Dennis Wrong

Who is Dennis Wrong?

Dennis Hume Wrong is an American sociologist, and emeritus professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

Wrong is the author of several books, including two essay collections containing articles first published in cultural, intellectual, political and scholarly journals in the United States, Canada, and Britain. He has taught sociology at Princeton University, Rutgers, Brown University, the University of Toronto, the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty, and for most of his career at New York University. He is currently retired and lives in Princeton.

The Dennis Wrong Award is given for the best graduate paper of the year by New York University's sociology department.