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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're thrilled to share our new quarterly newsletter Palm Prints. The inaugural issue highlights the scholarship of several faculty, students, and alumni who use science to diagnose and tackle pressing social problems. sociology.stanford.edu/news-events/...
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Palm Prints
Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Palm Prints newsletter
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Stanford Department of Sociology is hiring! We have an open rank search and a senior search. Open rank position: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/appoint... Senior position: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/senior-...
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Appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. - Stanford University, California, United States
Appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.  The Department of Sociology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a faculty app...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New in @plosone.org: Drs. Christianne Corbett, Meghan O. Warner, and colleagues draw on interviews with service industry workers in the Bay Area to examine how workplaces can better prevent and respond to sexual harassment. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Sexual harassment at work: Targets’ perspectives on prevention and response
Harassment, including sexual harassment, in the workplace poses a significant threat to workers’ wellbeing and contributes to social inequities. Organizations play a pivotal role in both enabling and ...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Listen to Prof. Jackie Hwang share her research on how cities are changing over time on The Future of Everything podcast youtu.be/8WPU53tgDoQ?...
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The future of cities
YouTube video by Stanford University School of Engineering
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW in @pnasnexus.org: Prof. Forrest Stuart, Caylin Moore, and Patrick Janulis find that deploying unarmed safety practitioners to high-crime intersections can reduce behavioral-health related crime. The study examined the effect of practitioners in San Francisco. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Civilianized safety practitioners reduce crime and disorder: Evidence from a quasiexperimental evaluation in San Francisco
Abstract. Cities across the United States are experimenting with civilian-led alternatives to policing, yet rigorous evidence of their effectiveness remain
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congrats to Profs. Jackie Hwang and Robb Willer (@robbwiller.bsky.social)! sociology.stanford.edu/news/robb-wi...
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Robb Willer, Jackelyn Hwang ranked top computational social science contributors | Department of Sociology
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 ...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: PhD Candidate Emma Williams-Baron & Prof. Aliya Saperstein use the NLSY79 to explore the best ways to operationalize race/ethnicity in the study of inequality in the labor market, health, and education. doi.org/10.15195/v13...
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A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race
Article: A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race | Sociological Science | Posted July 9, 2026
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
PhD candidate @angelahe.bsky.social's research was recognized with the best student paper award from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption. Congrats, Angela! sociology.stanford.edu/news/angela-...
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Angela He honored with ASA Consumers and Consumption Section best student paper award | Department of Sociology
PhD student Angela He has received the Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Consumers and Consumption Section. The national award goes to the graduate student paper (publis...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Congrats to Prof. @mivich.bsky.social whose book The Division of Rationalized Labor (@harvardpress.bsky.social) received three awards this year! sociology.stanford.edu/news/three-n...
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Three national awards recognize Michelle Jackson's book on labor | Department of Sociology
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 fro...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sociology master's student Jadon Urogdy was recently featured in the Stanford Report for research on how Gen Z views political polarization. Read more about his and his classmates' findings! news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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What does Gen Z think about political polarization?
In a political science course, undergrads surveyed their own generation – and found more optimism about bridging divides than in any other age group.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Congrats to Prof. Forrest Stuart, who received the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance and Sociology of Law sections of the American Sociological Association! @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/forrest...
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Forrest Stuart receives ASA Peterson-Krivo mentoring award | Department of Sociology
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 As...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Prof. David Rehkopf has been named director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, which "envisions a world where people thrive across century-long lives—healthy, purposeful, and engaged at every stage." Congrats, David! @stanfordlongevity.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/david-r...
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David Rehkopf named new director of the Stanford Center on Longevity | Department of Sociology
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 doing...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congrats to Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social who received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's IPM Section! @asa-ipm.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/matt-cl...
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Matt Clair receives William Julius Wilson early career award | Department of Sociology
Associate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New in @contexts.org: PhD candidate Blyss Cleveland examines how pharmaceutical companies enlist Black celebrity women, like Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams, to market GLP-1 weight loss drugs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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GLP-1s Expand Access to Slenderness and Body Negativity - Blyss Cleveland, 2026
Blyss cleveland on the controversy surrounding the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Urban Studies BA and our 2026 Sociology BA, MA, and PhD graduates!
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Thanks for joining us--and for your thought-provoking keynote! bsky.app/profile/sash...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New in Nature Climate Change, Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social and @pascl-stanford.bsky.social examine the most persuasive climate change messaging strategies. bsky.app/profile/robb...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Following the Association of Sociology Graduate Students' recent town hall, graduate students and faculty received our department's new Stanford Sociology sweatshirts!
ASGS co-chair Emily Johnson holding up a sweatshirt and smiling. Sweatshirts in the background on a table.PhD candidate Caylin Moore smiling while wearing his new sweatshirt. A "Welcome to Sociology" banner is in the background.Five PhD students smiling in their new sweatshirts.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Prof. @mivich.bsky.social's book The Division of Rationalized Labor is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. Congrats, Michelle! @sssp1org.bsky.social www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/...
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The Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists
2026 AM: 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Listen to Prof. Tomás Jiménez discuss the cultural and psychological effects of Trump's immigration policies on Latinos in the Bay Area @kqedforum.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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The Psychological Toll of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Bay Area Latinos | KQED
We examine the cultural, psychological and societal impacts of Trump's immigration policies and how Latinos in the Bay Area are responding.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Congrats to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social and PhD candidate @jsmernyk.bsky.social for receiving a Stage 1 Seed grant from @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social, supporting their work on AI Voter Guides! bsky.app/profile/robb...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congratulations to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social (@pascl-stanford.bsky.social) who was just named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation! @guggfellows.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/robb-wi...
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Robb Willer awarded Guggenheim Fellowship | Department of Sociology
Robb Willer has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is one of five Stanford scholars awarded the fellowship.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New in @lawandsociety.bsky.social, PhD candidate N. Hardaway and Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social show how eviction court rules and norms funnel tenants into settlement agreements that teach them they are legally culpable and often reproduce their housing insecurity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @pnas.org, Prof. @asadasad.bsky.social and colls. @immigrationlab.bsky.social find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” local-federal collaborations in immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal activation www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Qualitative studies on local police collaborations with federal immigration enforcement authorities reveal risks to the well-being of noncitizens, particularly the undocumented, and their families and communities. Yet statistical evidence of these policies’ effects is mixed. We propose that quantitative studies may misidentify the timing of when these policies begin disrupting immigrant communities by relying on a policy’s formal enactment date to indicate its activation. We test this proposal in the context of Secure Communities, a federal program with a staggered rollout that asked local police to detain noncitizens they arrested for possible transfer into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and deportation. Individual states signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the federal government as a framework for their county-by-county activation of Secure Communities. Counties were not required to activate immediately; their formal enactment frequently occurred later when prompted by ICE. We find that the date when a state signed an MOA consistently predicts a county’s increased probability of receiving ICE requests to hold noncitizens in detention, transferring detained noncitizens into ICE custody, and removing noncitizens from the country. This relationship operates most strongly in counties with preexisting enforcement infrastructure between local police and federal immigration authorities. By contrast, while we find that enactment dates are associated with increases in each outcome, pretreatment trends render these relationships statistically indeterminate. Our results highlight how multilayered relationships between local and federal authorities allow for policing to be used as a tool for facilitating the preemptive implementation of immigration enforcement across the country at the expense of noncitizens and their families and communities.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
At this week's community lunch, we celebrated faculty books published in the last 5 years, covering a range of social issues from immigration and criminal justice to the division of labor in society and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.
About 30 or so Stanford students and faculty eating lunch. A slideshow of books published in the Stanford Sociology Department are displayed on a screen in the backgroundProf. Michelle Jackson and Prof. Gi-Wook Shin hold up cupcakes with images of their book covers on top of the icing. Physical copies of their books are in the foreground. A slideshow of other recently published books in the Stanford Sociology Department are in the background
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: @hyejk.bsky.social and Aliya Saperstein leverage over 300 survey transcripts to show how respondents and interviewers negotiate “epistemic ambiguity” when classifying a respondent’s race. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: PhD candidate Swan Htut shows how the ways that immigrants relate to ethnic and national labels in the US are influenced by nation-building and ethnic conflict in their home country. Congrats, Swan! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DZRMD...
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‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroad
Although literature on immigrants’ ethnic and racial identity formation has generally assumed the dominance of host-country schemas about race and ethnicity, recent scholarship argues that immigran...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What can we learn from immersive interviews with a large probability sample of Americans? Listen to Stanford-affiliated sociologists Grusky, Hummel, Fielding-Singh, and Chu discuss findings from the American Voices Project with @russellsagefdn.bsky.social www.russellsage.org/news/rsf-jou...
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RSF Journal Contributors Discuss Their Findings from American Voices Project Interviews | Russell Sage Foundation
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor! Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Master’s alum Ryan Cieslikowski shared research and commentary in a recent KQED news article on Stanford’s legacy admissions practices. bsky.app/profile/kqed...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Congratulations to Prof. Barbara Kiviat for winning the 2025 Theory Prize from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association! Read her winning article "The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt's recent article on moral reconciling in the legal profession is featured in the latest issue of @contexts.org. The feature was written by @elenavanstee.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
A screenshot of a brief article in Contexts Magazine summarizing the research of Prof. Matt Clair and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt on morals in the legal profession. The title of the summary is "good lawyer, bad lawyer" and contains an image of a law school graduate with a sign that reads "NOW WHAT?" The brief article was written by Elena G. van Stee. 
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This afternoon, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social and friends from around the world celebrated Prof. Mark Granovetter on the occasion of his retirement. We are proud to call him our colleague and wish him the best in this new chapter!
A group of colleagues seated, listening to Prof. David Grusky at a podium speaking about Prof. Mark Granovetter. A slide of Mark Granovetter and people attending on Zoom are projected behind the podium.A group of colleagues seated, with glasses of champagne raised in honor of Prof. Mark Granovetter. Prof. David Grusky is at the podium, with a slide comparing the annual citation counts of Marx, Weber, and Granovetter since 1950 projected behind him. In recent years, Granovetter has been accumulating more citations per year than Weber but fewer than Marx.Prof. Mark Granovetter, seated, with champagne and brownies, speaking to a few colleagues standing next to him.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This afternoon, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social and friends from around the world celebrated Prof. Mark Granovetter on the occasion of his retirement. We are proud to call him our colleague and wish him the best in this new chapter!
A group of colleagues seated, listening to Prof. David Grusky at a podium speaking about Prof. Mark Granovetter. A slide of Mark Granovetter and people attending on Zoom are projected behind the podium.A group of colleagues seated, with glasses of champagne raised in honor of Prof. Mark Granovetter. Prof. David Grusky is at the podium, with a slide comparing the annual citation counts of Marx, Weber, and Granovetter since 1950 projected behind him. In recent years, Granovetter has been accumulating more citations per year than Weber but fewer than Marx.Prof. Mark Granovetter, seated, with champagne and brownies, speaking to a few colleagues standing next to him.
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New in Sociological Methods & Research: Soc PhD candidate @davidbroska.bsky.social, @austin-van-loon.bsky.social, & Michael Howes show how combining human subjects and large language models can yield precise estimates at low cost, with implications for scientific productivity doi.org/10.1177/0049...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW! Call for papers for @russellsagefdn.bsky.social journal issue on "Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity and Gender Expression" edited by @stanfordsoc.bsky.social's Aliya Saperstein, @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social, & Bianca Wilson. www.russellsage.org/request-arti...
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Request for Articles - Gender Inequality Beyond Categories:
CALL FOR ARTICLES - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - Issue on Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity And Gender Expression
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Last weekend, we celebrated our 2025 @stanfordsoc.bsky.social BA, MA, and PhD graduates. Congratulations, everyone!
A graduate giving a speech from the stage facing the audience and away from the cameraA smiling graduate and their familyFaculty director of the BA program smiling with a graduateA group of coterminal MA graduates smiling for a photo with the faculty director of the MA program
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