Richard Arum

Richard Arum

New York University, Steinhardt School of Education

Professor of Sociology and Education

Phone: 212-992-9406
Email: richard.arum@nyu.edu

• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Sociology of Education (including Education Policy)

Professor of Sociology and Education; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences;
246 Greene - 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003 Office: 212-992-9406 Fax: 212-995-4140.
Education: (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996; M.Ed. Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1988).
Selected Works: Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007), coedited with Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran. The Reemergence of Self-Employment : A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2004), coedited with Walter Mueller. Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003) with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson and Sandra Way. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education (McGraw Hill, 2000), coedited with Irenee Beattie.
Current Research: Education, legal and institutional environments of schools, social stratification, student achievement and socialization, formal organizations, self employment.
Teaching: I am teaching methodology, stratification, and the sociology of education in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development) and in the Department of Sociology (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).