Sociology of Education Faculty
Steinhardt Program Faculty
Richard Arum
Professor, Educational Sociology (Steinhardt) and Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley, 1996
His publications include: Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses with Josipa Roksa (forthcoming University of Chicago
Press, 2010); Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority
(Harvard University Press, 2003); The Structure of Schooling:
Readings in the Sociology of Education , co-edited with Irenee Beattie
and Karly Ford (Sage-Pine Forge, 2010); and Stratification in Higher
Education: A collaborative study of 15 countries , co-edited with
Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran (Stanford University Press, 2007).
Specialization in legal and institutional environments of schools, comparative cross-national research on education and social stratification, vocational education and school discipline.
Floyd Hammack
Associate Professor, Educational Sociology (Steinhardt)
Ph.D. (Sociology), Florida State University, 1973
His publications include: The Sociology of Education: A Systematic Analysis .6th Edition. With Jeanne Ballantine. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. 2009; "Social Capital, Financial Knowledge, and Hispanic Student College Choice." With Noga O'Connor and Marc Scott. Research in Higher Education 51,3, May 2010, 195-219; "Paths to Legislation or Litigation for Educational Privilege: New York and San Francisco Compared," Forthcoming in American Journal of Education ; "Teaching at the Secondary Level." With Dana Grayson. Pp. 831-841 in L.J. Saha and A.G. Dworkin, International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching . Springer, 2009; "For the Record: Editors' Introduction to a Special Issue on Small Secondary Schools." Teachers College Record , 110, 9 (September, 2008): 1739-1743; "Off the Record--Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Observations on the Small Schools Movement. Teachers College Record, 110, 9 (September, 2008): 2067-2072; "High School Reform, Again," Teachers College Record; "The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S." The Journal of Higher Education , 76, 1 (January/February, 2005), 89-106; The Comprehensive High School Today , Teachers College Press, 2004; Review of Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement , by Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider. American Journal of Education , 111,1 (November, 2004): 132-135; "Higher Education." Pp.321-327 in Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia . David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., and Alan R. Sadovnik, editors. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Specialization in high school reform, social inequality and education and currently studying the blurring of borders between secondary schools and post-secondary institutions in the U.S.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Associate Professor of Educational Sociology and International Education (Steinhardt) and by courtesy Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Michigan, 2003
Her publications include: Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Ambivalent Internationals: How American Social Scientists View the World. Manuscript in progress, with Mitchell Stevens and Seteney Shami; U.S. Academia and Middle Eastern Studies in Critical Perspective , Edited manuscript in progress, with Seteney Shami; "Exporting Higher Education: Offshore Campuses in the Middle East," with Elizabeth Hanauer, forthcoming at Comparative Education ; "Ambivalence, Pride, and Shame: Conceptualizations of German Nationhood," with Bess Rothenberg, accepted at Nations and Nationalism ; "Everyday Nationhood," with Jon Fox, Ethnicities . Volume 8, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 536-562; "The ‘Here and Now' of Everyday Nationhood," with Jon Fox, Ethnicities . Volume 8, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 573-576. Response article to Anthony Smith's debate reply (Smith, Anthony. "The Limits of Everyday Nationhood." Ethnicities 2008 8: 563-573); "Everyday Understandings of Citizenship in Germany." Citizenship Studies . Volume 10, Number 5, November 2006, pp. 541-570.
Specialization in relationships among cross-national studies of civic education and conceptions of citizenship, nationality, and ethnic identity among students and teachers.
Pedro Noguera
Professor of Educational Sociology and Teaching and Learning; Co-Director of the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (Steinhardt)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley, 1989
His publications include: City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming The Promise of Public Education (Teachers College Press, 2003); The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada from 1951-1991 (Lang, Peter Publishing, Inc. 1997); Urban Youth and Community Change (Taylor & Francis, Inc. 2006).
Specialization in schools and the urban environment, education and economic and social development, race and ethnic relations in American society, and education in other countries.
Lisa Stulberg
Associate Professor of Educational Sociology. (Steinhardt)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California-Berkeley, 2001
Her publications include: Beyond Bakke: The Political Development of Affirmative Action in College Admissions, with Anthony S. Chen, manuscript in progress; Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach, edited with Sharon L. Weinberg, forthcoming with Routledge; "The Teachers Union-Charter Impasse: Moving Forward from the New York Caps Fight," forthcoming in Education Policy Analysis Archives ; Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown . New York: Teachers College Press, 2008; "School Choice Discourse and the Legacy of Brown ." Journal of School Choice 1 (2006): 23-45; The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice, edited with Eric Rofes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Specialization in sociology of race and education, African American schooling, urban schooling, school choice, charter schools, and affirmative action.
Collaborative FAS Faculty
Dalton Conley
Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Social Policy (Wagner)
Ph.D. (Sociology), Columbia University, 1996
Among his publications are: Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America . (University of California Press,1999); Honky. ( University of California Press , 2000); Getting into the Black: Race, Wealth and Public Policy . (Political Science Quarterly, 1999); The Effects of Poverty on Child Health and Cognitive Development , with J.L. Aber, Neil Bennett and Jaili Li. ( Annual Review of Public Health, 1997);
Specialization in stratification/mobility, race, urban sociology, social policy, health and society.
Barbara Heyns
Professor of Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago (1969)
Among her publications are: The Mandarins of Childhood: Toward a Theory of the Organization and Delivery of Children's Services (forthcoming), Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling (Academic Press, 1978); and Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effects of Family and Schooling in America , with Christopher Jencks et. al. (Basic Books, 1972).
Specialization in the sociology of education; social stratification; post-communist transitions; sociology of childhood; methodology/survey research.
Ann Morning
Assistant Professor of Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), PrincetonUniversity(2004).
Among her publications are: "From Sword to Plowshare: Using Race for Discrimination and Antidiscrimination in the United States." International Social Science Journal (2005), “New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present” in New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century , edited by Herman DeBose and Loretta Winters (2002); and “The Racial Self-Identification of South Asians in the United States.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001).
Specialization in race and ethnicity, especially racial classification; multiracial population; demography; sociology of knowledge and science; immigration; economic sociology.
Caroline Hodges Persell
Professor, Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), ColumbiaUniversity, 1971.
Among her publications are: How Sampling Works , with Richard Maisel. (Pine Forge Press, 1996); Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools , with Peter W. Cookson (Basic Books, 1985); Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools . (Free Press of Macmillian, 1977); Understanding Society (Harper Collins, 1990), Careers and Training in Educational and Social Research . (General Hall, 1976), as well as scores of articles in refereed journals and chapters in books.
Specialization insociology of education (including multicultural education and for-profit schools), race and education, educational inequality, the impact of computer technologies on education, stratification, civil society, social justice, social research, and teaching sociology.