Name: Karly Sarita Ford
Title: Assistant Professor of Education (Higher Education)
Department: Education Policy Studies
Phone: 814-865-9756
Email: ksf16@psu.edu
Office address: 405E Rackley Building
Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/ksf16
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Ford's research focuses on the relationship between education and social stratification. She is co-editor of a reader now in its fourth edition: The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. Her work has appeared in Educational Researcher; Race, Ethnicity and Education; 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, and the social processes of collecting and representing demographic (race, gender, class) data. She received her master of education degree in international education policy from Harvard University and her doctorate in sociology of education from New York University.