Affiliated Faculty

John W. Meyer [meyer@stanford.edu] is Professor of Sociology, Emeritus (and by courtesy Education).  He is also Fellow of the Institute of International Studies.  His main areas of interest include Sociology of Education, Political Sociology, and Comparative Sociology.  He works on several projects: (a) the expansion and impact of science in world society; (b) the effects of globalization on the structures of formal organizations; and (c) worldwide changes in educational curricula reflecting globalization.  He is the author of many institutional analyses of educational systems, organizations, and nation-states in contemporary world society, including "World Society and the Nation State" (with J. Boli, G. Thomas, and F. Ramirez), American Journal of Sociology 103 (1997): 144-81; "The Effect of Education as an Institution," American Journal of Sociology 83 (1977): 55-77; "Institutional Organizations: Structure as Myth and Ceremony," American Journal of Sociology 83 (1977): 340-63. 

Francisco O. Ramirez [ramirez@stanford.edu] is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology.  His comparative research interests include the globalization of education, the expansion of the world human rights regime, the political incorporation of women, and the institutionalization  of science in education and in society.  He is the coauthor of "What Counts as History? A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula" in Comparative Education Review (with D. Frank, S. Wong & J. Meyer, 2000).  His gender related co-authored article includes "Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1870-1990" American Sociological Review (1997).  Ramirez is also the co-author of "The Effects of Science on National Economic Development, 1970-1990 (American Sociological Review).  He has been appointed to the AREA International Relations Committe as Chair Designate for 2003-2004 and as Committee Chair for 2004-2006.  He has also been elected the AERA Chair of Sociology of Education SIG. 

Gili S. Drori [drori@stanford.edu] (Ph.D.; Stanford University 1997) is a lecturer in Stanford University's programs on International Relations and International Policy Studies.  Her research interests include the comparative study of science and technology, social progress and rationalization, globalization, governance, and higher education.  She is the author of several papers and chapters on science and development, comparative science education, political discourse, and the role of policy regimes in worldwide governance.  Her co-authored book, "Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization" (Stanford University Press, 2003; with John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez and Evan Schofer) is now available.  Currently she is working on a second book, titled "The Global Digital Divide: IT and the New Global Geography of Inequality" (Worth Publishers).  She co-leads the honors program in International Relations and teaches classes titled: "Science, Technology, and Development," "Globalization and Organizations," and "Global Migration." 

Christine Min Wotipka [cwotipka@stanford.edu] is a Global Fellow/Visiting Faculty Member at the International Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles for 2003-2004.  She received her Ph.D. in International Comparative Education from the Stanford University School of Education in 2001.  Her scholarly interests include women in science, international human rights, women's studies, globalization, and higher education.  Among other projects, she is currently working on papers that analyze ratifications of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as well as other international human rights treaties. 

Keiko Inoue [kinoue@stanford.edu] is Assistant Professor (acting) in the International Comparative Education program at Stanford University. Her scholarly interests include the globalization of health and human rights,international women's health, health education, and gender and development. She is teaching research methods seminars for the International Comparative Education M.A. students, as well as two courses titled "Introduction to International Comparative Education" and "Politics of International Cooperation in Education". She is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford and has been a dissertation fellow of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Evan Schofer [schofer@atlas.socsci.umn.edu] is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research centers on the global spread of Western science, education, and other forms of rationalization and expertise. He was recently awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship to study the global expansion of higher education. In other research, he examines the impact of expanded science, higher education, and social rationalization on nation-states -- on national economies and on national policies in domains such as the environment. He is also conducting comparative research on civil society and social protest. Schofer has been a MacArthur consortium fellow and remains an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford.

Ann Hironaka [hironaka@atlas.socsci.umn.edu] is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.  Her dissertation examined historical changes in warfare that were caused by broad changes in the nature of the state.  Current research projects include studies of democracy, civil war, and state stability.  In addition, she has also done research on the development of the global environmental regime and its effects upon national environmental movements.

Yong Suk Jang [yongsuk.jang@soc.utah.edu] is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Utah.  His principal research interests include organizations, comparative political and economic sociology, globalization, and quantitative methods.  He received his Ph.D. in sociology in June, 2001.  His dissertation project involves a theoretical and empirical exploration of the development and expansion of modern accounting as a global and institutional practice, and how it varies among firms in different societies. He is also collaborating on other research projects in the areas of comparative economic and political sociology.  These include topics such as the world society's influences on the expansion of central governments or state agencies and its (negative) impact on national development; nation-state participation in inter-governmental technology organizations; global digital devide; and worldwide increase in administrative rationality and its variation.  He was a MacArthur consortium dissertation fellow of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford for 2000-01.

Xiaowei Rose Luo [luo2@uiuc.edu] is currently an assistant professor in Organizational Behavior at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.  She received her Ph.D. in Sociology in June, 2000. Her dissertation examines the historical rise of personal development training (or popularly known as "soft-skill" training) for employees in organizations and the driving forces behind it.  Her research interests include: the innovation, legitimation and spread of corporate strategies, historical changes in organizations, and cross-national comparison in organizational practices.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui [teru@stanford.edu] is an assistant professor of sociology at State University of New York.  His dissertation examines the evolution of the international human rights regime and its impact on ethnic social movements.  His research centers around the impact of global norms on human rights, environmentalism and other progressive ideas on local social movements.  His current research topics include the history of global human rights in the last five decades, the international human rights movement for former comfort women, and collective memories of war crimes in Japan.  Tsutsui has been a MacArthur consortium fellow and remains an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford.

Postdoctorates

Miriam Abu-Sharkh [mirabus@hotmail.com]

Hyeyoung Moon [hyemoon@stanford.edu]

Hokyu Hwang [hokyu@stanford.edu]

Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton [hafner-burton@stanford.edu]

Graduate Students

David Suarez [dsuarez@stanford.edu]

MariaElena Gonzalez [symbol@stanford.edu] is a doctoral student in the sociology department at Stanford.  Her research areas include identity, political sociology, social movements, religion, and globlization.

Wade M. Cole [wcole@stanford.edu]

Jeong-Woo Koo [jwkoo@stanford.edu] is a doctoral student in the sociology department at Stanford University.  His research interests include organizations (particularly organizational ecology and institutional ecology), political economy and development, globalization, political sociology, and comparative-historical perspective.  His current research focuses on pre-modern school organizations in Korea from 1403 to 1871.

Allana Ortega [kortega@stanford.edu]

Jong-Seon Kim [kimjseon@stanford.edu]