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Nicholas Hoover Wilson

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Associate Professor
nicholas.wilson@stonybrook.edu
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Areas of Interest

Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Political Economy; Culture, Moralilty, and Knowledge; Sociological and Social Theory; Colonialism and Empire; Computational Social Science

Bio

Wilson's research focuses on the historical sociology of empires and colonialism, through the case of the English East India Trading Company's presence in South Asia.  In addition, Wilson studies the methodology of interdisciplinary research, transformations in the historical category of corruption, the sociology of knowledge and morality, fiscal sociology, and the philosophy of social science.

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Selected Recent Publications

Forthcoming (March 2024):  After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology. (Co-edited with  Damon Mayrl.) Columbia University Press.

2023.  Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India. New York:   Columbia University Press.

2023.  “Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case   of SSHA” (With Damon Mayrl, Matthew Mahler, and Josh Pacewicz.)  Social Science History.

2023.  “Words That Bind: Moral Obligation, Textual Epistemology, and Globalizing Legal Power.” (Essay on Laura Ford’s The Intellectual Property of Nations.  Second Author with Danielle Lucksted.)  The American Sociologist.  (54) 238-250.

2020. Mayrl, Damon, and Nicholas Hoover Wilson. "The archive as a social world." Qualitative Sociology 43.3 (2020): 407-426.

2020. Mayrl, Damon, and Nicholas Hoover Wilson. "What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Analytic Architectures in Historical Sociology." American Journal of Sociology 125.5 (2020): 1345-1394.