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Emily Erikson is the Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship and Professor of Sociology at Yale University, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Management. She chairs the Department of Sociology and serves on multiple editorial and advisory boards, including the American Sociological Association’s Economic Sociology Section and the Social Science History Association. Her research focuses on social networks, economic development, comparative historical sociology, and the interplay between political and commercial institutions.
Erikson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University (2006). Her seminal works include Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (2021) and Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company (2014), which won multiple awards including the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize and the James Coleman Award. Her scholarship bridges historical analysis, network theory, and institutional frameworks to examine how economic ideas and global trade systems evolved.
Her research has been published in top journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, and Journal of Economic History. Key themes include the role of early modern corporations in shaping economic thought, the dynamics of state-merchant relations, and the application of network analysis to macrosocial change. She also co-edits volumes exploring organizational forms and their societal impacts.
Erikson teaches courses on social theory, economic sociology, and network analysis. She is affiliated with Yale’s Institute for Network Science, the Center for Comparative Research, and the South Asian Council. Her work frequently addresses transnational networks, historical institutionalism, and the globalization of economic practices.
