Stanford Sociology
LightNews LightNews
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
Stanford Sociology
@stanfordsoc.bsky.social
72 followers 8 following 35 posts
Official Bluesky account of the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. https://sociology.stanford.edu/
Posts Replies Media Videos
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
Listen to Prof. Jackie Hwang share her research on how cities are changing over time on The Future of Everything podcast

youtu.be/8WPU53tgDoQ?...
The future of cities
YouTube video by Stanford University School of Engineering
youtu.be
September 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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
academic.oup.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
Congrats to Profs. Jackie Hwang and Robb Willer (@robbwiller.bsky.social)!

sociology.stanford.edu/news/robb-wi...
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 ...
sociology.stanford.edu
August 31, 2026 at 3:55 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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
doi.org
July 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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-...
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...
sociology.stanford.edu
July 27, 2026 at 11:08 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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...
sociology.stanford.edu
July 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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.
news.stanford.edu
July 13, 2026 at 6:23 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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...
sociology.stanford.edu
July 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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...
sociology.stanford.edu
July 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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,...
sociology.stanford.edu
July 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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/...
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.
journals.sagepub.com
June 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
Congratulations to our 2026 Urban Studies BA and our 2026 Sociology BA, MA, and PhD graduates!
June 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
Thanks for joining us--and for your thought-provoking keynote!

bsky.app/profile/sash...
sashakillewald.bsky.social Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 8
Had a blast at the @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
conference at @stanfordsoc.bsky.social last week, which allowed me to both gaze at Rodins & argue that sociologists should try to run our departments as if we believe scholarship on how to have equitable organizations.
June 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
robbwiller.bsky.social Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · Apr 22
Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people?

In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵
May 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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.
May 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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/...
The Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists
2026 AM: 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists
www.sssp1.org
May 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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.
www.kqed.org
May 4, 2026 at 3:58 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
robbwiller.bsky.social Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · Apr 20
Can AI voter guides help voters decide while remaining accurate, nonpartisan, and trustworthy?

Very grateful to @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social for a new grant supporting our next work on this (building on work led by Joe Mernyk & Jonne Kamphorst):

bsky.app/profile/robb...
robbwiller.bsky.social Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · Feb 9
🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨

We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇
May 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
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.
sociology.stanford.edu
April 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
www.cambridge.org
April 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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.
April 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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 background Prof. 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
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
‘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...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
stanfordsoc.bsky.social
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...
RSF Journal Contributors Discuss Their Findings from American Voices Project Interviews | Russell Sage Foundation
www.russellsage.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM