Career
Duneier earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in In 2016, he published Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea with Farrar, Straus and Giroux Professor Duneier taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the City University of New York (where he regularly teaches in a visiting capacity) before joining the Princeton faculty. He served on the original advisory board for Public Radio International"s This American Life. He is the step-brother of Harvard political scientist Gary King.