Omar Lizardo (born 7 September 1974) is an American sociologist who is LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
During his time as a professor of sociology at Notre Dame, he was an External Member of the Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University.
[10] He has also served as a faculty fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and was also a faculty member of iCeNSA, the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications at Notre Dame,[11] now renamed the Center for Network & Data Science.
In 2019, with Elliot Weininger and Annette Lareau, he co-edited the book Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins, published by Routledge.
The volume features contributions from a wide range of social scientists whose work has been inspired by or seeks to extend the theories of the sociologist Randall Collins.
The book covers the history and state of the art of how sociologists think about measuring culture across a wide range of distinct methodological and theoretical traditions.
In 2013, Lizardo won the Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting, which is "intended to recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.”[25] The next year Lizardo delivered the Lewis Coser Lecture at the 2014 meetings of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
[28] In 2015, along with co-author Jessica Collett, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Sociology of Emotions Recent Contribution Award for their paper Embarrassment and social organization: A multiple identities model, previously published in Social Forces[29] In 2017, along with co-author Michael Strand, Lizardo received an honorable mention for the ASA's Section on Theory Prize for Outstanding Article for their paper Beyond world images: Belief as embodied action in the world,[30] previously published in Sociological Theory.,[31] In 2018, Lizardo was elected chair of the ASA's section on the Sociology of Culture.