Sara Goldrick-Rab

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Sara Goldrick-Rab is an assistant professor of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1]

Dr. Goldrick-Rab is a co-author of the book Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded Access to College for the Poor (with Kathleen Shaw (Temple University), Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania)). In addition, her work has been published in academic journals such as Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Review of Research in Education, Sociology of Education, and Teachers College Record.

In 2006-07, she was a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

At UW-Madison, Goldrick-Rab is a faculty affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, the Interdisciplinary Training Program for Predoctoral Research in Education Sciences, Women's Studies, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, and a faculty associate of the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Dr. Goldrick-Rab received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.

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