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About Joao Souto-Maior
I am a fifth-year PhD student in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Broadly, I study the processes which shape unequal access to educational resources, particularly along dimensions of race and class. My current research investigates the formation of educational inequalities within educational institutions, with an emphasis on the role of organizational practices in producing these within-institution inequalities. I rely on a variety of quantitative methods, with an emphasis on agent-based modeling techniques, hoping to advance the use of computational methods—and the insights derived from it— within the fields of sociology of education and education policy.Joao Souto-Maior is a postdoc at the New York University’s Institute of Human Development and Social Change.
NBN Episodes hosted by Joao:
September 6, 2023
The Alienation of Fact
Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective…
August 31, 2023
This Is Our School!
Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School!: Race and Community R…
August 25, 2023
Suddenly Diverse
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At th…
August 13, 2023
The Unteachables
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (U Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black st…
August 25, 2022
Redefining Geek
Picture a typical computer geek. Likely white, male, and someone you’d say has a “natural instinct” for technology. Yet, after six years teaching tech…
August 3, 2022
Other People's Colleges
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E…
July 28, 2022
The Privileged Poor
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more …