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
• 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
• 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
    
• Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco - The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education
  • Immigration and globalization
  • Cultural psychology
  • Psychological anthropology
  • Culture and education
• 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