Biography:

Todd Arthur Bridges

Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information:	Contact Information:
112 George Street, Box 1916	62 Kirkland Circle
Providence, RI 02912	Wellesley Hills, MA 02481
Tel: (401) 863-3459	Tel: (617) 850-2929
todd_bridges@brown.edu	toddarthurbridges@gmail.com

Previous Education:
Masters in Sociology
Bachelor of Science in Finance & Economics
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

Research Website & Blog:
Research              http://toddarthurbridges.org/
Blog                     http://toddarthurbridges.blogspot.com/
Photography        http://reflexiveaperture.org/

Research Interests:
Economic Sociology, Sociology of Organizations, Sociology of Law, Mixed Methods Research, Social Network Analysis, and Regulation & Social Control

Research Experience:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
Socio-Legal Research
Brown University
Providence, RI
Research Project Manager
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Paris, France
Research
Center for Population Economics (CPE) at The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Research and Spatial Analyst
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
Chicago, IL
Research and Spatial Analyst
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Chicago, IL
Research and Spatial Analyst
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Research Assistant
Brown University
Providence, RI
Research Assistant
Thomas Weisel Partners LLC
San Francisco, CA
Research Assistant
JP Morgan Chase
New York, NY
Research Intern

Teaching Fellowships/Assistantships:

Sociology 187	Economic Sociology	Brown University	Co-Teaching
Sociology 109	Theories of Organizational Dynamics--Org Theory (3 semesters)	Brown University	Teaching Assistant
Sociology 156	Quantitative Methods	Harvard University	Teaching Fellow
Sociology 150	Economic Development and Social Change	Brown University	Teaching Assistant
Sociology 110	Statistics for Social Scientists (2 semesters)	Brown University	Teaching Assistant
MBA	International Trade	The University of Chicago	Teaching Assistant

Research Grant Experience:
Professor
Susan Silbey
"Governing Green Laboratories: Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science" (details)
Massachusetts Institute     of Technology (MIT)
Professor
Mark Suchman
"The Contracting Universe: Law Firms and the Evolution of Venture Capital Financing in Silicon Valley" and "The Organizational, Professional, and Legal Challenges of New Information Technologies in Healthcare" (details)

Brown University
Professor
Dennis Hogan
"The School-to-Work Transition" and "Research for Improving Reproductive Health in Ethiopia" Brown University
Professor
Robert Fogel
"EXDID: Explaining the Decline in Infant Mortality During the 20th Century" (details)
The University of Chicago
Professor
Robert Townsend
"Spatial Analysis and the Role of Social Networks in the Economic Development of Thailand" (details)
The University of Chicago
Professor
John Romalis
"Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)"
The University of Chicago

Papers and Presentations:

Bridges, Todd Arthur (in progress). Constructing Governance in The Shadow Financial System: An Empirical Investigation of Social Institutions and Structures in the U.S. Hedge Fund Market. Brown University-Dissertation. Providence, RI

Suchman, Mark C., Todd Arthur Bridges and Sue Monihan (2009). “The Organizational Response to HIPAA: An Analysis of the Views of Health Privacy Officers,” The Governance of Health Information Technology Project, Project Report. Providence, RI.

Bridges, Todd Arthur (2008). Controlling Capital: The Role of Social Structure in the Financial Markets." Brown University-Qualifying Paper. Providence, RI.

Bridges, Todd Arthur (2006). Embedding Intellectual Property Rights in Social Relations: A Macro-Micro Theoretical Model. Brown University-MA Thesis. Providence, RI.

Bridges, Todd Arthur (2005). "Trends in International Migration within the OECD Member Countries," Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Project Report to the International Futures Programme. Paris, France.

Bridges, Todd Arthur (2002). "Preliminary Findings on the Linkage between Infant Mortality and Education in Early Twentieth Century Chicago," Center for Population Economics at The University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 2002-3. Chicago, IL.

Forthcoming Papers:

Suchman, Mark C., and Todd Arthur Bridges (forthcoming). "The Contracting Universe: The Role of Law Firms in the Development of Venture Capital Financing Practices in Silicon Valley."

Suchman, Mark C., Scott Geller, and Todd Arthur Bridges (forthcoming). “Monte Carlo Simulation of Ipsative Data.”

Suchman, Mark C., Matthew Dimick, Sarah Swider, Todd Arthur Bridges, Crystal Adams and Mim Plavin (forthcoming). “Hospitals, HIPAA and the Politics of PARO: Modeling and Measuring Heterogeneous Organizational Postures Toward Legal Change.”

Dissertation Title:
Constructing Governance in The Shadow Financial System: An Empirical Investigation of Social Institutions and Structures in the U.S. Hedge Fund Market

Dissertation Committee:
Mark C. Suchman, Susan S. Silbey (MIT), Frank Dobbin (Harvard), Ebony Bridwell-Mitchel

Dissertation Abstract:
This research project consists of a multi-stage, multi-method investigation of the organizational, legal, and governance challenges faced by institutions in the U.S. hedge fund industry in the absence of formal state regulation. The empirical case study of the U.S. hedge fund industry is of sociological importance because if offers qualities of a pseudo-natural experiment wherein the formal regulatory structures that operate in the traditional financial system have been removed, leaving institutions the opportunity to create their own extra-legal governance mechanisms and structures. The proposed research will empirically and theoretically explore how institutions create and reproduce informal governance practices within their social networks in this social laboratory. Additionally, the research explores how the social network’s informal practices are interrelated with the formal legal environment issued by the U.S. government. The project will guide policymakers by investigating the governance practices in one of the most powerful markets in the U.S. financial system, which operates beyond the reach of current federal regulations and administrative bodies. At the same time, the research will guide social scientists in developing a richer theoretical understanding of how organizations within social networks construct governance mechanisms, how informal organizational practices are interrelated with the formal legal environment, and how the organization’s structural location in a network affects its governance practices and the governance regimes it operates within.

Professional Membership and Activities:
2004-present Member, American Sociological Association (ASA)
2006-present
Member, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
2007-present
Member, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association
2008-present
Member, Organizations, Occupations and Work Section of the American Sociological Association
2008-present
Member, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
2009-present Member, The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (AAPSS)
2009-present Member, The Law & Society Association
2009-present Member, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
2010-present
Member, Eastern Sociological Society (ESS)
2010-present
Member, International Sociological Association (ISA)
2010-present
Research Committee for Economy & Society, International Sociological Association
2010-present
Research Committee for Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association

Professional Awards and Fellowships:
2009 Hazeltine Fellowship
2009 Russell and Selina Wonderlic Fellowship
2009 Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship (COE) Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2008
Brown University Dissertation Fellowship
2007
Harvard University Teaching Fellowship
2006-2008
Brown University Summer Research Fellowship
2005-2008 Brown University Graduate Assistantship/Fellowship