Brooke Harrington
# Brooke Harrington

Elisabeth Brooke Harrington, born 1968, is an American academic and author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.

## Early life

In 1990, Harrington earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Stanford University. In 1996, Harrington earned a master's degree in sociology, from Harvard University. In 1999, Harrington earned a PhD degree in sociology, from Harvard University.

## Career

From 1999 to 2007, Harrington was Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brown University. From 2006 to 2009, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She was a professor of economic sociology at the Copenhagen Business School, 2010–2018. In 2017, she faced legal difficulties with the authorities in Denmark about a visa dispute, even though she had been invited to speak as a guest lecturer to the Danish Parliament; the dispute ended eight months later when Denmark changed its laws. She is an advocate against xenophobia and for the benefits of immigration. In January 2019, she became a Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

## Works

* Harrington, Brooke (1999). Dollars for Difference: The "Diversity Premium" in Investing Organizations. Harvard University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
* Harrington, Brooke (2007). Capital and Community: Findings from the American Investment Craze of the 1990s. Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter, 8(3), 19-25.
* Harrington, Brooke (2008). Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691128320.
* Harrington, Brooke, ed. (2009). Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804756495.
* Harrington, Brooke (2016). Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674743809.
