Trond Petersen

Trond K. Petersen is a Professor of Sociology and the Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His expertise and research interests include social inequality and quantitative methods. He has investigated the role of employer discrimination in creating inequality in wages, hiring, and promotions between men and women, as well as the role of family adaptations in this. He draws on large-scale quantitative data from the U.S. and Scandinavia, including quantitative data on large firms. Petersen received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin (1987). Before coming to Berkeley in 1988, he taught in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University (1985-1988) and after coming here spent two years teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo (1992-93, 1996-97).