At a recent UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix panel on “Wealth & Poverty,” Stanford Sociology Chair David Grusky described the United States as experiencing a “second Gilded Age,” marked by extreme…
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Phi Beta Kappa hosted a presentation by Tomás R. Jiménez examining the idea of the United States as a “nation of immigrants.” Jiménez argued that having a large immigrant population does not…
A recent Science article examining the growing persuasive power of artificial intelligence points to collaborative research by Robb Willer that helped establish how effectively AI-generated messages…
Jackelyn Hwang is an expert on the social dynamics of cities. In one line of research, she combines AI and Google Street View to measure quality-of-life factors – such as trash, blight, new…
A new study published today in PNAS Nexus led by Professor Forrest Stuart in collaboration with former Stanford PhD student Caylin Moore and Patrick Janulis of Northwestern University, offers evidence…
Professor Robb Willer and Associate Professor Jackelyn Hwang were recognized as leading individual contributors in the Computational Social Science Rankings, a metrics-based assessment of publication…
Professor C. Matthew Snipp has been named director of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE). He previously led the center from 2008 to 2016 and succeeds Professor…
Professor Michael Rosenfeld has been named director of Stanford's Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), an interdisciplinary program that explores how gender and sexuality…
David 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…
In an interview with the Stanford Daily, Robb Willer said he plans to spend his Guggenheim fellowship year working on longer-form research about political coalition formation — how groups come to…