Kieran Healy
Professor of Sociology
Much of my research has been about exchange in human blood and organs, cultural goods, software, and ideas. My current work focuses on the moral order of market society, the effect of models and measurement on social classification, and the link between those two topics, especially in the consumer credit market. I’m also interested in techniques and methods for data visualization.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019
- Professor in the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Kenan Institute for Ethics, University Institutes and Centers 2019
Contact Information
- 268 Sociology/Psychology Bld, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
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kieran.healy@duke.edu
(919) 660-5614
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Personal Website
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Princeton University 2001
- M.A., Princeton University 1998
- M.A., University College, Cork (Ireland) 1994
- A.B., University College, Cork (Ireland) 1993
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor in the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Kenan Institute for Ethics, University Institutes and Centers 2009 - 2019
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2019
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
- Visiting Associate Professor, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2009
- Recognition
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In the News
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JUN 11, 2013 The Birmingham News
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Awards & Honors
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Healy, K. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.Link to Item
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Healy, Kieran. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Academic Articles
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Edwards, Frank, Sara Wakefield, Kieran Healy, and Christopher Wildeman. “Reply to Putnam-Hornstein et al.: On honest mistakes and raceless children.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, no. 49 (December 2021): e2116225118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116225118.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Edwards, F., S. Wakefield, K. Healy, and C. Wildeman. “Erratum: Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2021) 118 (e2106272118) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106272118).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, no. 42 (October 19, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116639118.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Edwards, Frank, Sara Wakefield, Kieran Healy, and Christopher Wildeman. “Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, no. 30 (July 2021): e2106272118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106272118.Full Text
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Paul, L. A., and Kieran Healy. “Transformative Treatments.” Noûs 52, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 320–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12180.Full Text
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Healy, Kieran. “By the Numbers - Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder, Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability (New York, Russell Sage, 2016).” European Journal of Sociology 58, no. 3 (December 2017): 512–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975617000315.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Healy, K. “Public Sociology in the Age of Social Media.” Perspectives on Politics 15, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 771–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000950.Full Text
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Healy, K. “Fuck Nuance.” Sociological Theory 35, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 118–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275117709046.Full Text
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Healy, Kieran, and Kimberly Krawiec. “Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body.” The American Economic Review 107, no. 5 (May 2017): 86–90. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171108.Full Text
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Fourcade, M., and K. Healy. “Seeing like a market.” Socio Economic Review 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 9–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mww033.Full Text
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Fourcade, M., and K. Healy. “Classification situations: Life-chances in the Neoliberal Era.” Historical Social Research 42, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 23–51. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.1.23-51.Full Text
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Fourcade, M., and K. Healy. “Categories all the way down.” Historical Social Research 42, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 286–96. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.1.286-296.Full Text
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Krawiec, K., and K. Healy. “Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body.” American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 107 (2017): 1–5.Link to Item
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Healy, K. “The Performativity of Networks.” Archives Europeennes De Sociologie 56, no. 2 (August 7, 2015): 175–205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975615000107.Full Text
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Healy, Kieran, and James Moody. “Data Visualization in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (July 2014): 105–28. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145551.Full Text
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Fourcade, M., and K. Healy. “Classification situations: Life-chances in the neoliberal era.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 38, no. 8 (January 1, 2013): 559–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2013.11.002.Full Text
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Appleman, Laura I., Shawn Bayern, Adam D. Chandler, Robert D. Cheren, Miriam A. Cherry, Ross E. Davies, Lee Anne Fennell, et al. “Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'.” Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, no. 2 (2012).
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Krawiec, K., and K. Healy. “Custom, Contract, and Kidney Exchange.” Duke Law Journal 62 (2012): 645–70.Link to Item
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Healy, K., M. Hutter, and W. N. Espeland. “Lucien Karpik valuing the unique: The economics of singularities. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010.” Socio Economic Review 9, no. 4 (October 1, 2011): 787–800. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwr010.Full Text
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“Counting and Commodifying.” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 35 (2011): 337–47.
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Healy, K. “Judgment and Disctinction.” Socio Economic Review 9 (2011): 787–800.
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Healy, Kieran. “Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism. By Brooke Harrington. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 256. $32.95.” American Journal of Sociology 115, no. 1 (July 2009): 309–12. https://doi.org/10.1086/605757.Full Text
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Fourcade, Marion, and Kieran Healy. “Moral Views of Market Society.” Annual Review of Sociology 33 (2007): 285–311.
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Healy, Kieran. “Do Presumed Consent Laws Raise Organ Procurement Rates?” Depaul Law Review 55 (2006): 1017–43.
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Healy, Kieran. “Altruism as an Organizational Problem: The Case of Organ Procurement.” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 387–404.
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Healy, K. “Survey article: Digital technology and cultural goods.” Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 4 (January 1, 2002): 478–500. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9760.00162.Full Text
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Healy, Kieran. “Digital Technology and Cultural Goods.” Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2002): 478-500–478–500.
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Healy, K. “The Emergence of HIV in the U.S. Blood Supply: Organizations, Obligations, and the Management of Uncertainty.” Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory 32 (August 1, 1999): 86–103.Link to Item
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Healy, K. “The emergence of HIV in the U.S. blood supply: Organizations, obligations, and the management of uncertainty.” Theory and Society 28, no. 4 (August 1, 1999): 529–58. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007011517612.Full Text
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Healy, Kieran. “Conceptualising constraint: Mouzelis, Archer and the concept of social structure.” Sociology 32 (1998): 509-522–509–522.
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Healy, K. “Data Visualization in Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (n.d.): 105–28.Link to Item
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Healy, K. “Explaining the OECD Wage Slowdown: Recession or Labor Decline?” European Sociological Review 15 (n.d.): 233–49.Link to Item
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Healy, K. “Embedded Altruism: Blood Collection Regimes and the European Union's Donor Population.” American Journal of Sociology 105 (n.d.): 1633–57.Link to Item
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Healy, K. “What's New for Culture in the New Economy.” The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 32 (n.d.): 86–103.Link to Item
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Book Sections
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Krawiec, K., and K. Healy. “Organ Entrepreneurs (Accepted).” In The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship. Cambridge University Press, 2019.Link to Item
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Healy, Kieran. “Social Structure, Gifts and Norms in ’The Story of Qiu Ju’.” edited by Michael Baurmann. Nomos Verlag, 2009.
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Healy, K. “Sociology.” In A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, 88–117, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405177245.ch4.Full Text
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Healy, K. “Sociology.” In A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, 90-122–90–122. Blackwell, New York, 2008.
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Healy, Kieran. “Lo Scambio di Doni.” edited by Anamaria Fantauzzi, 36–42. AVIS Nationale, 2008.
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Healy, K. “Sacred Markets and Secular Ritual in the Organ Transplant Industry.” In The Sociology of the Economy, edited by Frank Dobbin, 336–59. Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
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Healy, K. “Sacred markets and secular ritual in the organ transplant industry.” In The Sociology of the Economy, 308–32, 2004.
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Healy, K. “Wage Growth and Labor Decline in the Industrialized Democracies, 1965-1993.” In Unemployment in the New Europe, edited by Nancy Bermeo. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Healy, K. “The New Institutionalism and Irish Social Policy.” In Social Policy in Ireland: Principles, Practice and Problems, edited by S. Healy and B. Reynolds, 59–83. Dublin, Ireland: Oak Tree Press, n.d.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- SOCIOL 232: Data Visualization for Social Science 2023
- SOCIOL 880: Special Topics in Sociology 2023
- SOCIOL 232: Data Visualization for Social Science 2022
- SOCIOL 355: Organizations and Management 2022
- SOCIOL 710: Classical Sociological Theory 2022
- SOCIOL 711: Contemporary Approaches to Sociological Explanation 2022
- SOCIOL 890: Special Readings 2022
- SOCIOL 355: Organizations and Management 2021
- SOCIOL 710: Classical Sociological Theory 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Dealing With Difficult Relations. ASA Meetings. ASA. December 13, 2011 2011
- Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society. SASE Meetings. SASE. December 13, 2011 2011
- For Love or Money. December 1, 2010 2010
- Specialization and Status in Philosophy. December 1, 2010 2010
- Gift Fetishism and the Market for Human Organs. October 1, 2009 2009
- Economic Categories and Claims in Neoliberal Society. August 1, 2009 2009
- Specialization and Status in Philosophy. May 1, 2009 2009
- Specialization and Status in Philosophy. April 1, 2009 2009
- Specialization and Status in Philosophy. April 1, 2009 2009
- Specialization and Status in Philosophy. February 1, 2009 2009
- The Performativity of Networks. January 1, 2009 2009
- The Performativity of Networks. October 1, 2008 2008
- The Performativity of Networks. March 1, 2008 2008
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Service to the Profession
- Editorial Board Member : Contemporary Sociology. 2011 2011
- Reviewer, Economics and Philosophy. December 30, 2010 2010
- Reviewer, Theory and Society. 2010 2010
- Reviewer, University of California Press. 2010 2010
- Reviewer, University of Minnesota Press. 2010 2010
- Reviewer, American Journal of Transplantation. December 15, 2009 2009
- Reviewer, Cambridge University Press. December 15, 2009 2009
- Consulting Editor : American Journal of Sociology. 2009 - 2011 2009 - 2011
- Editorial Board, Socioeconomic Review. 2009 2009
- Editorial board, American Journal of Sociology. 2009 2009
- Reviewer, Oxford University Press. 2009 2009
- Reviewer, University of Chicago Press. 2009 2009
- Editorial Board, Contexts. 2008 - December 31, 2010 2008 - 2010
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