Denis Baranger

UNSAM

Born on April 14, 1948. 2016 Konex Award winner. Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (UBA), Master’s degree in Social Sciences (FLACSO, Mexico), Ph.D. in Social Sciences (UBA). Tenured Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology (FHCS-UNaM) and Director of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPAS-UNaM) since 2014. Editor-in-Chief of *Avá: Journal of Social Anthropology*, and member of the Advisory Board of *Pensamiento Universitario*. Author of *Epistemology and Methodology in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu*, Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2005 (2nd ed., 2012); *Data Construction and Analysis: An Introduction to the Use of Quantitative Techniques in Social Research*. Posadas: Ed. Universitaria, 2001 (3rd ed., 2009); *Tobacco and Pesticides*, Posadas: Ed. Universitaria, 2007; and of articles published in scientific journals and books in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, France, Italy, and Mexico. He is currently working on the sociology of the social sciences in Argentina.