Faculty and Lecturer Affiliates
Stanford PACS hosts more than 30 affiliated faculty and lecturers—representing disciplines from all seven schools across campus—who conduct research and teaching on philanthropy, civil society, nonprofit organizations, and social innovation globally.

Jennifer Lynn Aaker
General Atlantic Professor and Taubman Family Faculty Fellow for 2025-2026
Behavioral Science and Social Psychology | Graduate School of Business
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Nicole Ardoin
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Environmental Behavioral Sciences | Doerr School of Sustainability
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Rania Awaad
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Mental Health; Cultural and Faith-Based Psychiatry | Stanford Medicine
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William Barnett
The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations
Sociology | Graduate School of Business and Doerr School of Sustainability
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Michael Bernstein
Professor of Computer Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Computer Science | Computer Science Department and Stanford HAI
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Sarah Brayne
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology | School of Humanities and Sciences
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Katherine Casey
The RoAnn Costin Professor of Political Economy
Economics | Graduate School of Business
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Angèle Christin
Associate Professor of Communications
Communication | School of Humanities and Sciences
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Sara Constantino
Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Environmental Politics; Policy and Psychology | Doerr School of Sustainability
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Geoffrey Cox
Professor of the Practice
Higher Education Administration and Leadership | Graduate School of Education
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Larry Diamond
Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Political Science
Sociology and Political Science | Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute
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Jennifer Eberhardt
Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, William R. Kimball Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Law
Social Psychology | Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology
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Dan Edelstein
William H. Bonsall Professor of French and, by courtesy, Professor of History and Political Science and SCI Co-Director
Political Science | School of Humanities and Sciences
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Philip Fisher
Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood Learning
Psychology; Developmental and Psychological Sciences | Graduate School of Education
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Tomás Jiménez
Joan B. Ford Professor and Faculty Director, Institute for Advancing Just Societies
Sociology | School of Humanities and Sciences
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Nita Singh Kaushal
Lecturer at Stanford School of Engineering, Business and Technology Director at Stanford Continuing Studies
Electrical Engineering and Leadership | Stanford Engineering and Stanford Continuing Studies
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Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies
Religious Studies | Graduate School of Education
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Meira Levinson
Professor of Education
Philosophy of Education | Graduate School of Education
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Irene Lo
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Operations Research | Stanford Engineering
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Prashant Loyalka
Associate Professor of Education and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Education and Economics | Graduate School of Education and Freeman Spogli Institute
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Neil Malhotra
Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy
Political Science | Graduate School of Business
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Maya Mathur
Associate Professor, Quantitative Sciences Unit, Biomedical Informatics
Statistical Methodology and Plant-Based Food | Stanford Medicine
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Bruce McCandliss
Pigott Family Graduate School of Education Professor
Educational Neuroscience | Graduate School of Education
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Nathaniel Persily
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law
Political Science and Communication | Stanford Law School and Freeman Spogli Institute
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Denise Pope
Senior Lecturer and Co-Founder, Challenge Success
Education | Graduate School of Education
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Hayagreeva Rao
Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
Sociology | Graduate School of Business
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Beth Schueler
Associate Professor of Education
Education Policy, Politics, and Governance | Graduate School of Education
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Mitchell L. Stevens
Professor of Education and, by courtesy, Sociology
Sociology | Graduate School of Education
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Fred Turner
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
Communication | School of Humanities and Sciences
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Madalina Vlasceanu
Assistant Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Climate Cognition Lab
Psychology | Doerr School of Sustainability
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Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Natural Language Processing | Computer Science Department
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