Dr. Karly Ford
405E Rackley Building
University Park, PA 16802
Title
Assistant Professor of Education (Higher Education)Department
Education Policy StudiesCenters
Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE)Programs
Higher EducationComparative and International Education
Other Penn State Affiliations
SSRIBiography
Karly Sarita Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Education Policy Studies department at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between education and social stratification. She received a Masters of Education in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from New York University in 2014. Ford is the 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.
Areas of Expertise
Age Levels
Education Levels
Education Types
Educational Studies
Higher Education
Learning
Methodological Research
Social Issues
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Representative Publications
Patterson, Ashley, Karly Ford and Leandra Cate (2019). Digital Formations of Racial Understandings: How University Websites are Contributing to the ‘Two or More Races’ Conversation. Race, Ethnicity and Education (Accepted: Forthcoming)
Ford, Karly. (2019) Marrying Within the Alma Mater: Understanding the Role of Same-University Marriages in Educational Homogamy. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419867710
Ford, Karly. (2019) Observer-Identified Race and Ethnicity Data: Validity Threat. Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19860803
Rosinger, Kelly & Karly Ford. (2019) Pell Grant Versus Income Data in Postsecondary Research Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19852102
Ford, Karly. (2018). Persisting gaps: Labor market outcomes and numeracy skill levels of first-generation and multi-generation college graduates in the United States. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 56, p21-27 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2018.06.003
Ford, Karly & Ashley Patterson. (2018) “Cosmetic Diversity”: University Websites Transforming Race Categories to Serve Diversity Goals. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000092
Ford, Karly & Jason Thompson. (2016) Inherited Prestige: Intergenerational Access to Selective Universities in the United States. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 46, p86-98 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2016.09.002