You can read more about Fischer on his UC Berkeley profile or Wikipedia page. Further, be sure to check out his blog, Made in America. On this episode, we discuss the array of the themes his research covers. 

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