Adam D. Reich

Adam D. Reich serves as Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and co-director of the Columbia Labor Lab, specializing in economic and cultural sociology through ethnographic methodologies.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (2012)

Reich's research spans Economic Sociology, Health & Population, Organizations, Political Sociology, and Ethnography, with concentrated expertise in labor movement dynamics, retail industry worker organization, and the political economy of mass incarceration. His fieldwork emphasizes community-based conflict resolution within corporate environments.

Publication trends reveal consistent focus on labor-carceral intersections, exemplified by his 2018 book analyzing Walmart worker-community coalitions, alongside co-authored studies on prison labor political economy and criminogenic risk assessment frameworks.

As Columbia Labor Lab co-director, Reich spearheads research partnerships between academic sociology and labor unions, generating actionable insights for contemporary worker organizing movements through collaborative field studies.