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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 intersect with race, class, culture, politics, health…

Associate Professor Jackelyn Hwang has been named a Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellow, an endowed faculty fellowship recognizing outstanding scholarship at Stanford.

Jackelyn is an urban sociologist whose research examines how…

Michelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association's…

Professor Forrest Stuart has been awarded the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Prize, presented jointly by the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section and the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The award recognizes…

Sociology Coterminal MA student Jadon Urogdy (Class of 2027) was recently featured in the Stanford Report for his research on how Gen Z views political polarization. Urogdy and his classmates in the Political Science course Democracy in the…