Faculty

Research Interests Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Rene Arcilla - Professor of Philosophy of Education
    • Current Research: I have been working on a philosophical theory of liberal learning, one that distinguishes this learning from instrumental forms of learning and roots it in a vision of our human condition and of what is good for that condition.
  • Richard Arum - Professor of Sociology and Education
    • Education
    • Legal and institutional environments of schools
    • Social Stratification
    • Student achievement and socialization
    • Formal organizations
    • Self employment
  • Robert Cohen - Professor of Social Studies Education
    • Cohen is involved in research projects in history and history education. He is currently working on a political biography of Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964. His other historical projects include a study of desegregation
  • Sean P. Corcoran - Associate Professor of Educational Economics
    • state and local public finance
    • teacher labor markets
    • school finance
    • school choice and charter schools
    • applied econometrics
  • Karly S. Ford - Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology of Education
  • Peter F. Halpin - Assistant Professor
  • Floyd M. Hammack - Professor of Educational Sociology and Higher Education
    • High School Reform
    • Social Inequality and Education
  • Bethamie Horowitz - Research Assistant Professor
  • Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Associate Professor of International Education and Educational Sociology
    • Nationalism, Citizenship and National Identity
    • Right-wing Extremism and Neo-Nazism
    • Youth Culture
    • Comparative Higher Education Systems
    • Area Studies and Universities
    • Pathways for Non-College-Bound Youth
    • Cultural Sociology
    • Sociology of Education
    • Qualitative and International/Comparative Research Methods
    • Research Design
  • Pedro Noguera - Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education
    • Schools and the urban environment
    • Education and economic and social development
    • Education in other countries
    • Race and schooling
    • Immigration/Migration
    • Parents and schools
    • Leadership and school reform
    • Student achievement
  • Elizabeth M. Norman - Professor of History of the Professions
    • Public medicine
    • Bellevue Hospital Center
    • historical inquiry
    • qualitative methodologies
    • women in the military
    • prisoners of war
  • Diane Ravitch - Research Faculty
    • History of Education, Politics of Education, Federal Policy, Urban Education
  • Marc A. Scott - Associate Professor of Applied Statistics
    • Statistics
    • Stratification
    • Work and Occupations
    • Economics of Education
    • Higher Education
    • Biostatistics
  • Lisa Stulberg - Associate Professor of Educational Sociology
    • sociology of race and education, African American schooling, urban schooling, school choice, charter schools, affirmative action, LGBTQ politics and social change
  • Sharon L. Weinberg - Professor of Applied Statistics and Psychology
    • School Reform
    • Statistics
    • Statistics Education
    • Faculty Diversity
    • Higher Education
  • Jonathan Zimmerman - Professor of History and Education; Department Chair
    • Twentieth Century History of Education
    • Democratic Community and Education
    • Immigration History
    • The influence of schools on development