Carol B. Stack

Carol B. Stack is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. She is renowned for her work in anthropology, particularly focusing on urban and rural poverty, child and family policy, migration, race, gender, and later shifting to youth, work, and schooling. Her research emphasizes social science methodology and ethnography. She co-authored four articles with sociologist Linda Burton, including "Ethnography: The Method That 'Rocks Our Soul.'"

Her academic contributions include seminal books like All Our Kin and Call To Home, which critique structural barriers to social mobility. Stack is a public anthropologist advocating for engaged, reflexive ethnographic practices.