CONTRIBUTOR:

Jennifer C. Lena

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Sociology

INSTITUTION:

Columbia University

BIOGRAPHY:

Jennifer C. Lena is Associate Professor and Program Director of Arts Administration at Columbia University, Teachers College, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on understanding processes of cultural classification, status, and production. Lena is the author of Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton University Press, 2012). She is co-editor of the Culture and Economic Life book series, published by Stanford University Press and Chair of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. URL: http://sociology.columbia.edu/people/faculty/jennifer-c-lena