CURRICULUM VITA

Peter  Kollock

Department of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
(310) 825-1313        
(310) 206-9838 (fax)

kollock@ucla.edu
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock

Personal

Date of Birth: 1 November 1959
Place of Birth: Zaragoza, Spain
Citizenship: USA

Education

Ph.D.	1990	University of Washington, (Sociology)
MA	1984	University of Washington, (Sociology)
BA	1982	University of Washington, (Sociology)

Research and Teaching Experience

1995-	Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1989-1995	Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1985-1989	Pre-Doctoral Instructor, University of Washington
1985-1989	Director, Teaching Assistant Training Program Department of Sociology, University of Washington
1984-1985	Co-Developer, Computerized System Of Instruction For Social Psychology, University of Washington
1983-1985	Supervisor, Laboratory for the Study of Social Exchange, University of Washington
1982-1983	Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
International Network for Social Network Analysis
International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Academic Honors

1995	Advancement of the Discipline Grant, ASA / National Science Foundation
1994	Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1992	Founder’s Prize, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
1992	Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, University of California, Los Angeles
1992	Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1989	Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington
1987	Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington
1982-1988	Research Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Washington
1982	University Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Washington
1982	BA with College Honors, Magna Cum Laude, University of Washington

The Getty Research Institute (1998)

Futures Industry Association (1998)

Microsoft Corporation, Advanced Technology Group (1998)

USIS, Embassy of the United States of America, Germany (1997)

The Club of Rome (1997)

MacArthur Foundation (1997)

Microsoft Corporation, Advanced Technology Group (1997)

Philips Corporation (1997)

LG Corporation, Korea (1997)

Korea University (1997)

SRI International (1997)

Futures Industry Association (1997)

Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (1997)

Harvard University (1996)

Microsoft Corporation, Advanced Technology Group (1996)

University of Michigan (1996)

Seattle University, Department of Sociology (1996)

Microsoft Corporation, Advanced Technology Group (1995)

University of Oregon, Department of Political Science (1994)

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology (1994)

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology (1994)

Institute for Social Research, Kyoto, Japan (1994)

University of Hokkaido, Department of Behavioral Science, Sapporo, Japan (1993)

University of Arizona, Department of Sociology (1993)

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology (1992)

Fields of Professional Interest

Cooperation and Collective Action
Online Communities and Markets
Economic Sociology
Social Exchange Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Social Psychology

Publications

Smith, Marc, and Peter Kollock (editors). Forthcoming (1998). Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. Forthcoming (1998). "Introduction: Communities in Cyberspace." In Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge.

Kollock, Peter. Forthcoming (1998). "The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace." In Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge.

Kollock, Peter. 1998. "Social Dilemmas: The Anatomy of Cooperation." Annual Review of Sociology 24:183-214.

Kollock, Peter. 1998. "Transforming Social Dilemmas: Group Identity and Cooperation." Pp. 186-210 in Modeling Rational and Moral Agents, edited by Peter Danielson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kollock, Peter. 1997. "Market Morphing." Futures Industry 7(7):15-17.

Kollock, Peter. 1996/1998. "Design Principles for Online Communities." Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society.  Also published in PC Update 15(5): 58-60. June 1998.

Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996. "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities." Pp. 109-128 in Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan Herring. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

O’Brien, Jodi and Peter Kollock. 1996. The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. (597 pp.)

Kollock, Peter. 1996. "The Logic and Practice of Generosity." American Sociological Review 61(2):341-346.

Kollock, Peter, Philip Blumstein, and Pepper Schwartz. 1994. "The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships." Social Psychology Quarterly 57(4):340-351.

Kollock, Peter. 1994. Review of "The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection" by Diego Gambetta. American Journal of Sociology 100(3):831-833.

Kollock, Peter. 1994. "The Emergence of Exchange Structures: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Commitment, and Trust." American Journal of Sociology 100(2):313-345.

Kollock, Peter. 1993. " ‘An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind’: Cooperation and Accounting Systems." American Sociological Review 58(6):768-786.

Kollock, Peter. 1993. "Cooperation in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Study." Sociological Theory and Methods 8(1):3-18.

Kollock, Peter, and Jodi O’Brien. 1993. The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings in Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. (517 pp.)

Kollock, Peter. 1992. "The Possibility of Cooperation." Contemporary Sociology 21(5):672-676.

Kollock, Peter, and Jodi O’Brien. 1992. "The Social Construction of Exchange." Pp. 89-112 in Advances in Group Processes (Vol. 9), edited by E. J. Lawler, B. Markovsky, C. Ridgeway, and H. A. Walker. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

O’Brien, Jodi, and Peter Kollock. 1991. "Social Exchange Theory as a Conceptual Framework for Teaching the Sociological Perspective." Teaching Sociology 19:140-53.

Blumstein, Philip, and Peter Kollock. Forthcoming. "A Social Constructionist Approach to Personal Relationships". In Theoretical Frameworks in Relationship Research, edited by Robin Gilmour. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cook, Karen S., Jodi O’Brien, and Peter Kollock. 1990. "Exchange Theory: A Blueprint for Structure and Process." Pp. 158-81 in Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses, edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press.

Blumstein, Philip, and Peter Kollock. 1988. "Personal Relationships." Annual Review of Sociology 14:467-90.

Kollock, Peter, Philip Blumstein, and Pepper Schwartz. 1985. "Sex and Power in Interaction: Conversational Privileges and Duties." American Sociological Review 50:34-46.

Work in Progress

Kollock, Peter. 1998. "The Production of Trust in Online Markets." WORKING DRAFT -- to be revised August 1998.  Final version to appear in: Advances in Group Processes (Vol. 16), edited by E. J. Lawler, M. Macy, S. Thyne, and H. A. Walker. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. 1999.

Kollock, Peter. "The Architecture of Cooperation: Practical Lessons from Virtual Worlds." Research project in progress.

Kollock, Peter. "The Social Dynamics of Open-Outcry Markets." Research project in progress.

Kollock, Peter. "Gift Exchange in Cyberspace: The Structure of Reciprocity in Internet Newsgroups." Research project in progress.

"The "Tiger's Cave" Experiments: A Proposal for a Web-Based Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research on Trust in Social Dilemmas." (with M. Macy and T. Yamagishi). Research project in progress.

"The Varieties of Exchange: Accounting Systems and the Structure of Relationships" (with E. Bienenstock ) Research project in progress.

"The Anatomy of Trust: Exchange in Japan and the United States" (with M. Macy & T. Yamagishi). Research project in progress.

"The Production of Social Capital: Building Rotating Credit Associations" (with I. Light). Research project in progress.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

"The Production of Trust in Informal Markets." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998.

"The Architecture of Cooperation: Practical Lessons from Virtual Worlds." Getty Research Institute Conference on Digital Communities.

"Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, 1997.

"Social Dilemmas and the Provision of Public Good in Online Communities." Seventh International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Cairns, Australia, 1997.

"The Economies of Online Cooperation." UCLA Conference on Computational Social Science, Los Angeles, 1997.

"Solidarity in Online Groups." Seattle University Conference on Group Solidarity, Seattle, 1996

"Communities in Cyberspace: Mapping the Structure of Online Groups" (with M. Smith). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.

"The Bases of Cooperation: Subjective Transformations of Strategic Interaction." First International Conference on Theory and Research in Group Processes, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1996.

"Design Principles for Online Communities." Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society, Cambridge, 1996.

"The Problem of Social Order." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC, 1995.

"The Foundations of Cooperation: Subjective Transformations of Strategic Interaction." Sixth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 1995.

"Cooperation and Free-Riding in Online Communities" (with M. Smith). Sixth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 1995.

"The Emergence of Trust: Experimental Studies." University of Oregon Conference on Trust, Eugene, 1994.

"Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities" (with M. Smith). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, 1994.

"Transforming Social Dilemmas." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, 1993.

"Networks and Rational Choice." Conference on Theory and Research on Group Processes, Miami, 1993.

"Group Identity and the Motivational Bases of Cooperation." Fifth Annual International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York, 1993.

"The Production of Trust: Cooperation, Commitment, and Group Formation" Hokkaido Conference on Trust, Sapporo, Japan, 1993.

"The Emergence of Exchange Structures: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Commitment, and Trust." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, 1992.

"The Motivational Bases of Social Order." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, 1992.

"The Emergence of Markets and Networks." Fourth Annual International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Irvine, 1992.

"The Measurement of Commitment in Exchange Networks." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, 1992.

"The Emergence of Cooperation in an Uncertain World: The Role of Generalized and Restricted Accounting Systems." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, 1991.

"The Construction of Group Solidarity: Rational Choice and Dramaturgy." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC, 1990.

"Tools of Social Psychology: Integration and Applications" (with J. O’Brien). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC, 1990.

"Social Exchange Theory as a Conceptual Framework for Teaching the Sociological Perspective" (with J. O’Brien). Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Spokane, 1990.

"Developing a Teaching Self: Toward Purposeful Teaching" (with J. O’Brien). Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Spokane, 1990.

"The Production of Trust: Identity and Commitment in the Emergence of Cooperation." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1989.

"Developing an Integrated Training Program for Teaching Assistants" (with J. O’Brien). Second National Conference on the Training and Employment of Teaching Assistants, Seattle, 1989.

"Commitment as Strategy: A Rational Response to the Constraints of Interaction?" (with J. O’Brien). Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Reno, 1989.

"The Economics of Thinking: Cognitive Science and Models of Social Action and Order." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 1988.

"The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships" (with P. Blumstein and P. Schwartz). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 1988.

"A Social Constructionist Approach to Personal Relationships" (with P. Blumstein). Fourth International Conference on Personal Relationships, Vancouver, Canada, 1988.

"Training Graduate Students to Teach" (with F. Campbell). Invited paper for the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Las Vegas, 1988.

"A Micro-Sociology of Close Relationships: The Case of Friendship" (with P. Blumstein). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 1987.

"Equity in Intimate Relationships" (with P. Blumstein and P. Schwartz). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1986.

"Sex and Power in Interaction" (with P. Blumstein and P. Schwartz). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Antonio, 1984.

Professional Activities

Member of the editorial board, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1996-present

Member of the editorial board, Contemporary Sociology, 1992-1994

Cooley-Mead Award Committee, Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, 1997-1998

Program Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association, 1994-1995

Program Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association, 1990-1991

Membership Committee, Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, 1994-1995

Graduate Student Affairs Committee, Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, 1996-1997

Organizer and chair, session on Preferences, Rationality, and Decisions, Fifth International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, New York, 1993

Organizer and chair, session on Network Applications in Social Psychology, International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, 1992

Organizer, sessions on Teaching Sociology, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Irvine, 1991

Co-Organizer, Conference on Group Solidarity, Seattle University, Seattle, 1996

Co-Organizer, Conference on Sociology and Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990.

Last Modified:  4 April 1998