David A SnowDavid A. Snow is a distinguished professor emeritus in sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Before joining UCI in 2001, he taught at Southern Methodist University (1975-76), the University of Texas, Austin (1976-1987), and the Universit of Arizona (1987-2001), where he was head of the Department of Sociology for almost a decade. He earned a BA from Ohio University, a MA in urban studies from the University of Akron, and his PhD in sociology from UCLA.His teaching and research have concentrated on collective behavior and social movements; socioeconomic marginality with an emphasis on homelessness; social psychology with a focus on framing processes, conversion, and identity; religion and the persistence of belief; and ethnographic field methods. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics, and of twelve academic books, including the award-winning Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with L. Anderson).Dr. Snow is past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and vice president of the American Sociological Association. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including the American Sociological Association's 2025 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, the association's highest honor.He is a veteran who was drafted into the US Army in the late 1960s and was employed afterward for a year as a juvenile parole officer in Cleveland prior to initiating his graduate studies. He was married for thirty-seven years to his late wife, Judy, who succumbed to a long battle with cancer, and has been with his current partner and wife, Roberta, for the past twenty years. He has three children and four grandchildren. In addition to relishing the time he spends with them, he enjoys reading widely, cooking, particularly French and Italian cuisine, lap swimming, walking, listening to music of all kinds, and traveling and hanging out with Roberta and family. Read More Read Less