International Symposium on Scientific Elites:
Concentration and Inequality

Daniel A. McFarland

Daniel A. McFarland is a Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology and Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. His training is in sociology and philosophy with degrees from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses in social network analysis, sociology of science, computational sociology, and relational sociology. His research spans a wide assortment of topics like social network dynamics and visualization, micro-foundations of relations, student resistance and social change, and the diffusion of knowledge innovations. You can learn more about Dan here: https://profiles.stanford.edu/daniel-mcfarland

Stephanie Beyer

Stephanie Beyer, Dr., is research associate at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society at the Leibniz University of Hannover. Her main research interests include higher education, sociology of knowledge, elites, field theory, health inequalities, geometric data analysis and mixed methods. She has published in Higher Education, Poetics, and is author of the monograph “The Social Construction of the US Academic Elite. A Mixed Methods Study of Two Disciplines”, Routledge, 2021.