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.

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/...

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...

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...

We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor! Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

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...

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/...

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....

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!

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!

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...

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...

Last weekend, we celebrated our 2025 @stanfordsoc.bsky.social BA, MA, and PhD graduates. Congratulations, everyone!