David B. Grusky | |
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Born | April 14, 1958 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Reed College University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Known for | Social inequality Social mobility |
Awards | 2004 Max Weber Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Thesis | American Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert M. Hauser |
Doctoral students | Kim 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]