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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Social Theory
• Urban Sociology
• Sociology of Culture

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Classic Sociological Theory I
• Classic Sociological Theory II

Affiliations

• American Sociological Association (theory, Culture and urban sections)
• North Central Sociological Association
• American Political Science Association

Awards & Grants

• 2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, "The Canadian Scenescape: Structure and Consequences." $29,274
• 2008 University of Toronto Connaught Start-Up Award, "Urban Scenes: theory, History, Measure, Impacts." $10, 000 Principal Investigator
• 2007 Selected as one of two "Promising young scholars" to be sponsored by the American Center in Hamburg (associated with the American General Consulate) for the European Sociological Association Conference on the Arts and Society (April 2007)
• NIA Pre-doctoral Training Fellow (2006-2008)

Publications

• The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Chapters by Georg Simmel. translated by John Andrews, with an Introduction by Donald Levine and Daniel Silver (University of Chicago Press), forthcoming 2010
• Silver, Daniel, Terry Nichols Clark, and Clemente Navarro. 2010. "Scenes: Social Context in an Age of Contingency." Social Forces, July 2010.
• Silver, Daniel; Lee, Monica; Moore, Robert. 2007. "The view of Life: A simmelian Reading of Simmel’s Testament" Simmel Studies, v. 17, no. 1, pp. 265-290.
• Silver, Daniel. 2006. "Religion without Instrumentalization," European Journal of Sociology, v.47, no.3, pp. 421-434.
• Levine, Donald and Silver, Daniel. Forthcoming, 2010. "Introduction to Simmel’s View of Life," in the View of Life: Four Metaphysical Chapters, tr. John Andrews, ed. Donald Levine. University of Chicago Press.