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Ezra Zuckerman Sivan<\/h1> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ezra <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Welcome to my website. Thanks for visiting.<\/p>\n

I hope you find the materials I've posted here to be valuable.\u00a0\u00a0If you have comments on anything, please don't hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n

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Story of my Name<\/strong><\/p>\n

The short version of the story of my name is as follows.\u00a0\u00a0My birth certificate gives my name as \u201dEzra Wyatt Zuckerman.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0This is also the name (well, with the middle initial) with which I began my career and under which I continue to publish. (Note though that at 8 days old, I was also given a Jewish name at my bris\/circumcision ceremony-- \u05e2\u05d6\u05e8\u05d0 \u05de\u05dc\u05da \u05d1\u05df \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd \u05d6\u05dc\u05de\u05df or \u201cEzra Melech son of Avraham Zalman\u201d and that is still my name for Jewish ritual purposes.\u00a0\u00a0This common Jewish practice of having a \u201cJewish name\u201d and a \u201csecular name\u201d has interesting implications for naming fashion)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1996, shortly before my wife Lisa<\/a> gave birth to our first child, we added the name \"Sivan\" to our existing last names (hers was Wasserman) so that we would have a common family name (\u201cSivan\u201d is the only last name held by the four children with whom we have been blessed\u2014Jack, Nina, Jesse, and Libby).\u00a0\u00a0The Chicago judge who issued the name change wondered why we didn\u2019t do this when we first got married; you would have thought that he would have just enjoyed the break from the dreary probate cases he was presiding over.<\/p>\n

Over the years, we have run into a few other families that have adopted similar approaches to choosing a family name (not that we expected it would become fashionable).\u00a0\u00a0Insofar as it does not fit easily into conventional practice, it can lead to some difficulty, but none that cannot be managed pretty easily.\u00a0\u00a0It also has some advantages: it can be a nice opener for conversation in our (hopefully) multicultural, tolerant age, and it is a great way to gain insight into the foundations of identity\u2014a topic that greatly interests me.<\/p>\n

Of course, I am sometimes called by other names, which are unprintable here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of the time, this is not done to my face, and so I can remain blissfully unaware of it.\u00a0\u00a0(See here<\/a> for some thoughts relating to this issue).<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ezra Zuckerman Sivan<\/h1>\t\t\t

Welcome to my website. Thanks for visiting.<\/p>\n

I hope you find the materials I've posted here to be valuable.\u00a0\u00a0If you have comments on anything, please don't hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n

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Story of my Name<\/strong><\/p>\n

The short version of the story of my name is as follows.\u00a0\u00a0My birth certificate gives my name as \u201dEzra Wyatt Zuckerman.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0This is also the name (well, with the middle initial) with which I began my career and under which I continue to publish. (Note though that at 8 days old, I was also given a Jewish name at my bris\/circumcision ceremony-- \u05e2\u05d6\u05e8\u05d0 \u05de\u05dc\u05da \u05d1\u05df \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd \u05d6\u05dc\u05de\u05df or \u201cEzra Melech son of Avraham Zalman\u201d and that is still my name for Jewish ritual purposes.\u00a0\u00a0This common Jewish practice of having a \u201cJewish name\u201d and a \u201csecular name\u201d has interesting implications for naming fashion)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1996, shortly before my wife Lisa<\/a> gave birth to our first child, we added the name \"Sivan\" to our existing last names (hers was Wasserman) so that we would have a common family name (\u201cSivan\u201d is the only last name held by the four children with whom we have been blessed\u2014Jack, Nina, Jesse, and Libby).\u00a0\u00a0The Chicago judge who issued the name change wondered why we didn\u2019t do this when we first got married; you would have thought that he would have just enjoyed the break from the dreary probate cases he was presiding over.<\/p>\n

Over the years, we have run into a few other families that have adopted similar approaches to choosing a family name (not that we expected it would become fashionable).\u00a0\u00a0Insofar as it does not fit easily into conventional practice, it can lead to some difficulty, but none that cannot be managed pretty easily.\u00a0\u00a0It also has some advantages: it can be a nice opener for conversation in our (hopefully) multicultural, tolerant age, and it is a great way to gain insight into the foundations of identity\u2014a topic that greatly interests me.<\/p>\n

Of course, I am sometimes called by other names, which are unprintable here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of the time, this is not done to my face, and so I can remain blissfully unaware of it.\u00a0\u00a0(See here<\/a> for some thoughts relating to this issue).<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\t\t

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Recent Research<\/h3>\t\t\t\t
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\"Comment: How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did?\"<\/a><\/h4> Brady, David, Aliza Luft, and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. American Sociology Review<\/i>. Forthcoming.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\"Your Ancestors Worked Hard for this Legitimacy! Theory and Experiment on the Inauthenticity of Second Movers.\"<\/a><\/h4> Ha, Jaekyung, Stine Grodal, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. Organization Science<\/i> Vol. 35, No. 5 (2024): 1571-1955.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\"When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics.\"<\/a><\/h4> Kim, Minjae, Oliver Hahl, Ethan Poskanzer, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology<\/i> Vol. 130, No. 1 (2024): 193-240.\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

My Affiliations<\/h2>
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Economic Sociology Program<\/h4>\t<\/a>\t

MIT Sloan's Economic Sociology is a PhD concentration aimed at training scholars who conduct leading-edge research that applies sociological tools and concepts to gain a deeper understanding of organizations and the economy.<\/p>

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TIES Group<\/h4>\t<\/a>\t

MIT Sloan Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) Group is proud to be an integral part of MIT\u2019s legendary entrepreneurial ecosystem.<\/p>

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Sociology@MIT<\/h4>\t<\/a>\t

The sociologists at MIT help students develop an understanding and appreciation of the social structures that link local experiences and global exchanges.<\/p>

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