Sarah A. Soule is an American sociologist who is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior and director of the

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. She is known for her work on

organizational behavior Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour (see American and British English spelling differences, spelling differences) is the "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organiza ...

social movements A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of ...

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

, and policy change and diffusion.

Education and career

Soule studied Sociology and Political Science at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

, receiving her B.A. in 1989. She completed both her M.A. in Sociology in 1991 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1995 at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. She started her professional academic career at the

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in 1995, and was promoted to professor by 2005. After briefly working at Cornell University, she started as a professor at

in 2008. In 2009 she was promoted to the position of Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior, and 2016 she was named senior associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2023 she was named director of the

at Stanford. In 2025 she was appointed dean of the

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Research

Soule's research focuses on

, and policy change and diffusion. Her book, ''Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility'', looks at the role of social movements and activism in corporate action and social accountability. She has spoken about the increase in politics in the workspace in the United States, and establishing a business program designed to increase the presence of

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people in business leadership.

Selected publications

* * * * Reviews for ''Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility'' * *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Soule, Sarah A. Living people Cornell University alumni University of Vermont alumni Stanford University faculty American sociologists American political scientists Year of birth missing (living people)