Arne L. Kalleberg

Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Born in Larvik, Norway, he attended Stuyvesant High School in NYC and received his BA from Brooklyn College in 1971 (from which he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009). He obtained his MA (1972) and PhD (1975) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1986, he was a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Germany, Norway, South Korea, and Sweden. Kalleberg’s research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the Norwegian Research Council. He served as Secretary of the American Sociological Association (ASA) from 2001-2004 and as its President in 2007-2008 (Footnotes Bio). He received the ASA’s W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2026 as well as career achievement awards from two sections of the ASA (Inequality, Poverty and Mobility; and Organizations, Occupations, and Work). Kalleberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. From 2010-2026, Kalleberg was the editor of Social Forces, An International Journal of Social Research.