Wes Longhofer

Wes Longhofer is an Associate Professor of Organization & Management in the Goizueta Business School. He is an accomplished researcher, award-winning teacher, and active member of the Emory community. A sociologist by training, his areas of expertise and research, which have been funded by the National Science Foundation, include climate change, human rights, and social enterprise. His popular class, Business and Society, is the main reason he was once voted one of the Best 40 under 40 Best Professors by Poets & Quants - an award for which he is reminded every year that he is no longer eligible. Wes has received a number of awards for his teaching, including the 2018 Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2016 Marc F. Adler Prize for Excellence in Teaching. His most recent co-authored book, Super Polluters: Tackling the World's Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions, was published by Columbia University Press in 2020.

For more than five years, Wes has served as the executive academic director of Goizueta's Business & Society Institute, an academic research center that addresses complex challenges facing people and the planet through academic discovery and purposeful action. 

He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology of Emory College of Arts and Sciences and has also worked closely with the Global Health Institute, Center for Ethics, and Campus Life. Wes joined the Goizueta Business School in 2012 after receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Minnesota.