Karly Sarita Ford

Associate Professor of Education and Sociology at Penn State

Karly Sarita Ford is an Associate Professor of Education and Sociology at Penn State. Her research focuses on higher education, race/racism, and the process of quantification of social categories. She is co-editor of the Review of Educational Research (RER), the highest-impact journal in the field of education. Her work has appeared in Educational Researcher, Journal of Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 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.