Peter Bearman

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Peter Bearman is an American Sociologist, he is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), the direct descendant of the Bureau of Applied Social Research (BASR) founded by Paul Lazarsfeld.

Bearman designed with J. Richard Udry the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). From these data, Bearman has published seminal articles on the sexual network, virginity pledges, same sex attraction, and adolescent suicidality. He is widely credited with bringing network methods to the demographic and population research community. Bearman currently directs the Robert Wood Johnson Program in population health at Columbia University.

Bearman is the author of Doormen (University of Chicago Press, 2005) an ethnographic study of Doormen in New York City, as well as being the author of numerous articles in historical and general sociology.

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