Calvin Morrill

Calvin Morrill is Professor of Sociology, Management, and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests span law and society, organizational conflict and change, qualitative field methods, youth conflict and violence, sociology of culture and language, and social network analysis. His book, The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations (University of Chicago Press), won the 1997 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 1996, and was selected as a 1995 "Best Nonfiction Book" by the Chicago Tribune. His forthcoming books include, Codes of Conflict: Youth Culture and Violence in a Multiethnic High School, co-authored with Michael Musheno (University of Chicago Press); Law and Society: Psychological, Sociological, and Legal Perspectives, co-authored with Bruce Sales (American Psychological Association Press), and Personal Relationships in Public Contexts: Studies in Relational Ethnography, co-edited with David A. Snow and Cindy White (University of California Press). He served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Board for the Arizona Supreme Court and sits on the executive council for the Sociology of Law Section in the American Sociological Association. He previously taught at the University of Arizona, received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Harvard University, and his B.A. in Sociology and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara.