Stanford Sociology Faculty
Tenure Line Faculty
- Cook, Karen (Ph.D., Stanford 1973) The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor; Department Chair; Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.
Areas: Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Group Processes; Social Networks, Health Care.
- Correll, Shelley (Ph.D., Stanford 2001) Associate Professor of Sociology.
Areas: Gender Inequality; Social Psychology; Group Processes; Sociology of Education.
- 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, 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)
Stratacom Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Business; Professor 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.
- Jiménez, Tomás (
Ph.D., Harvard 2005) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Areas: Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Assimilation; Mexican Americans.
- McAdam, Douglas (Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook 1979) Professor of Sociology; Director, 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.
- Parigi, Paolo (Ph.D. Columbia 2008) Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Areas: Historical Sociology; Organizations and Institutions; Political Sociology.
- Ridgeway, Cecilia (Ph.D., Cornell 1972) Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and (by courtesy) of Education.
Areas: Social Psychology, Group Processes, Gender, and Social Inequality.
- Rosenfeld, Michael (Ph.D., Chicago 2000) Associate Professor of Sociology.
Areas: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.
- Sandefur, Rebecca (Ph.D., Chicago 2001) Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) of Law.
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; Tong Yang, Korea Foundation; Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies; Director, Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center; Senior Fellow,Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Founding Director, Korean Studies Program.
Areas: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Movements; Political Economy of East Asia; Korean Society and Politics.
- Snipp, C. Matthew (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison 1981) Burney C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Director Secure Data Center, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.
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; Fisher Family Director of International Comparative and Area Studies; 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.
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; 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 Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and (by courtesy) School of Education, Emeritus.
Areas: Education; Political Sociology; Comparative Sociology
- Scott, W. Richard (Ph.D., Chicago 1961) Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 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.
Parenthetical, Affiliated and Other Faculty:
- 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) Lecturer in the Department of Sociology.
Areas: Religion, Organizations (Formal / Complex); Women and Work.
- Cronkite, Ruth (Ph.D., Stanford 1976) Consulting Professor of Sociology; Director, VA Postdoctoral Programs in Health Services Research and Medical Informatics; Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University Medical Center.
Areas: Health Services Research; Influence of Life Context Factors on the Course of Psychiatric Disorders.
- 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.
- 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) Lecture in the Department 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 in the 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.
- Soule, Sarah (Ph.D., Cornell 1995) Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business and (by courtesty) of Sociology.
Areas: Social Movements; Organizational Theory.
- Szelenyi, Szonja (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1989) Lecturer in the Department of Sociology; Associate Director, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Areas: Inequality; Gender; Class Analysis; Social Mobility; Post-Communist Societies; Political Elites.
- 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.