Rate My Professor Michael Sauder

Sauder co-authored the influential book Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability (Russell Sage Foundation, 2016) with Wendy Nelson Espeland, which won the Midwest Sociological Society's 2018 Distinguished Book Award. Other key publications include 'Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds' (American Journal of Sociology, 2007, with Wendy Nelson Espeland), 'A Sociology of Luck' (Sociological Theory, 2020), and 'Status: Insights from Organizational Sociology' (Annual Review of Sociology, 2012). He received the 2009 Sociology of Culture Section Award from the American Sociological Association for his paper with Espeland, as well as awards from the Midwest Sociological Society and the ASA's Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section. Sauder has served on editorial boards and proposed editing Contemporary Sociology. He holds a fellowship at the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt, Germany, and contributes to departmental leadership as Chair. His scholarship bridges sociology of education, organizations, and culture, influencing debates on metrics, status, and inequality across disciplines.