People Type: Education

The department offers both an advanced undergraduate course (648) and a graduate seminar (908) in this area. These courses examine education in its social context, including the relation between education and political and economic systems, the role of education in social and cultural reproduction and social mobility, the organization of school and schooling and the production of learning and other outcomes in schools. These courses are complemented by courses in complex organizations, social stratification, and quantitative methods, among other offerings. Related courses can be taken in the Departments of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Curriculum and Instruction. Faculty cover a wide range of interests in the field, ranging from the role of education in social stratification (race, class, gender and their intersections) to the relationship between education and health across the life course to how educational policies and practices can help reduce of exacerbate inequalities among students. In addition to courses in the subject area and departmental brown bags, students are encouraged to attend seminars in the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences.

Calarco, Jessica

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on education, families, and health decision-making. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic, racial, and gender inequalities in these settings, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering …

Elwert, Felix

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Felix Elwert, Ph.D., is a scholar of social inequality, social demography, and applied statistics.  He develops methods of causal inference and conducts research on the contextual drivers of inequality, income, education, and health. Ever on the lookout for ways to coax causality from data, Elwert collaborates with …

Gerber, Ted

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., Sociology University of California-Berkeley, 1995 Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology, Education, Methods and Statistics, Social Stratification Classes: Soc 360 Statistics for Sociologists Soc 496 Topics: Population and Society in Contemporary Russia Soc 633 Social Stratification Soc 923 Social Stratification Soc 952 Log-linear, latent class, and finite mixture models. Soc 971 Migration and Migrants Other …

Grant, Monica

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Grant’s current research focuses on gender inequalities in early life course transitions–primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with a focus on how increasing educational attainment and the HIV/AIDS epidemic influence other domains of life during the transition to adulthood. These interests have led to her most …

Grodsky, Eric

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the …

Mark, Nicholas

More information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., New York University (2023) Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology; Social Stratification; Family; Methods and Statistics; Education; Aging and the Life Course Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography and Ecology Interdisciplinary Training Program Research Interest Statement: My primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy …

Oh, Eunsil

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …

Ready, Douglas

Rich, Peter

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, where I investigate connections between structural inequalities and individual choices: Education: Ph.D., New York University (2016) Departmental Areas of Interest: Communities and Urban Sociology; …