David Grusky

David B. Grusky
David B. Grusky in 2015
Born (1958-04-14) April 14, 1958 (age 66)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materReed College
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forSocial inequality
Social mobility
Awards2004 Max Weber Award
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisAmerican Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1986)
Doctoral advisorRobert M. Hauser
Doctoral studentsKim Weeden

David Bryan Grusky (born April 14, 1958) is an American sociologist and the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. He formerly taught at Cornell University, where he was the founder and founding director of the Center for the Study of Inequality.[1][2]

  1. ^ "David Grusky". Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  2. ^ Lee, Felicia R. (18 January 2003). "Does Class Count in Today's Land of Opportunity?". The New York Times.