Maureen Hallinan

Contact Information

Maureen T. Hallinan
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology
1017 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-8294
574-631-3606 (fax)
Email: Hallinan.1@nd.edu
Web: http://www.nd.edu/~mhallina/

Degrees

Ph.D., Sociology and Education, 1972, University of Chicago.
M.S., Mathematics, 1968, University of Notre Dame.
B.A., Mathematics and Science, 1961, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY.

Honors/Awards

Invited Fellow, American Educational Research Association, Fellows Program, 2008.
Elected to Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, 2007.
Excellence in Research on Catholic Education Award, 2007.
Faculty Award, University of Notre Dame, 2006.
Willard Waller Award, American Sociological Association for career contribution, Sociology of Education Section, 2004.

Educational research interests

Professor Hallinan’s research is primarily in the sociology of education. In particular, she studies the effects of formal and informal organization
of schools on students’ cognitive and social development. Her present research is an analysis of sector effects on student achievement

Current educational studies

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Bio

Maureen T. Hallinan, Ph.D., is the White Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Hallinan’s primary research interest is the effects of the formal and informal organization of schools on students’ cognitive and social development. Her present research is an analysis of sector effects on student achievement. She was the principal investigator of the study Comparative Analysis of Best Practices in Public and Private Schools, a five-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to determine the best practices adopted by educators to promote student learning and social development.

With over 120 articles in professional journals, Professor Hallinan is also the author or editor of eight books and has several chapters in edited volumes. She was president of the American Sociological Association in 1995-1996 and president of the Sociological Research Association in 2000. She was elected to the National Academy of Education in 1999 and was Vice President from 2000-2004. She is a member of these honorary societies: Alpha Kappa Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta, and the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. In addition, she is the recipient of the Willard Waller Award from the American Sociological Association (2004), and the University of Notre Dame’s Notre Dame Award for Excellence in Research on Catholic Education (2007), Faculty Award (2006), Research Achievement Award (2003), and Presidential Award Citation (1997).