Walter W. Powell

Walter (Woody) Powell is Jacks Family Professor of Education (and) professor of sociology, organizational behavior, management science and engineering, and communication at Stanford University. He is also an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, The British Academy, and a fellow of the Academy of Management, and has honorary degrees from Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, and the Helsinki School of Economics. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the SSRC since 2000 and served as chair of the board and its Executive Committee. He recently served as the Sarah Miller McCune Interim Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is presently co-president of the Social Science Research Council until a permanent president is hired. His recent books include The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, with John F. Padgett (Princeton University Press, 2012) and The Nonprofit Sector, co-edited with Patricia Bromley (Stanford University Press, 2020). He is writing a book with former CASBS fellow Grégoire Croidieu with the working title, How Bordeaux Became Bordeaux, an historical ethnography of the 19th century fall of the aristocracy and the rise of mercantile and financial classes in the French wine world.