September 10, 1999

A Sociologist Examines Economy of the Urban Poor

By DENISE K. MAGNER

Few scholars put their lives on the line for their research.

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But it has come close to that more than once for Sudhir Venkatesh.

He first found himself in a jam in 1990, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, when he was cornered by

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