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

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.