Nicholas Hoover Wilson
Associate Professor
Sociology, History, Asian & Asian-American Studies, Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Interests: Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Political Economy; Culture, Moralilty, and Knowledge; Sociological and Social Theory; Colonialism and Empire; Computational Social Science
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Bio:
Wilson's research focuses on the historical sociology of empires and colonialism, through the case of the English East India Trading Company's presence in South Asia. In addition, Wilson studies the methodology of interdisciplinary research, transformations in the historical category of corruption, the sociology of knowledge and morality, fiscal sociology, and the philosophy of social science.
Select Works:
After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology. Columbia University Press.
Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India. Columbia University Press.
Theorizing Subdisciplinary Exchange: Historical Sociology, Ethnography, and the Case of SSHA. Social Science History. 2024;48(2):259-284. doi:10.1017/ssh.2023.31
Words That Bind: Moral Obligation, Textual Epistemology, and Globalizing Legal Power. Am Sociol. 2023 Feb 24:1-13. doi: 10.1007/s12108-023-09564-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36855521; PMCID: PMC9951148.
The Archive as a Social World. Qual Sociol 43, 407–426 (2020).