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Recommended Reading
Shapira, Harel (2013). Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America. Princeton University Press.
Shapira, Harel, and Samantha J. Simon (2018). “Learning to Need a Gun.” Qualitative Sociology 41 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-018-9374-2.
Shapira, Harel (2026). Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America. Pantheon.
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Harel Shapira, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
The University of Texas at Austin
Born in 1979 in Haifa, Israel
B.A. in Sociology, The University of Chicago, Ph.D.in Sociology, Columbia University
Arbeitsvorhaben
An Economy of Violence: Diversity and Death at an American Gun Store
During my time at the Wissenschaftskolleg I will be working on two book manuscripts. The first, An Economy of Violence, is an ethnography of a gun store in Texas. I draw on my year working at a gun store in order to analyze how guns are purchased and sold. The second, The Craft of Ethnography, is a book on methods that I am writing together with Forrest Stuart (Stanford, Sociology) that collapses the distinction between the collection and the analysis of data, by showing how the very act of collecting ethnographic data can be turned into analysis of that data.Recommended Reading
Shapira, Harel (2013). Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America. Princeton University Press.
Shapira, Harel, and Samantha J. Simon (2018). “Learning to Need a Gun.” Qualitative Sociology 41 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-018-9374-2.
Shapira, Harel (2026). Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America. Pantheon.