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Dr. Karly Ford

Associate Professor of Education

Phone: 814-863-2655

404E Rackley Building
University Park, PA 16802

Department(s)

  • Education Policy Studies

Program(s)

  • Education Policy and Leadership, PhD
  • Higher Education Program, DEd, M.Ed
  • Comparative and International Education, Dual-title

Most excited about: Social Justice , Racial Justice and Equity

Current Research: How race is socially constructed by individuals and organizations.

Education

  • PhD, Sociology of Education, New York University
  • M.Ed, International Education Policy, Harvard University
  • BA, Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College

Biography

Karly Sarita Ford is an Associate Professor of Education and Sociology at Penn State. Her research focuses on higher education, race/racism, and the process of quantification of social categories. She received a Master 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 fourth edition: The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education. She is co-editor of the Review of Educational Research (RER), the highest-impact journal in the field of education. Her work has appeared in Educational Researcher, Journal of Higher Education, Minerva, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Race, Ethnicity and Education, and The Review of Higher Education, among others. 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.

Media

Here is a talk that I gave  to IPEDS educators:  https://vimeo.com/531843333/c139c0b545

Areas of Expertise

Expertise and Research Interests

Sociology of Education

Most Recent Papers

  • 2024 Viano, Baker, Karly Ford, Johnston-Guerrero. A Latent Class Analysis of Racial Terminology in Education Research: Patterns of Racial Classifications in AERA Journals. Educational Researcher, https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X241227901
  • 2024 Ward, Cate, Karly Ford. Culture of Hegemonic Collegiality: Pre-Tenure Women Faculty Experiences with the" Fourth Bucket". Review of Higher Education. 47 (2), 217-243
  • 2024 Rosinger, Taylor, Karly Ford. The Shape of the Sieve. Which components of the admission application matter most in particular institutional contexts?. Sociology of Education, 00380407241230007
  • Introduction to Sociology