School of Communication faculty member to spend a year at NU-Q

Larissa Buchholz, an assistant professor in the School of Communication, will join the NU-Q faculty for the 2019-20 academic year. 

Buchholz joined Northwestern in 2016 from Harvard University where she held a junior fellow appointment in the Society of Fellows. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and a master’s, also in sociology, at Stony Brook University.  She also has a M.A. in cultural sciences from Leuphana University in Germany.   At Columbia, she won the Robert K. Merton Dissertation Award and was winner of the Outstanding Dissertation of the American Sociological Association. 

At NU-Q, she will teach Culture and Globalization, the Construction of Value in Cultural Markets, and Creativity in Context in the Communication Program. 

Buchholz has authored refereed journal articles and book chapters in such publications as The Sociological Review, Visual Arts Journal, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media & the Arts, Annual Review of Sociology and Theory and Society. Her ongoing projects include the books The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence of a Dual Cultural World Economy and The Making of Cosmopolitan Taste: The Love of Art Among Global Elites.   

Her honors and awards include an invited Faculty Fellowship in Yale University’s Critical Realism Network, a Junior Theorist Award from the American Sociological Association, Junior Theorist Prize from the International Sociological Association, and an Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from Columbia University. At Columbia, she won the Robert K. Merton Dissertation Award and was a winner of the Outstanding Dissertation of the American Sociological Association.