John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Martin studied at Wesleyan University and received a BA in sociology and English in 1987.
His dissertation committee was Ann Swidler (chair), Mike Hout, James Wiley, John Wilmoth.
[2] John Levi Martin's current main areas of interest are field theory, social structures, and party formation.
His previous work has been on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of race as a conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in Busytown.