Sabine Stanley

About

Sabine Stanley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Space Exploration Sector of the Applied Physics Lab. She also serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Stanley leads the Magnetism & Planetary Interiors (MagPI) research group, focusing on planetary magnetic fields, dynamo theory, and the interiors and evolution of planets. Her research integrates concepts from planetary physics, nonlinear physics, fluid dynamics, geophysics, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), and scientific computing. She is dedicated to working with bright, enthusiastic, and self-motivated students and postdoctoral researchers with backgrounds in physics, planetary physics, astrophysics, geophysics, mathematics, or engineering science. Additionally, Professor Stanley is committed to promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in academia and science, ensuring that all members of her group are respected and valued for their identities and experiences.

Research topics

• Social Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Epistemology
• Art
• Biology
• Law
• Aesthetics
• Genetics

Selected publications

• Making something out of nothing: Breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place

  The Sociological Review · 2020 · 12 citations

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  Public displays of stillness and silence are increasingly found in contemporary life, yet have seldom been examined as social phenomena in their own right. We analyse people’s accomplishment, treatment and negotiation of an encounter with people ‘doing nothing’ – a breaching experiment comprising a group of students standing still in a city centre – and provide a granular description of the bodily practices whereby passers-by make ‘something’ out of ‘nothing’. Our ethnomethodological analysis of…

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• Assembling mindful bodies

  2019-08-13 · 10 citations

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  This chapter explores how mindful bodies are assembled within mindfulness-based therapies. Since the late nineteenth century, people of Anglo-American and Nordic countries have adopted Asian mind-body training regimes as therapeutic ways of living with industrial capitalism. Humanities scholars have shown how Buddhist disciplines such as mindfulness have been transformed as they move across time and place. Mindfulness has been made compatible with empirical science and turned into a secular psyc…

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• Awakening Psychology: Investigating Everyday Life With Social Mindfulness

  2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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  In this case study, we reflect upon our experiences of developing practices of social mindfulness, framed and applied as research tools. Social mindfulness involves bringing careful attention to everyday conduct, although we subtly disrupt the common sense, routine, and expected ways of living our lives. This case study aims to help students understand and practice social mindfulness, as a way to “wake up” to how everyday life is produced as being “normal” in various settings—at home, university…

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• SIGNIFICANT PHYLETIC EVOLUTION IS VERY RARE: EVOLUTION HAS BEEN PREDOMINANTLY PUNCTUATIONAL

  Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2022

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• BARRIER-ISLAND-LAGOON COMPLEXES AND MARINE TRANSGRESSIONS: AL FISHER’S BARNEGAT BAY STORY AND THE CONTRASTING HISTORY OF THE PLIOCENE PINECREST FORMATION OF FLORIDA

  Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2019-01-01

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Recent grants

• Experiments and Observations Based on the Finding that Scleractinian Corals Secrete Calcite Instead of Aragonite in Cretaceous Seawater

  NSF · $26k · 2006–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Ellen Compton-Gooding

  Institute of Paleobiology

  911 shared

• Patricia H. Kelley

  911 shared

• Donald R. Prothero

  911 shared

• Michael R. Sandy

  University of Dayton

  911 shared

• Daniel B. Blake

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  886 shared

• Carl W. Stock

  University of Alabama

  810 shared

• R. D. Hoare

  774 shared

• Mary L. Droser

  University of California, Riverside

  752 shared

Labs

• Sabine Stanley GroupPI

Education

• Ph.D., Geology

  Yale University

  1968

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