Text Box: Professor Stainback’s research centers on issues of social inequality including: its measurable extent, its causes and consequences, and the actions, behaviors, and social processes that serve to undermine and sustain it. He is particularly interested in how organizations influence both the allocation and maintenance of social stratification. From studies of aggregate patterns of social organization and inequality to studies emphasizing the importance of micro-politics, social psychology, and cognitive bias processes, his viewpoint is decidedly organizational. His ongoing research agenda examines race, class, and gender inequalities across a variety of social contexts (workplaces, colleges) and at multiple levels of analysis (individuals, organizations, communities). His previous research has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) and has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Public Health, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue University in the Fall of 2009, he held academic appointments at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Virginia Tech. He has taught courses in social stratification, the sociology of work, complex organizations, classical sociological theory, introductory sociology, and research methods. He is primarily affiliated with the Social Inequality specialization area; however, his research and intellectual interests also touch on issues related to family and work, mental health, politics, and law. Text Box: Kevin Stainback Assistant Professor Sociology

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Kevin Stainback

Purdue University
Department of Sociology
Stone Hall
700 West State Street,
West Lafayette, IN 47907

stainback@purdue.edu