#  Mario Luis Small 

PhD in Sociology, 2001

Quetelet Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

 

 

 



   ![Mario Luis Small](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/inequality/files/smallmario17.jpg?itok=E1kS_q9a) 

 



 

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*Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020.  
Elected to American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 2020.  
University of Bremen Excellence Chair, 2020.  
Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University, 2020*

   ![Someone To Talk To, by Mario Luis Small](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/small17bk_0.jpg?itok=tla7Eppp) 

 

Mario Luis Small's latet book, [Someone To Talk To](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/someone-to-talk-to-9780190661427?cc=us&lang=en&#), examines how people use their networks to cope with loss, victimization, failure, and other debilitating stressors. Oxford University Press (2017). *Best Publication, Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.*

 *Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.*

 *James Coleman Award for Best Book, Rationality and Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.*

   ![Unanticipated Gains](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/smallbk09.jpg?itok=Ny-CXFeh) 

 

Mario Luis Small's second book, [Unanticipated Gains, Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life](http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/SocialStratification/?view=usa&ci=9780195384352), has been published by Oxford University Press (2009). *Winner of the 2009 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.*

   ![Villa Victoria](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/smallbk04_0.jpg?itok=sENJp5FI) 

 

Mario Luis Small's first book, *[Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo3614252.html)*, has been published by University of Chicago Press (2004). *Winner of the 2005 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.*

 *Winner of the 2005 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology](/alumni-department/sociology)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2001](/alumni-year/2001)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)