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Director Catherine Riegle-Crumb and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame hosted the 2025 Midwest Sociology of Education Conference on October 30, 2025 and October 31, 2025. The conference brought together 58 faculty members and graduate students from...

Associate Professor Steven Alvarado of the Sociology Department and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) was awarded a research grant by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grant Program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). His proposal "Danger in...

Timothy Hallett understands interactions — how they create culture, translate to organizational success, and fuel conflict. Hallett, a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, embeds himself in day-to-day operations of public and private organizations to examine “inhabited...

How do family dynamics, schools, and the justice system shape inequality across generations and communities? These are the kind of questions that drive Anna Haskins’s research. Haskins, the Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology, explores how the education system, the family, and the...

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...