Doctor of Philosophy

Sociology of Education

Noga Admon. Hispanic Students and the Decision to Attend a Community College.

Marci Borenstein (proposal). Organizing Immigrant Family Involvement: A Comparative Study of Two Urban Public Elementary Schools.

Jean Dauphinee. Factors Influencing the Institutionalization of Reading Recovery: A Survey of Schools in New York and New Jersey.

Karly Sarita Ford. Seeking Their Own Kind: Educational Homogamy and Social Stratification.

Jehanzaib Khan. School or Madrassa? Parents’ Choice and the Failure of State-run Education in Pakistan.

Christina López (proposal). Moving Up the Education Ladder: Second-Generation Dominicans in Higher Education.

Steven Oliver. Exploring the Utilization of Institutional Support Structures by Black Males on a Predominantly White Campus.

Catherine Wynne. An Analysis of Institutional Commitment and Goal Commitment at a Community College.

The list below includes initial or current positions for graduates of the Sociology of Education doctoral program in the past decade.

• Research Associate, Research Alliance for NYC Schools
• Assistant Professor of Education, Montana State University
• Senior Fellow of Research, The Graduate Center, City University of New York - Center for Urban Research
• Senior Research Associate,  Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, College of Education - Temple University
• Managing Director, Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, College of Education - Temple University
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal State University - Long Beach
• Assistant Professor of Special Education, Hunter College
• Assistant Professor in Ed Policy Studies, Penn State University

If you are accepted as a full-time NYU Steinhardt PhD student without an alternate funding source, you are eligible for our competitive funding package, which includes a scholarship and tuition remission. Learn more about our funding opportunities.

Eligible and qualified Sociology of Education applicants may also be nominated to receive a multi-year fellowship from NYU's Institute of Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training program (IES-PIRT).  NYU's IES-PIRT Program is committed to strengthening the pipeline of skilled researchers prepared to conduct rigorous and relevant education research. We intend to recruit students from groups underrepresented in education sciences, including scholars of color, students from low-income families, immigrant origin students, and individuals with disabilities. Qualified incoming PhD students may apply for a 4-year fellowship that includes a generous stipend, tuition coverage, and other benefits. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. To be considered for the fellowship, IES-PIRT strongly recommends that applicants signal their interest in the IES-PIRT fellowship in their application and check the expression of interest box in Steinhardt's application portal. When reviewing applications, the IES-PIRT committee is looking for a) a clear record of interest and/or commitment to research on causal questions in education science relevant to the U.S. context, b) demonstrated aptitude for and interest in quantitative methods and data science, as demonstrated by high grades in advanced math, quantitative methods, or statistics coursework in college and/or graduate school, and c) clear evidence of interest in developing research skills and knowledge in areas of education science. Learn more about IES-PIRT or contact ies.pirt.admin@nyu.edu for more information.