Jeremy Freese


Jeremy Jay Freese is an American sociologist and author. He is professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he is also the co-leader of the Health Disparities Working Group in the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. He previously served as professor of sociology at Northwestern University from 2007 to 2015, where he chaired the Department of Sociology from 2010 to 2013 and served as Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Sociology from 2013 to 2015. In 2008, he created the computer game Violet. He began blogging in 2003 because he was bored. In 2007, he was one of four sociologist bloggers profiled in the American Sociological Association's magazine Footnotes.