Virtual SEVEN Speaker Series: Fred Wherry ’96 on carrying debt with dignity

Dr. Fred Wherry ’96 discussed the problem of too much debt and the imperative that it be carried with dignity.

About Fred:
Fred Wherry ’96 is currently the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the Director of the Dignity + Debt Network (a partnership with the Social Science Research Council: dignityanddebt.org).

Fred is the author or editor of nine books, including Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, and Measuring Culture. After leaving Carolina, Fred was a Luce Scholar in Thailand and is now a Selector for the program.

He earned his Master's in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and completed his doctorate in sociology at Princeton University in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, he served as a faculty member at Michigan, Columbia, and Yale, before returning to Princeton.