Name: João M. Souto Maior
Email: jms1738@nyu.edu
Program: Sociology of Education
Research Interests: educational inequality, the internal organization of educational institutions, quantitative methods, computational social sciences.
Principal Advisor(s): L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy.
Research Description/Bio:
João M. Souto Maior is a third-year doctoral student in the sociology of education program at New York University. He is interested in the internal organization of educational institutions, looking at how different school characteristics - such as resources, schooling practices and student body composition - influence students’ educational outcomes. Currently, he is studying the conditions under which school racial integration can mitigate black-white achievement gaps.
João is originally from São Paulo, Brazil. He received a BA in economics and a Certificate in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. After his undergraduate studies, he started as an economics doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studied for a year before transferring to NYU.