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David B. Grusky is the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor and Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He serves as Director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, co-editor of Pathways Magazine, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Population Health Sciences. His research examines structural inequality, mobility, and poverty, with an emphasis on data-driven policy solutions.
Grusky holds a B.A. in Sociology from Reed College (1980) and an M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His research addresses late-industrial inequality through multiple lenses: rent-seeking and market failure in income inequality; economic mobility; essentialist barriers to gender equality; cross-class interaction patterns; and the decline of traditional social classes. He pioneers projects leveraging administrative data and qualitative methods to monitor poverty and inequality, including the American Opportunity Study and American Voices Project.
Recent publications (2019–2024) focus on economic mobility, COVID-19 impacts, gender segregation, and poverty reduction. These works employ interdisciplinary approaches spanning sociology, economics, network science, and policy analysis, consistently emphasizing empirical rigor and actionable insights for reducing inequality.
Major honors include:
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Max Weber Award (2004, corecipient)
- Founder, Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality
- Former Presidential Young Investigator
As Faculty Director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Grusky oversees the annual State of the Union poverty reports and leads initiatives to integrate big data into social policy. The center collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to address contemporary challenges in inequality measurement and intervention.
