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Paul Sniderman
Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy
BioPaul M. Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy.
Sniderman’s research focuses on multiculturalism and politics in Western Europe and spatial reasoning.
He coauthored The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslims and Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2020) with Elisabeth Ivarsflaten.
He has published many other books, including When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands (Princeton University Press, 2007) with Louk Hagendoorn, Reasoning and Choice, The Scar of Race, Reaching beyond Race, The Outsider, and Black Pride and Black Prejudice, in addition to a plethora of articles. He initiated the use of computer-assisted interviewing to combine randomized experiments and general population survey research.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize, 1992; the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award, 1994; an award for the Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Meyers Center, 1994; the Gladys M. Kammerer Award, 1998; the Pi Sigma Alpha Award; and the Ralph J. Bunche Award, 2003.
Sniderman received his B.A. degree (philosophy) from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. -
C. Matthew Snipp
Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor
BioC. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. He is also the Director for the Institute for Research in the Social Science’s Secure Data Center and formerly directed Stanford’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE). Before moving to Stanford in 1996, he was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. He has been a Research Fellow at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Professor Snipp has published 3 books and over 70 articles and book chapters on demography, economic development, poverty and unemployment. His current research and writing deals with the methodology of racial measurement, changes in the social and economic well-being of American ethnic minorities, and American Indian education. For nearly ten years, he served as an appointed member of the Census Bureau’s Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee. He also has been involved with several advisory working groups evaluating the 2000 census, three National Academy of Science panels focused on the 2010 and 2020 censuses. He also has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics as well as an elected member of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research’s Council. He is currently serving on the National Institute of Child Health and Development’s Population Science Subcommittee. Snipp holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
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Tamara Nicole Sobomehin
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and EthnicityBioTamara Nicole Sobomehin is a PhD student at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, specializing in Learning Sciences and Technology Design and Curriculum Studies & Teacher Education (Science, Engineering, and Technology), with a PhD minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Alongside her four amazing children and her husband, Olatunde, she centers the principles of Love and Ujima to embody the commitment to collective work and responsibility required to advance social sustainability and restorative community and school design. Her research examines joyful learning, positive design, equity in Ed|TECH|Edu, and community-rooted learning initiatives to generate scholarship and technologies that advance a praxis of care, connectedness, and creativity.
Tamara is passionate about empowering children by designing meaningful experiences that foster agentic engagement and creative confidence in their learning. She is president of the Ravenswood City School District Board of Trustees, serving her second term as an elected school board member (2018-2022; 2022-2026), and is a co-founder and the Chief Education Officer at StreetCode Academy, an award-winning tech education organization with a mission to empower communities of color with the mindsets, skills, and access to participate in the innovation ecosystem. At StreetCode Academy, Tamara creates and supervises all learning initiatives, helping community members develop creative confidence and technical skills in coding, entrepreneurship, and design.
Tamara holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Sociology from Stanford University, and an MEd in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. -
Edward I. Solomon
Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProf. Solomon's work spans physical-inorganic, bioinorganic, and theoretical-inorganic chemistry, focusing on spectroscopic elucidation of the electronic structure of transition metal complexes and its contribution to reactivity. He has advanced our understanding of metal sites involved in electron transfer, copper sites involved in O2 binding, activation and reduction to water, structure/function correlations over non-heme iron enzymes, and correlation of biological to heterogeneous catalysis.
