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Sociology/CREO Graduate Student Maura Kramer received an honorable mention for the David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper Award of the American Sociological Association. Her paper Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates Within Schools as...

Karin Yndestad, newsletter editor of the Experts Corner, recently interviewed CREO Interim Director Amy Langenkamp. The "Experts Corner" is the Sociology of Education section newsletter of the American Sociological Association (ASA). During this interview, Langenkamp shares how why became interest...

Three University of Notre Dame faculty members have been named to the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. This prestigious annual list recognizes the 200 scholars whose academic work has most influenced educational practice and policy nationwide. All three are faculty fellows in Notre...

Sociology/CREO Graduate Student Maura Kraemer is anticipating the publishing of her forthcoming paper "Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding how Parental Racial Socialization Operates within Schools as Racialized Organizations" in Social Science Research's March 2025 edition. In this publication...

Former Sociology and CREO graduate student Andrew Hoyt is the founding Head of the Portage School of Leaders in South Bend. PSL is chartered through Trine University and is a part of the Career High School/Middle School network in South Bend, Indiana. Andrew earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and...

CREO Postdoctoral Research Associate Meaghan Mingo's article "Stay in a Child's Place: Adult Authority in Schooling in the Louisiana Delta" is now published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity of Sage Journals. Mingo performed over one year of ethnographical work and research at Abundance Junior High...

ND PIER Burns Fellow Sofia Duenas represented the graduate students at Fr. Dowd's Convocation and Inauguration Ceremony on Thursday, September 12, 2024. She spoke on behalf of the ND graduate students to offer a greeting to Fr. Robert Dowd in his role as President of the University. For more...

During the 2020-21 school year, the number of Black male students involved in disciplinary outcomes at school was disproportionately high compared to their enrollment numbers in kindergarten through grade 12, according to a report the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights published...

Sociology graduate student Jamya Robinson was awarded the Black Excellence Graduate Student Award by Notre Dame Student Government in collaboration with the Notre Dame Black Student Association. This award is intended to honor the outstanding Black community members on campus. The nomination letter...