Jared Furuta received his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University, where he was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society from 2023 to 2025. He is broadly interested in understanding how the consolidation and fragmentation of cultural ideals at the macro-level can shape institutional change at the national and organizational levels. His research pursues these questions across areas including globalization, organizations, education, and the social sources of pro-environmental change.