Bruce Western

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bruce Western
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Jul 1, 1964(1964-07-01)
Age	60
Birthplace	Canberra
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Cancer

Bruce Western Biography

Bruce Western is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on July 1, 1964 in Canberra, Australia.

Western was born in Australia, to a white native Australian father who taught at the University of Queensland, and a Thai international student mother. His father was John Western. He became interested in inequality in Australia growing up in Queensland, where he, his brother, and their mother stood out as racial minorities. He received his B.A. in government with honors from the University of Queensland in 1987. That year, Western then became a student in the doctoral program in sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with the intention of both working with sociologist Iván Szelényi and fulfilling a long-held dream of living in New York City. Szelenyi left the Graduate Center in 1988, and Western followed him to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he subsequently received his masters’ and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

In 2005, while on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, Western received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his project, “The Growth and Consequences of American Inequality.” His book “Punishment and Inequality in America” won both the 2008 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology and the 2007 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. Western was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Bruce Western Net Worth

Bruce Western is one of the richest Sociologist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bruce Western 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bruce Prichart Western (born July 1, 1964) is an Australian-born American sociologist and a professor of sociology at Columbia University. He has been called “one of the leading academic experts on American incarceration.”

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Bustami Ranked on the list of most popular Sociologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Bruce Western celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.