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Earlier this month, Prof. David Grusky joined other leading scholars for a UC Berkeley panel discussion on wealth and poverty in California. matrix.berkeley.edu/research-art...

matrix.berkeley.eduCalifornia Spotlight: Wealth & Poverty - Social Science MatrixCalifornia is one of the wealthiest states in the country, yet it also faces persistent poverty, stark economic inequality, and some of the highest costs of living in the nation. These tensions raise ...
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New: Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social offers new frameworks for understanding the power of judicial institutions—alongside carceral institutions—in governing marginalized people & shaping subjectivities in an era of mass criminalization @annualreviews.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

annualreviews.orgThe Defendant's SubjectivityThe criminal defendant is an undertheorized social actor in the era of mass criminalization. This article introduces two complementary frameworks to stimulate theory-building on defendants’ subjectivi...
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The Stanford Department of Sociology is hiring! We have an open rank search and a senior search. Open rank position: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/appoint... Senior position: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/senior-...

facultypositions.stanford.eduAppointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. - Stanford University, California, United StatesAppointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.  The Department of Sociology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a faculty app...
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New in @plosone.org: Drs. Christianne Corbett, Meghan O. Warner, and colleagues draw on interviews with service industry workers in the Bay Area to examine how workplaces can better prevent and respond to sexual harassment. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

journals.plos.orgSexual harassment at work: Targets’ perspectives on prevention and responseHarassment, including sexual harassment, in the workplace poses a significant threat to workers’ wellbeing and contributes to social inequities. Organizations play a pivotal role in both enabling and ...
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NEW in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: PhD Candidate Emma Williams-Baron & Prof. Aliya Saperstein use the NLSY79 to explore the best ways to operationalize race/ethnicity in the study of inequality in the labor market, health, and education. doi.org/10.15195/v13...

doi.orgA Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of RaceArticle: A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race | Sociological Science | Posted July 9, 2026
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PhD candidate @angelahe.bsky.social's research was recognized with the best student paper award from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption. Congrats, Angela! sociology.stanford.edu/news/angela-...

sociology.stanford.eduAngela He honored with ASA Consumers and Consumption Section best student paper award | Department of SociologyPhD student Angela He has received the Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Consumers and Consumption Section. The national award goes to the graduate student paper (publis...
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Congrats to Prof. @mivich.bsky.social whose book The Division of Rationalized Labor (@harvardpress.bsky.social) received three awards this year! sociology.stanford.edu/news/three-n...

sociology.stanford.eduThree national awards recognize Michelle Jackson's book on labor | Department of SociologyMichelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award fro...
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Congrats to Prof. Forrest Stuart, who received the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance and Sociology of Law sections of the American Sociological Association! @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/forrest...

sociology.stanford.eduForrest Stuart receives ASA Peterson-Krivo mentoring award | Department of SociologyProfessor Forrest Stuart has been awarded the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Prize, presented jointly by the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section and the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological As...
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Prof. David Rehkopf has been named director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, which "envisions a world where people thrive across century-long lives—healthy, purposeful, and engaged at every stage." Congrats, David! @stanfordlongevity.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/david-r...

sociology.stanford.eduDavid Rehkopf named new director of the Stanford Center on Longevity | Department of SociologyDavid Rehkopf has been named as the new director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. He will begin his tenure later this summer.“I am honored to continue the vital work that the center has been doing...
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Congrats to Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social who received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's IPM Section! @asa-ipm.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/matt-cl...

sociology.stanford.eduMatt Clair receives William Julius Wilson early career award | Department of SociologyAssociate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...
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Thanks for joining us--and for your thought-provoking keynote! bsky.app/profile/sash...

Sasha Killewald@sashakillewald.bsky.social

Had a blast at the @sociologicalsci.bsky.social conference at @stanfordsoc.bsky.social last week, which allowed me to both gaze at Rodins & argue that sociologists should try to run our departments as if we believe scholarship on how to have equitable organizations.

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New in Nature Climate Change, Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social and @pascl-stanford.bsky.social examine the most persuasive climate change messaging strategies. bsky.app/profile/robb...

Robb Willer@robbwiller.bsky.social

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

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Congrats to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social and PhD candidate @jsmernyk.bsky.social for receiving a Stage 1 Seed grant from @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social, supporting their work on AI Voter Guides! bsky.app/profile/robb...

Robb Willer@robbwiller.bsky.social

Can AI voter guides help voters decide while remaining accurate, nonpartisan, and trustworthy? Very grateful to @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social for a new grant supporting our next work on this (building on work led by Joe Mernyk & Jonne Kamphorst): bsky.app/profile/robb...

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Congratulations to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social (@pascl-stanford.bsky.social) who was just named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation! @guggfellows.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/robb-wi...

sociology.stanford.eduRobb Willer awarded Guggenheim Fellowship | Department of SociologyRobb Willer has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is one of five Stanford scholars awarded the fellowship.
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At this week's community lunch, we celebrated faculty books published in the last 5 years, covering a range of social issues from immigration and criminal justice to the division of labor in society and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.

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New paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: PhD candidate Swan Htut shows how the ways that immigrants relate to ethnic and national labels in the US are influenced by nation-building and ethnic conflict in their home country. Congrats, Swan! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DZRMD...

tandfonline.com‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroadAlthough literature on immigrants’ ethnic and racial identity formation has generally assumed the dominance of host-country schemas about race and ethnicity, recent scholarship argues that immigran...
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Master’s alum Ryan Cieslikowski shared research and commentary in a recent KQED news article on Stanford’s legacy admissions practices. bsky.app/profile/kqed...

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dlvr.itCalifornia Banned Legacy Admissions at Private Schools. Stanford Is Sticking With ItStanford University said it will continue giving admissions preference to children and relatives of alumni by withdrawing from the Cal Grant program to avoid using state financial aid.
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NEW! Call for papers for @russellsagefdn.bsky.social journal issue on "Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity and Gender Expression" edited by @stanfordsoc.bsky.social's Aliya Saperstein, @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social, & Bianca Wilson. www.russellsage.org/request-arti...

russellsage.orgRequest for Articles - Gender Inequality Beyond Categories:CALL FOR ARTICLES - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - Issue on Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity And Gender Expression

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