Through this edited volume of Erving Goffman's landmark work, 'Stigma', we commemorate the continuing contribution of Goffman's work on stigma to social psychology. As Goffman originally used the term, stigma implies some sort of negative deviance, or in his words, 'an undesired differentness from what we had anticipated.' Since Goffman's pioneering treatise, there have been thousands of articles published on different aspects of stigma. In this volume, a collection of up-and-coming and seasoned stigma researchers provide both theoretical insights and new empirical findings.