I am a historian of education and inequality whose scholarship examines the historical processes and current practices and policies that contribute to inequality today. Currently, I am a Term Assistant Professor in Education at Barnard College, Columbia University and a research affiliate with the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. My first book, The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia and Germantown High School, 1907 - 2014, was just released with Penn Press.
My scholarship has been published in Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record as well as Dissent, the Hechinger Report, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters, and the Washington Post. I am a co-author of the Green New Deal for Public Schools with an interdisciplinary group of scholars led by Dr. Akira Drake Rodriguez.
I have received funding for my work from Harvard University, the National Academy of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and others.
I completed a Ph.D. in History, a Ph.D. in Education, Culture, and Society, and a Master's in Public Administration at the University of Pennsylvania and earned my Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in History and Italian from Wellesley College. Before graduate school, I worked as an public and independent school administrator and teacher. I live in Morningside Heights with my spouse and two children.