Biography
Karly Sarita Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Education Policy Studies department at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between education and social stratification. She received a Masters of Education in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from New York University in 2014. Ford is the co-editor of a reader now in its third edition: The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. Her work has appeared in the Teachers College Record Online, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Ford's research interests are Higher Education, Sociology of Education, International Comparative Education, Institutional Variation, and Educational Assessment.
Research Interests
Higher Education; Sociology of Education; Education Policy; Social Stratification/Inequality; Comparative International Education
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology of Education, New York University, 2014
- M.Ed., International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2007
- B.A., Special Major in Sociology, Anthropology and Education, Swarthmore College, 2003