Patrick Sheehan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University.

He is an ethnographer who studies social life at the intersection of work, culture, inequality, and technological change. His research has been published in American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Work & Occupations, and Contexts and has won awards from the ASA sections on Culture; Organizations, Occupations, and Work; and Economic Sociology.

Patrick’s current and past research cover topics including: the rise of the life and career coach industry, “hype” culture in Silicon Valley start-ups, attitudes and experiences with firearms among college students, and the use of testosterone among American men.

Patrick earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and his BA from the University for California, Santa Barbara. He has held positions as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, Germany. Before graduate school, Patrick taught 2nd grade in Detroit, Michigan, and worked as a labor organizer for the United Teachers Los Angeles.

You can find Patrick’s CV in the navigation bar on the left side.

You can contact Patrick at sheehan5@bu.edu