David Grusky

David B. Grusky serves as Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he leads groundbreaking research on social inequality and mobility. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, he has shaped the field of inequality studies through his directorship of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and as coeditor of Pathways Magazine. His influential research spans critical social issues including extreme inequality trends, social mobility patterns, and innovative poverty reduction strategies. Throughout his career, he has received numerous accolades, including the Max Weber Award and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His scholarly contributions include seminal works such as "The Inequality Reader," "Social Stratification," and "The New Gilded Age," which have advanced understanding of late-industrial inequality, rent-seeking behaviors, and economic mobility. As founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality and current director of the California Welfare Laboratory, Grusky continues to develop new methodologies for monitoring poverty and inequality using administrative data and other innovative approaches.