Sociology of Education Faculty
Steinhardt Program Faculty
FAS Faculty
Floyd Hammack (Director, Sociology of Education Program)
Associate Professor, Educational Sociology (Steinhardt)
Ph.D. (Sociology), Florida State University, 1973
Among his publications are: “High School Reform, Again” (Teachers College Record, 2005); Higher Education (in Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. RoutledgeFalmer, 2002); “Ethical Issues in Teacher Research.” (Teachers College Record, 1997); “The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S.” (The Journal of Higher Education, 2005); The Comprehensive High School Today (Teachers College Press, 2004); “Internet Resources: How Instructors Are Using the World Wide Web in Teaching the Sociology of Education” with Caroline Hodges Persell (in Teaching Sociology of Education, 2005).
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.
Richard Arum
Professor, Educational Sociology (Steinhardt) and Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Among his publications are: 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 (McGraw Hill 2000); and Stratification in higher education: A collaborative study of 15 countries, co-edited with Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran (forthcoming Stanford University Press).
Specialization in legal and institutional environments of schools, comparative cross-national research on education and social stratification, vocational education and school discipline.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Assistant Professor of Educational Sociology and International Education (Steinhardt) and by courtesy Sociology (FAS)
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Michigan, 2003
Among her publications are: “Challenge and Change in the German Vocational Education System since 1990.” (OxfordReview of Education, 2002); “Citizenship Education and Political Extremism in Germany.” (Political and Citizenship Education: International Perspectives)
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
Among his publications are: 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. forthcoming 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
Among her publications are: Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press, 2008); and The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice, co-edited volume with Eric Rofes (SUNY Press, 2004).
Specialization in sociology of race and education, African American schooling, urban schooling, school choice, charter schools, and affirmative action.
Collaborative FAS Faculty
Steinhardt 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.