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Oct 6 2020 | MacArthur Foundation
Forrest Stuart has been named a 2020 fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Sep 22 2020 | Stanford News
Social scientists found that homicide victims killed in Chicago’s predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods received less news coverage than those killed in mostly white neighborhoods.
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery added new momentum to the Black Lives...
Sep 2 2020 | Stanford News
As the 75th anniversary nears of World War II formally ending in Asia, Stanford sociologist Gi-Wook Shin discusses how the conflict was never fully resolved in the region and the problems that still persist today.
September 2, 1945, is recognized in many American history books as the day World War...
Aug 4 2020 | ASA
Barbara Kiviat’s article, “The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores,” has won the Best Article Award from ASA’s Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity and received an Honorable Mention, Granovetter Award for Best Article, from ASA’s Section...
Jul 13 2020 | ASA
Aaron Horvath has won the 2020 Shils-Coleman Award for Best Student Paper from the Section on Theory of the American Sociological Association for his paper, "From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational supererogation and the transformation of nonprofit disclosure.”
The Edward Shils - James...
Jun 29 2020
Bethany Nichols won the Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Social Psychology section for her paper, "Disentangling Social Class-Based Discrimination: Comparing the Causal Effects of the Material and Cultural Markers of Social Class for Elite and Non-Elite...
Jun 25 2020
Aaron Horvath has won the 2020 Ronald Burt Student Paper Award from the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for his paper, "From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational supererogation and the transformation of nonprofit disclosure.”
Jun 17 2020 | The Stanford Alumni Association
The Stanford Alumni Association recognizes graduate students who have enhanced the Stanford community through their exemplary leadership of a student organization, creation of an event or program, or other unique campus contribution. These outstanding students have fostered a sense of belonging and...
Jun 8 2020 | Stanford News
Stanford sociologist discusses how race and class inequalities are embedded in the American criminal legal system.
Aaron Horvath’s Op-Ed on how civic organizations are responding to the pandemic in the Boston Review
May 20 2020 | Boston Review
How Civic Organizations Are Helping to Fight COVID-19
Nonprofits have proven to be critical links in the nation’s public health infrastructure, but even those with mandates unrelated to health and poverty relief are turning out to be integral to their communities’ survival.
