Joel Mittleman

Concentration
Sociology
Bio

Joel Mittleman is the William P. and Hazel B. White Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a faculty affiliate in the Gender Studies Program and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. For the 2023/24 academic year, he is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellow.

Mittleman’s sole-authored research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Gender & Society, Sociology of Education, Socius, Journal of Adolescent Health and Educational Researcher. His study, “Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual America,” won outstanding article awards from the ASA’s Inequality, Poverty & Mobility and Sociology of Population sections as well as from the Sociology of Education Association.

Mittleman studies gender inequality in schools and society with a focus on LGBTQ+ populations. Incorporating insights from feminist and queer theory, his research applies quantitative and computational methods to large-scale, population-representative data. Across projects, he shows how LGBTQ+ populations encourage new ways of conceptualizing gender and new approaches to measuring the dynamics of gender inequality. As such, much of his research advances innovative methods for analyzing inequality beyond the binary categories of female and male.

Mittleman earned his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy at Princeton University, where he was a trainee in the Office of Population Research.

Office
4051 Jenkins-Nanovic
Email
jmittlem@nd.edu
Category
CREO Faculty and Professional Staff
IEI Fellows
Education
  • 2019 Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Princeton University
  • 2016 M.A., Sociology, Princeton University
  • 2013 M.Sc., Philosophy and Public Policy (with Distinction), London School of Economics
  • 2012 M.A., Comparative Education (with Distinction), University College London's Institute of Education
  • 2009, B.A., Swarthmore College
Publications

Mittleman, Joel. 2019. “Sexual Minority Bullying & Mental Health From Early Childhood Through Adolescence” The Journal of Adolescent Health 64(1): 172–178.

Mittleman, Joel. 2018. “A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspension and the Path to Juvenile Arrest” Sociology of Education 91(3): 183-204.
• Winner, David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Sociology of Education
• Winner, Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Population Section

Mittleman, Joel. 2018. “Sexual Orientation and School Discipline: New Evidence from a Population-Based Sample” Educational Researcher 47(3): 181-190.
• Selected Press: The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Blade, Broadly (Vice News)

Miller, Luke and Joel Mittleman. 2012. “High Schools That Work and College Preparedness: Measuring the Model’s Impact on Mathematics and Science Pipeline Persistence.” Economics of Education Review 31(6): 1116–1135

Joel Mittleman