Jeremy Freese
{{Short description|American sociologist}}
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| birth_name = Jeremy Jay Freese
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|03|15}}
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| fields = Sociology
| workplaces = Northwestern University
Stanford University
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| education = University of Iowa
Indiana University Bloomington
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| thesis_title = What Should Sociology Do about Darwin?: Evaluating Some Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology
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| thesis_year = 2000
| doctoral_advisor = Brian Powell
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Jeremy Jay Freese (born March 15, 1971){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002079279.html |title=Freese, Jeremy |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |access-date=2020-01-02}} is an American sociologist and author.
Work life
Freese is a professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he is also the co-leader of the Health Disparities Working Group in the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences.{{Cite web |url=https://sociology.stanford.edu/people/jeremy-freese |title=Jeremy Freese |website=Stanford Sociology |language=en |access-date=2020-01-02}} He previously served as professor of sociology at Northwestern University from 2007 to 2015, where he chaired the Department of Sociology from 2010 to 2013 and served as Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Sociology from 2013 to 2015.{{Cite web |url=http://www.boydetective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/jfreese_vita-2019.pdf |title=Jeremy Freese Curriculum Vitae |access-date=2020-01-02}}
Video game design
In 2008, he created the interactive fiction computer game Violet,{{Cite journal |last=Smaglik |first=Paul |date=November 2008 |title=Computer game offers academics a chance to play role of graduate student |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=456 |issue=7221 |pages=539 |doi=10.1038/nj7221-539a |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free }} which won the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition and multiple awards.
Blogging
Freese began blogging in 2003. In 2007, he was one of four sociologist bloggers profiled in the American Sociological Association's magazine Footnotes.{{Cite web |url=http://jeremyfreese.blogspot.com/2003/07/entry-level-entry.html |title=jeremy freese's weblog: entry-level entry |last=Jeremy |date=2003-07-08 |website=jeremy freese's weblog |access-date=2020-01-02}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/feb07/fn3.html |title=Portrait of the Sociologist as Blogger |last=Rice |first=LaVon |date=2007 |website=Footnotes |access-date=2020-01-02}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.boydetective.net/}}
- [https://sociology.stanford.edu/people/jeremy-freese Faculty page]
- {{Google Scholar id|-SPDJL0AAAAJ}}
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Category:American sociologists
Category:University of Iowa alumni
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