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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Grok says: UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (Ed&IS) is a top-5 nationally ranked education school that merges the Department of Education (urban schooling, teacher prep, leadership) with the Department of Information Studies (library/informatics, digital equity, archival studies). … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In UCLA’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: UCLA Anthropology has a strong four-field structure and a dominant cultural-anthropology profile centered on race/ethnicity/diaspora, visual/media anthropology, urban studies, medical anthropology, migration, and engaged/public work. Its location in Los Angeles — the ultimate global, multicultural, media-saturated city — … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Stanford’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: Stanford Anthropology is a rapidly rising top-tier department that explicitly leverages its Silicon Valley location and the university’s massive tech/engineering ecosystem. It is especially strong in science & technology studies (STS), environmental anthropology, medical anthropology, digital ethnography, and … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In UC Berkeley’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: UC Berkeley Anthropology is a historic top-5 powerhouse with a self-described legacy of “innovation and leadership in emergent areas” and a four-field structure that leans heavily into critical cultural/medical/political anthropology. It emphasizes engaged/public anthropology, decolonial approaches, critical theory, … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Harvard’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: Harvard Anthropology is the undisputed #1 department in the discipline: unmatched four-field breadth (cultural, biological/archaeological, linguistic, medical), global prestige, enormous funding pipelines (NSF, Wenner-Gren, Peabody Museum ties), and a self-image as the place where anthropology “matters most.” The … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Stanford’s Sociology Department
Stanford Sociology is a rapidly rising top-tier department that leverages its Silicon Valley location and the university’s massive tech/engineering ecosystem. It is strong in inequality, culture, race/ethnicity/immigration, organizations, education, and especially computational sociology, digital media, and science/technology/society (STS) intersections. The … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Princeton’s Sociology Department
Grok says: Princeton Sociology is the smallest and most selective top-tier department in the country (typically 4–8 new PhDs per year). It emphasizes refined cultural sociology, economic sociology, political sociology, comparative-historical work, and inequality studies, all delivered with understated Ivy … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In UC Berkeley’s Sociology Department
Grok says: UC Berkeley Sociology is a historic powerhouse in social movements, political sociology, comparative-historical work, inequality, race/ethnicity/immigration, culture, and critical theory. It combines rigorous empirical methods with an explicit public-university mission of “critical inquiry… contributing to a better world” … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Harvard’s Sociology Department
Grok says: Harvard Sociology has enormous symbolic capital, deep ties to the Kennedy School, a mix of rigorous quantitative causal inference and high-profile cultural/qualitative work, and explicit research clusters in Inequality, Culture, Race/Ethnicity/Immigration, Comparative Sociology, Education, Health & Population, Crime … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the NYU Departments of English & Comparative Literature
Grok says: NYU English and Comparative Literature (tightly linked via shared certificates in Poetics & Theory and Comparative Approaches to Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South) sit in a downtown Manhattan ecosystem that rewards theory-heavy, activist-inflected work. Gallatin’s … Continue reading