After a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, he came to Case Western Reserve University, where he now holds the E.B.Smith Chair in the Liberal Arts.

• 他在加州大学柏克莱分校社会系作过博士后研究，然后到美国俄亥俄州的凯斯西部保留大学任教，目前是史密斯人文学讲座教授。