Amin Ghaziani earned a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research is organized around the study of culture, social movements, sexuality, and cities. Published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008, his book -- The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington -- investigates the problem of infighting across four Marches on Washington that span 30 years of political organizing. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses, he concludes that under certain conditions dissent may have unexpectedly positive, integrative, and generative effects. The book won the 2009 Charles Tilly Honorable Mention Award for Best Book in Collective Behavior / Social Movements from the American Sociological Association. His article publications have addressed the problem of measurement in the study of culture; how infighting informs the cultural development of small groups; the contested relationship between annual Gay Pride parades and Dyke March demonstrations; and the relationship between keywords and cultural change.  Ghaziani is currently working on his next book, which investigates the residential choices of gay and straight-identified people who live in "gay neighborhoods."  Ghaziani also has extensive teaching experience in both introductory and upper-level sociology courses, several of which have won him teaching awards. At Princeton, he has thus far taught a Freshman Seminar entitled, "Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Unity and Division in Political Life," along with "Queer Theory and Politics," and "Culture, Power, and Inequality."