Dr. DaShanne Stokes is a sociologist, educator, and Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. His research examines how institutional power and social inequality operate across politics, social institutions, and crime. His work focuses particularly on how recognition, classification, and misrecognition shape legitimacy, criminalization, social belonging, protection, and political opportunity—and how these processes reproduce, conceal, and transform relations of power.
As an educator, Dr. Stokes emphasizes critical inquiry, evidence-based learning, and connections between sociological theory, research, and contemporary social problems. His teaching draws on his broad training and research experience to help students understand how individual experiences are shaped by larger social and institutional processes.
