Sarah A. Soule
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Bio
Sarah A. Soule is The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology. She has written two books, the first with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility, and the second with Norton, called A Primer on Social Movements. She is a member of the founding team of Sociological Science, and serves on the editorial boards of Stanford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Her recent research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and the Administrative Science Quarterly. She has served on a number of boards of nonprofit organizations, is currently a member of the board of advisors to the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the Stanford d.school), and the international advisory board to the president of the Stockholm School of Economics.
Administrative Titles
Academic Degrees
- PhD in Sociology, Cornell University, 1995
- MA in Sociology, Cornell University, 1991
- BA in Sociology, University of Vermont, 1989
Academic Appointments
- At Stanford University since 2008
Awards and Honors
- Hank McKinnell-Pfizer Inc. Faculty Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2014
- James and Doris McNamara Faculty Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2011
- GSB Trust Faculty Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2010
- Member, Sociological Research Association, 2009
- Fellow, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University, 2009
- Magellan Circle Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, University of Arizona, 2006
- Nominee, Provost’s General Education Teaching Award, University of Arizona, 2001
- Social and Behavioral Sciences Lower-Division Teaching Award, University of Arizona, 2000