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 (forthcoming). 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
Bridges, Todd Arthur (forthcoming). “Defining the ‘Self’ in Regulation: A Socio-Legal Investigation of the U.S. Hedge Fund Market.” Presentation given at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Law & Society. Regular Paper Session on Economy & Society: Comparative Perspectives on Credit, Banking, and Securitization. Chicago, IL.
Bridges, Todd
Arthur (2010). “Constructing Governance in The Shadow Financial System: An
Empirical Investigation of Social Institutions and Structures in the Hedge Fund
Market.” Presentation given at the 2010
Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Sociological Society. Regular Paper Session on Financial Markets and
Regulations. Cambridge, MA.
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 |