Snipp Assumes New Role with IRiSS

May 21, 2012. Karen Cook announced the appointment of C. Matthew Snipp as deputy director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Snipp, who is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences, has worked with the Institute since its founding in 2004. He will continue to serve as director of the Institute’s Secure Data Center, providing access to microdata of the federal government through the U.S Census Bureau’s network of research data centers.

Snipp, an expert in social stratification, is the former director of Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. In his new role with the Institute he will help define and develop the Institute’s support for research computing in the social sciences, and provide leadership for many of the interdisciplinary research projects and centers at the Institute. This includes his contributions to the study of social mobility, in collaboration with Professor David Grusky, director of the Institute’s Center on Poverty and Inequality.

For nearly ten years, Snipp served as an appointed member of the Census Bureau’s Racial and Ethnic Advisory Committee. He also has been involved with several advisory working groups evaluating the 2000 census, three National Academy of Science panels focused on the 2010 and 2020 censuses. He also has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics as well as an elected member of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research’s Council. He is currently serving on the National Institute of Child Health and Development’s Population Science Subcommittee. Snipp holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.