Karen Cook

Karen Schweers Cook is an American sociologist and the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where she is also Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and the director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.

Biography

Before becoming a member of the Stanford faculty in 1998, Cook was a department chair at the University of Washington and then the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University.^[1] At Stanford, she is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and the director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.^[2]

Cook has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.^[3][4][5] She received the Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association in 2004.^[1]

Cook is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. She is a past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and a former vice president of the International Institute of Sociology and the American Sociological Association.^[1] She was named to the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees in 2012.^[2]

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