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 sociology of higher education and race/racism in data collection. 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, Journal of Higher Education, Higher Education, Minerva, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education among others. 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
Education Levels
Educational Studies
Higher Education
Social Issues
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Representative Publications
2020 Rosinger, Kelly, Karly Ford and Junghee Choi. Holistic Admissions. (In press: Journal of Higher Education)
2020 Ford, Karly, Kelly Rosinger, Junghee Choi and Gabriel Pulido. Towards Gender Inclusive Postsecondary Data. (Accepted: Educational Researcher)
2020 Fernandez, Frank, Baker, David., Munoz, Ismael, Ford, Karly., The Secret of American Science Capacity: Mass Higher Education and STEM PhD Production. (Accepted: Minerva)
2020 Ford, Karly and Leandra Cate. The Discursive Construction of International Students in the United States: Prestige, Diversity and Economic Gain. Higher Education.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00537-y
2020 Holland, Megan and Karly Ford. Legitimating Prestige through Diversity: How Higher Education Institutions Represent Ethno-Racial Diversity Across Levels of Selectivity. Journal of Higher Education. 1-30 https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2020.1740532
2020 Ford, Karly, Junghee Choi and David P. Baker. Cognitive Skills and the Relationship between College Majors and Earnings. Industry and Higher Education. Vol 34, (6) 410-420 https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422220908187
2020 Ford, Karly, Ashley Patterson and Marc Johnston- Guerrero. Monoracial Normativity In University Websites: Systematic Erasure And Selective Reclassification of Multiracial Students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000154
2020 Ford, Karly, Kelly Rosinger and Qiong Zhu. What Do We Know About Race Unknown?. Educational Researcher. Vol 49 (5) 376-381 https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20923342
2020 Ford, Karly. Marrying Within the Alma Mater: Understanding the Role of Same-University Marriages in Educational Homogamy. Sociological Research Online. Vol. 25(2) 254-272 https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419867710
2019 Ford, Karly. Observer-Identified Race and Ethnicity Data: Validity Threat. Educational Researcher. 48(6), 378- 381. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19860803
2019 Rosinger, Kelly & Karly Ford. Pell Grant Versus Income Data in Postsecondary Research Educational Researcher. 48(5), 309-315. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19852102
2019 Ford, Karly & Ashley Patterson. “Cosmetic Diversity”: University Websites Transforming Race Categories to Serve Diversity Goals. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 12(2), 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000092