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Faculty

Executive Committee

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Karen Cook

Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity

Paul Brest

Co-Director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Professor of Law, Emeritus
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David Grusky

Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality, Professor of Sociology
Market Failure, Poverty, and Inequality

Jens Hainmueller

Faculty Co-Director of the Immigration and Integration Policy Lab

Simon Jackman

Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Statistics, Co-Director, Stanford Center for American Democracy
public opinion, data analysis, political methodology, and the analysis of elections

David Laitin

Faculty Co-Director of the Immigration and Integration Policy Lab
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Dan McFarland

Director, Center for Computational Social Science, Professor of Sociology
Social dynamics of educational systems

Paolo Parigi

Associate Director, Center for Computational Social Science, Sociology
Trust Studies in an Internet Mediated Environment
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Walter Powell

Professor of Education & Sociology (by courtesy), Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
The Mimir Project: What Drives the Dynamics of Science?
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Rob Reich

Associate Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Philanthropy, Policy and Technology Project
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Gary Segura

Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Center for American Democracy
Don’t Believe Anything You Hear and Only Half of What You See: Media Images and Stereotypes of US Latinos
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Matt Snipp

IRiSS Deputy Director , Director of Secure Data Center
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Mitchell Stevens

Education, Director of the Center for Advanced Research through Online Learning
Crafting the World: How Humanists and Social Scientists Make Knowledge in the Global Era

Current Faculty Fellows

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Jennifer Langer-Osuna

Graduate School of Education
"The Authority of Ideas: Supporting Equitable and Productive Student-led Work in Bilingual Elementary Mathematics Classrooms"
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Francisco Ramirez

Graduate School of Education
International Women's Human Rights
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"Racial Mobility: The Dynamics of Race and Inequality in the United States"
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Barbara Voss

Anthropology
"Burn Layer: The Archaeology of Anti-Immigrant Violence"
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"Model Uncertainty and Robustness: A Computational Framework for Multi-Model Analysis"

Current Seed Grant Recipients

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Arun Chandrasekhar

Department of Economics
Optimizing Network Referrals to Identify and Recruit Creditworthy Entrepreneurs
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Jens Hainmueller

Faculty Co-Director, Immigration and Integration Policy Lab, Department of Political Science
Immigration and Integration Policy: Causal Inference and the Evaluation of Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA)
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Brian Knutson

Department of Psychology
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust: The Role of Emotion

David Laitin

Faculty Co-Director, Immigration and Integration Policy Lab, Department of Political Science
Immigration and Integration Policy: Causal Inference and the Evaluation of Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA)
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Jeanne Tsai

Department of Psychology
Cultural Neuroscience of Trust: The Role of Emotion

Barbara Voss

Anthropology
The Archaeology of Transpacific Migration: Wuyi Qiaoxiang Archaeology Project, Guangdong, China