Selected Professional Appointments
Professor, University of Toronto Department of Sociology
Academic Director, Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre
Daniel Silver is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research areas are social theory, cities, culture, and cultural policy. He is co-editor of The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life. Professor Silver was the recipient of the 2013 Theory Prize, the 2017 Consumers and Consumption Section Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, and received an honorable mention for the 2015 Junior Theorist Award, all from the American Sociological Association.
His current research examines the evolution of urban forms; the role of arts and culture in city politics, economics, and residential patterns; the enduring political orders of cities; the use of diagrams and figures in social theory; the meaning and reception of Georg Simmel’s ideas; and the definition and evolution of classics and canons in sociological theory. Silver is also a core participant in The Scenes Project and the Urban Genome Project. Additionally, he was editor and co-author of reports on the cultural sectors in Toronto and Chicago: From the Ground Up: Growing Toronto’s Creative Sector, Redefining Public Art in Toronto, and Chicago: Music City.
Specialty Focus Areas
Urban theory; social theory; neighbourhoods; arts and culture; urban evolution; urban politics; urban culture.
Email: dan.silver@utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 208-2698
Websites: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/sociology/daniel-silver / https://urbangenome.utoronto.ca / https://scenescapes.weebly.com
Twitter: @UrbanGenomeProj