Sarah A. Soule | email
Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University
Professor Sarah Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1995. Her research has long focused on how social movements impact organizational processes and how organizational theory and models can shed light on social movement processes. In particular, she has examined how social movements impact state policy decisions, such as the Equal Rights Amendment, Welfare Reform, and Same-Sex Marriage Bans. She has also examined how the state responds to social movements by examining the factors responsible for policing of protest. Recent articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Mobilization. She has just published a book entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility (2009, Cambridge University Press) and a second book (co-authored with David Snow) entitled A Primer on Social Movements (2009, Norton) and was a co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements in 2004.
During her fellowship year, Professor Soule will be examining how women's protest in the United States (in the 1960-1995 period) was treated by policing agents, with an eye toward unpacking whether or not female protesters are more or less likely than other groups to be policed and policed heavily. She will also examine the costs and benefits of the women's activist coalition formation over this same period. She will be drawing on her recently completed National Science Foundation-funded study of U.S. protest over the 1960-1995 period.
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