In their best-seller Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner tell the story of a grad student, Sudhir Venkatesh, who entered poor black Chicago neighborhoods armed with a wonky ...

In Sudhir Venkatesh's The Tomorrow Game, two teenagers on Chicago's South Side face each other in a story that conveys the pressures and motivations boys face when buying guns. Venkatesh, a ...

The story is told in "The Tomorrow Game," the new book from Sudhir Venkatesh. He's a professor of sociology and African American studies at Columbia University, and he joins me now.

The many faces of Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh spring from an identity crisis that welled inside him as an immigrant’s son in Syracuse, N.Y., and reached a boiling point one sunny afternoon several ...

Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh has spent years living and working among the urban poor in an effort to understand how people survive amid poverty. His previous books include American Project, a ...

When Sudhir Venkatesh first ventured into the Lake Park housing project in Chicago, it was 1989, he was a sociology grad student at the University of Chicago, and he was wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt ...

During the height of the crack epidemic, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh went into one of the nation’s most notorious housing projects, Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, and learned how the d… ...

I had heard Sudhir Venkatesh on National Public Radio a few weeks earlier; he is the author of Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets.

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh ($26, Penguin Press, 2008). Love it or hate it, the 2005 best-seller Freakonomics appealed to readers because it ...

...is the story of Sudhir Venkatesh's seven years spent with one of the most violent crack-dealing gangs in some of the worst projects in the country. While researching his book, Venkatesh met ...

Sudhir Venkatesh, c. 1973 Sudhir Venkatesh celebrates earning his Ph.D. He's gone on to become one of the best-known experts on gang life. The book cover for Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh ...

At first glance, Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day looks something like a spin-off television show. Venkatesh was featured in Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt’s bestselling Freakonomics as the ...