Stanford Sociology Faculty

Tenure Line Faculty

 

• Cook, Karen (Ph.D., Stanford 1973) The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor; Department Chair; Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS).
  Areas: Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Group Processes; Social Networks, Health Care.

• England, Paula (Ph.D., Chicago 1975) Professor of Sociology.

           Areas: Gender; Family; Inequality.

• Granovetter, Mark (Ph.D., Harvard 1970) Joan Butler Ford Professor.
  Areas: Economic and Political Sociology; Organizations; Inequality.

• Grusky, David (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison 1987) Professor of Sociology; Director for the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.
  Areas: Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race, Class and Gender.

• Hannan, Michael (Ph.D., North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1970) Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources (Graduate School of Business) and of Sociology.
  Areas: Organizations – Formal and Complex; Mathematical Sociology.

• Hillmann, Henning (Ph.D., Columbia 2004) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Social Networks; Historical and Political Sociology; Economic Sociology and Organizations.

• McAdam, Douglas (Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook 1979) Professor of Sociology. Director of the Program on Urban Studies.
  Areas: Social Movements; Political Sociology; Network Analysis; Life Course; Comparative and Historical Sociology.

• McDermott, Monica (Ph.D., Harvard 2001) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Race Relations; Social Attitudes; Class; Racial and Ethnic Identity; Urban Sociology.

• Olzak, Susan (Ph.D., Stanford 1978) Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Collective Action and Social Movement; Race and Ethnic Relations; Political Sociology.

• Ridgeway, Cecilia (Ph.D., Cornell 1972) Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences.
  Areas: Social Psychology, Group Processes, Gender, and Social Inequality.

• Rosenfeld, Michael (Ph.D., Chicago 2000) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.

• Sandefur, Rebecca (Ph.D., Chicago 2001) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Inequality, Social Stratification and Mobility; Law and Society; Work, Occupations and Professions.

• Shin, Gi-Wook (Ph.D., University of Washington 1991) Professor of Sociology; Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Director Korean Studies Program; Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
  Areas: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Political Economy of East Asia; and Korean Society and Politics.

• Snipp, C. Matthew (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison 1981) Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations; Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality; Demography.

• Tuma, Nancy (Ph.D., Michigan State 1972) Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Quantitative Methodology; Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality; Life Course; Socialist Societies; Demography.

• Walder, Andrew (Ph.D., Michigan 1981) The Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor; Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
  Areas: Political Sociology; Stratification and Mobility; China Studies.

• Zhou, Xueguang (Ph.D., Stanford 1991) Professor of Sociology; Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
  Areas: Sociology of Organization, Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, Chinese Society.
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Emeritus Faculty

 

• Berger, Joseph (Ph.D., Harvard 1958) Professor of Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Theory; Status Processes and Legitimation; Reward Expectation and Distributive Justice; Social Psychology.

• Cohen, Bernard P. (Ph.D., Harvard 1957) Professor of Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Social Psychology; Theory.

• Dornbusch, Sanford (Ph.D., Chicago 1952) Professor of Sociology, Human Biology, and (by courtesy) Education, Emeritus.
  Areas: Social Psychology; Education; Deviance; Adolescence.

• Inkeles, Alex (Ph.D., Columbia 1949) Professor of Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Social Psychology; Social Change.

• March, James (Ph.D., Yale 1953) Professor of Management (Graduate School of Business), Political Science, and Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Organizations; Decision Making; Organizational Learning; Risk Taking; Information Processing.

• Martin, Joanne (Ph.D., Harvard 1977) Professor of Organizational Behavior (Graduate School of Business) and (by courtesy) of Sociology, Emerita.
  Areas: Organizations – Formal and Complex; Feminist Theory.

• Meyer, John W. (Ph.D., Columbia 1965) Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) of Education, Emeritus.
  Areas: Education; Political Sociology; Comparative Sociology.

• Scott, W. Richard (Ph.D., Chicago 1961) Professor of Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Organizations; Institutional Forces Shaping Organizational Structures and Processes; Transnational Project Organizations.

• Zelditch, Morris Jr. (Ph.D., Harvard 1955) Professor of Sociology, Emeritus.
  Areas: Theory; Social Psychology.

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Parenthetical, Affiliated and Other Faculty:

 

• Barr, Donald (Ph.D., Stanford 1993) Associate Professor (Teaching) of Sociology.
  Areas: Health Policy; Medical Sociology; Race and Ethnic Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access.

• Bryk, Anthony (Ed.D., Harvard 1977). Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior (Graduate School of Business) and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: School Organization; Education Reform; Accountability; Assessment; Educational Statistics.

• Carroll, Glenn (Ph.D., Stanford 1982) Professor of Organizational Behavior (Graduate School of Business) and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Organizational Theory, Industrial Development, Strategic Management, Organizational and Industrial Evolution.

• Carter, Prudence (Ph.D., Columbia 1999) Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Ethnic and Racial Studies; Sociology of Education; Social Problems.

• Chang, Patricia (Ph.D., Stanford 1993) Consulting Associate Professor.
  Areas: Religion, Organizations (Formal / Complex), Women and Work.

• Cronkite, Ruth (Ph.D., Stanford 1976) Director, VA Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Training Programs in Health Services Research and Co-Associate Director, VA Postdoctoral Training Program in Medical Informatics, Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University Mental Center and Consulting Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Health Services Research; Medical Sociology; Family.

• Dauber, Michele (Ph.D., Northwestern 2002) Professor of Law and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Society and Law.

• Diamond, Larry (Ph.D., Stanford 1980) Senior Research Fellow at Hoover Institution and (by courtesy) Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Political Sociology; Stratification and Mobility; Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations.

• Drori, Gili (Ph.D. Stanford 1997) Lecturer.
  Areas: Comparative Study of Science and Technology; Social Progress and Rationalization; Globalization; Governance; and Higher Education.

• Gerbasi, Alexandra (Ph.D., Stanford 2007) Lecturer.
  Areas: Social Psychology; Social Networks; Group Processes; Theory and Organizations.

• McFarland, Daniel (Ph.D., Chicago 1999) Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Organizational Theory; Social Networks; and Micro-Sociology.

• Meyersson-Milgrom, Eva-Maria (Ph.D., Stockholm University 1992) Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Stratification; Labor Markets; Justice; and Organizations.

• Nass, Clifford (Ph.D., Princeton 1986) Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Social Responses to Communication Technology; Human-Computer Interaction; Quantitative Methodology; Organizations.

• Powell, Walter W. (Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook 1978) Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Organizations; Science and Technology; Economic Sociology.

• Ramirez, Francisco (Ph.D., Stanford 1974) Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Political Sociology; Comparative Education; Sex and Gender; Social Change and Development.

• Reardon, Sean (Ed.D., Harvard 1997) Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Sociology of Education; Inequality; Segregation; Quantitative Methods.

• Sorensen, Annemette (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison 1980) Consulting Associate Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Gender Inequality; Family; Stratification; Life Course and Life Histories; Statistics and Data Analysis; Methodology.

• Sorensen, Jesper (Ph.D., Stanford 1996) Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior (Graduate School of Business) and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Organizational Theory; Social Networks; Economic Sociology; Social Mobility; Labor Markets and Careers; Research Design and Methods.

• Thornton, Patricia (Ph.D., Stanford 1993) Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology.
  Areas: Entrepreneurship and Strategy; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Organizations and Markets; Organization and Management Theory.

• Wotipka, Christine Min (Ph.D., Stanford 2001) Assistant Professor School of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.
  Areas: Comparative and International Education; Gender and Education; Women and Science; Globalization: International Human Rights; Sociology of Education; Research Methods in Education.

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