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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Sociology Department

Title Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director Campus + Community

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Institute for Social Transformation
Education Department

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Schools and Academic Achievement
Community-based Research
Health and Wellness
School Reform and School Policy
Youth Studies
Sociology

Web Site

Primary Office Location Rachel Carson College Academic Building
202

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment, please email me to set up a meeting

Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1996

M.A. Economics, Northwestern University, 1994

Research Interests

Research interests include: education; children, youth and families; social policy; health and well-being; social inequality; cross-sector analyses; community-engaged research; quantitative methods; mixed methods

Courses SOCY 3A Evaluation of Evidence
SOCY 148 Educational Inequality
SOCY 141 Social Welfare
SOCY 196S Senior Seminar: Community-Engaged Research
SOCY 203 Research Methods
SOCY 250 Grantwriting seminar