Ph.D. in Sociology, Emory University
Ph.D. in Arts & Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Specialty: Culture; globalization; organizations; inequality
Dr. Schmutz studies processes of classification, evaluation and consecration, often in the fields of music or cultural heritage. His published research has appeared in Social Forces, Poetics, Cultural Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, Popular Music and Society, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Advances in Gender Research, Sustainability, Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, Sociologie de l’Art, and in various books and collections.