LISA M. STULBERG
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York University, 246 Greene Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 992-9373 • Fax: (212) 995-4832 • E-mail: [email protected]
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University,
Fall 2009 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University,
Fall 2002 – Summer 2009
Lecturer and Acting Assistant Director of Studies, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies,
Harvard University, Fall 2001 – Spring 2002
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley, Sociology, 2001
M.Soc.Sci. University of Birmingham, UK, Master of Social Science in Cultural Studies, 1994
A.B.
Harvard College, Magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Sociology, 1992
BOOKS
2011
Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon Lawner Weinberg (Eds.). Diversity in American Higher
Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach. New York: Routledge.
2008
Lisa M. Stulberg. Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after
Brown. New York: Teachers College Press.
2004
Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg (Eds.). The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools:
Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice. Albany: State University of New York
Press.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
2016
Lisa M. Stulberg. “Charter Schooling, Race Politics, and an Appeal to History.”
In Pedro A. Noguera, Jill C. Pierce, and Roey Ahram (Eds.), Race, Equity, and
Education: Sixty Years from Brown. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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2015
Lisa M. Stulberg. “African American School Choice and the Current Race
Politics of Charter Schooling: Lessons from History.” Race and Social Problems,
7(1): 31-42.
2014
Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen. “The Origins of Race-Conscious
Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions: A Comparative Analysis of
Institutional Change in Higher Education.” Sociology of Education, 87(1): 36-52.
2013
Anthony S. Chen and Lisa M. Stulberg. “Racial Inequality and Race-Conscious
Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Historical Perspective on
Contemporary Prospects and Future Possibilities.” In Fredrick C. Harris and
Robert C. Lieberman (Eds.), Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racial
Era? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2011
Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen. “A Long View on ‘Diversity’: A Century
of American College Admissions Debates.” In Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon
Lawner Weinberg (Eds.), Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More
Comprehensive Approach. New York: Routledge.
2010
Lisa M. Stulberg. “The Teachers Union-Charter Impasse: Moving Forward from
the New York Caps Fight.” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 18(24).
2006
Lisa M. Stulberg. “School Choice Discourse and the Legacy of Brown.” Journal of
School Choice 1: 23-45.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Lisa M. Stulberg. LGBTQ Social Movements. Under contract with Polity.
Anthony S. Chen and Lisa M. Stulberg. Beyond Bakke: The Political Development of
Affirmative Action in College Admissions. Under advance contract at Princeton
University Press.
Fiona Greenland, Anthony S. Chen, and Lisa M. Stulberg. “Beyond the Open
Door: The Origins of Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Admissions at Cornell
and the University of Michigan.” Paper presented (by Chen) at the Policy History
Conference, June 4, 2010, Columbus, OH. Under revision for submission.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2016
Lisa M. Stulberg. Review of Tim Clydesdale, The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges
Must Talk to Students about Vocation (The University of Chicago Press, 2015).
American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming (July).
2015
Lisa Stulberg and Bryan S. Rosenberg. “The Amazing Lea DeLaria Talks Pop
Culture, LGBTQ Social Change, and the Radical Power of Big Boo and David
Bowie.” Huffington Post Gay Voices Blog. July 16.
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2015
Lisa Stulberg. “One Ally’s Story in Celebration of Pride Month.” Huffington Post
Gay Voices Blog. May 29.
2015
Lisa Stulberg. “George Wallace, Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, and the
LGBTQ Movement beyond Marriage.” Huffington Post Gay Voices Blog. February
24.
2015
Lisa Stulberg. “Ode to Football: A Sport I Kind of Can’t Stand.” Huffington Post
Gay Voices Blog. February 1.
2014
Lisa M. Stulberg. Review of Bernadette Barton, Pray the Gay Away: The
Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays (New York University Press, 2012). Teachers
College Record. June 16.
2014
Lisa Stulberg. “Beyond Bro Hugs and Open Doors: That Kiss.” Huffington Post
Gay Voices Blog. May 22.
2014
Lisa Stulberg. “The Perils and Possibilities of Transgender Visibility.” Huffington
Post Gay Voices Blog. April 4.
2014
Lisa Stulberg. “Jason Collins, Social Change and the Importance of Sports.”
Huffington Post Gay Voices Blog. March 6.
2013
Lisa M. Stulberg. Review of Shamus Rahman Khan, Privilege: The Making of an
Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Amy J.
Binder and Kate Wood, Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives
(Princeton University Press, 2013). Contexts. Summer.
2009
Lisa M. Stulberg. Review of Leigh Dingerson, et al. (Eds.), Keeping the Promise? The
Debate over Charter Schools (Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, 2008). Teachers College
Record. August 5.
2007
Lisa M. Stulberg. Review of Jurgen Herbst, School Choice and School Governance (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). British Journal of Educational Studies. December.
2007
Lisa M. Stulberg. Beyond the Battle Lines: Lessons from New York’s Charter Caps Fight.
Seattle: National Charter School Research Project, Center on Reinventing Public
Education, University of Washington.
1996-97
Lisa M. Stulberg. “Getting Big and Hard: Men’s Fitness Magazines and the
Construction of the Sexual Self.” Cultural Studies from Birmingham 4: 93-111.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2014-15
Steinhardt Professional Development Fund, NYU Steinhardt [$3,500]
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2013
Reviewer award, Sociology of Education
Given annually to reviewers of distinction
2012-13
Steinhardt Faculty Challenge Grant, NYU Steinhardt [$5,000]
2011
Steinhardt Professional Development Fund, NYU Steinhardt [$1,400]
2010-11
Steinhardt Professional Development Fund (with Sharon L. Weinberg), NYU
Steinhardt [$4,188]
2008-09
Spencer Foundation Research Grant (with Anthony S. Chen) [$40,000]
2008-09
Steinhardt Faculty Challenge Grant, NYU Steinhardt [$4,826.25]
2007
Steinhardt Discretionary Research Support, NYU Steinhardt [$1,500]
2006-07
Steinhardt Faculty Challenge Grant, NYU Steinhardt [$31,710 value]
2005-06
Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant (with Anthony S. Chen) [$40,000]
2005
Summer Research Grant Development Stipend, NYU Steinhardt [$5,000]
2004
W. Gabriel Carras Award, NYU Steinhardt
Steinhardt junior faculty research award
2003-04
Steinhardt Research Challenge Fund, NYU Steinhardt [$3,500]
1999-00
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley
University fellowship awarded to 12 doctoral students campuswide
1999-00
Blumer Teaching Fellowship, UC Berkeley
Departmental dissertation fellowship for recognition of excellence in teaching (declined)
1997
Gertrude Jaeger Prize, UC Berkeley
Departmental writing award
1994
Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, UC Berkeley
Multi-year fellowship, awarded 1994
1994
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Multi-year fellowship, awarded 1994
1992
Fulton Prize, Harvard University
Departmental award for the best undergraduate honors thesis in Sociology
1992
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University
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SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2015
“Defining Sex through Sport: A Look at Politics and Practices of Transgender
Inclusion.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for
the Sociology of Sport. Santa Fe, NM (Nov 4-7).
2014
“Interviewing as Relational Method: Pop Culture and LGBTQ Social Change”
(with Bryan S. Rosenberg). Qualitative Methods Group, Community College
Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University (May 28).
2014
“African American School Choice and the Current Race Politics of Charter
Schooling: Lessons from History.” “Brown 60 and Beyond” Conference. New
York University (May 16-17).
2012
“Beyond Disruption: The Forgotten Origins of Affirmative Action in College
Admissions, 1961-1969.” Education & Social Policy Faculty Speaker Series,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York
University (March 26).
2010
“Racial Inequality and Affirmative Action in College Admissions: A Historical
Perspective on Future Possibilities” (with Anthony S. Chen). Russell Sage
Foundation’s “Racial Inequality in a Post-Racial World?” Conference (May 21-22).
2009
“Gender and Individualism in American Culture.” Fulbright Institute on the
Civilization of the United States, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, New York University (June 23).
2008
“Gender in American Culture.” Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the
United States, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development, New York University (July 15).
2008
“Rethinking ‘The Burden of Acting White’: Successful African American
Students in a Successful African American School” (with Erin Cocke). 2008
Steinhardt Research Challenge Symposium, Steinhardt School of Culture,
Education, and Human Development, New York University (February 26).
2007
“Gender and American Individualism.” Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of
the United States, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development, New York University (July 9).
2007
“The Forgotten Origins of Affirmative Action in Higher Education, 1961-1969”
(with Anthony S. Chen). Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University
of Michigan (January 24).
2005
“Ethnicity, Race and Gender in American Politics.” Fulbright Institute on the
Civilization of the United States, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, New York University (July 8).
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2002
“Alternative Institution-Building and the Politics of Race and Schooling: The
Case of an African American Charter School.” Harvard Graduate School of
Education; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions,
New York University; Department of African-American Studies, University of
Illinois at Chicago.
2001
“Alternative Institution-Building and the Politics of Race and Schooling: The Case
of an African American Charter School.” Department of Sociology, George
Washington University; Department of Sociology, University of Vermont;
Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, Yale University.
2000
“Alternative Institution-Building and the Politics of Race and Schooling: An
African American Charter School in Historical Perspective.” Department of
Sociology, Barnard College; Department of Sociology, Wellesley College;
Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University.
2000
“Alternative Institution-Building and the Politics of Race and Schooling: An
African American Charter School in Historical Perspective.” Education
Colloquium Series, Humboldt State University (February 10).
2000
“African American Educational Equality and the Limits and Possibilities of
Charter Schools.” Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of
California at Berkeley (February 8).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2008
“Beyond Disruption: The Origins of Affirmative Action in Higher Education.”
Presented (with Anthony S. Chen) at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association. New York, NY (March 24-28).
2007
“The Forgotten Origins of Affirmative Action in Higher Education, 1961-1969.”
Presented (with Anthony S. Chen) at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science
History Association. Chicago, IL (November 15-18).
2007
“The Forgotten Origins of Affirmative Action in Higher Education, 1961-1969.”
Presented (with Anthony S. Chen) at the Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association. New York, NY (August 11-14).
2007
“African American Voucher Politics since Friedman and Jencks.” Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago,
IL (April 9-13).
2005
“History’s Lessons for Progressive School Choice Scholarship.” Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA
(August 13-16).
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2005
“Historical Perspectives on Progressive Educators and School Choice.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research
Association. Montréal, Canada (April 11-15).
2003
“Combining Ethnographic and Historical Archival Research: Methodological
Issues from a Study of African American Alternative School-Building.”
Presented at the Annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education
Conference. Pittsburgh, PA (June 5-7).
2002
“Charter Schooling and the Shifting Politics of Race.” Presented at the Sociology of
Education Association Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA (February 22-24).
2000
“Introduction: Towards a Progressive Politics of School Choice.” Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC
(August 12-16).
1999
“African American Educational Equality: Are Charter Schools the Answer?”
Presented at the Stanford University Conference on Race: “African Americans:
Research and Policy Perspectives at the Turn of the Century.” Stanford, CA
(November 11-13).
1999
“Desegregation Revisited: The Case of an Oakland Charter School.” Presented at
the Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Philadelphia, PA
(March 5-6).
COURSES TAUGHT
New York University
Fieldwork: Data Analysis (2012-2016)
Fieldwork: Data Collection (2011-2014)
American Social Movements, 1950s – Present (2010, 2016)
Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry (2009, 2010)
Departmental Doctoral Seminar (2009)
Sociology of Education M.A. Thesis Seminar (2007-2009, 2012-2015)
Freshman Honors Seminar in Education Policy (2005)
Introduction to Education and Social Policy (2004, 2005, 2008)
The Learning of Culture (2003-2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015)
Diversity and Professional Life (2003, 2004)
Qualitative Field Research (2002)
Foundations of Education: Educational Sociology (2002)
Harvard University
Social Studies 10: Social Theory (2000 – 2002)
Sociology 98st: African American Schooling and the Politics of Integration (2001)
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DOCTORAL STUDENT SUPERVISION
Dissertation chair
Nina Mauceri, in progress
Laura Davis, 2014
Abigail Uhrman, 2013
Alfred Chris Torres, 2013
Christina López, 2011
Thomas Cockbill, 2008
Tali Hyman, 2008
Dissertation committee member
Hilary Lustick, in progress (Gary Anderson, chair)
Alexandra Freidus, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Rachel Whorton, in progress (Amy Cordileone & David Montgomery, co-chairs)
Anindya Kundu, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Trenton Marsh, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Mijal Bitton, in progress (Harold Wechsler, chair)
Dixie Ching, in progress (Chris Hoadley, chair)
Sarah Ossey, in progress (Harold Wechsler, chair)
Frank Martignetti, in progress (David Elliott, chair)
Rachel Garver, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Ozen Guven, in progress (Dana Burde, chair)
Sarah Klevan, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Naomi Jefferson, in progress (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Natasha Walkowicz, in progress (Terry Astuto, chair)
Esa Syeed, 2015 (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Catherine Voulgarides, 2014 (Pedro Noguera, chair)
Christine Donis-Keller, 2014 (Floyd Hammack, chair)
Elizabeth Corrigan, 2013 (Mary Sue Richardson, chair)
Jehanzaib Khan, 2012 (Richard Arum, chair)
Patricia Munsch, 2011 (Frances Stage, chair)
Francine Seruya, 2009 (Jim Hinojosa, chair)
Zoë Burkholder, 2008 (Jonathan Zimmerman, chair)
Rachel Posner, 2006 (Iris Fodor, chair)
TEACHING AWARDS
2002
Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
1998
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
1998
Teaching Effectiveness Award, UC Berkeley
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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2013
Discussant. “Sorting Families into Schools” session. Russell Sage Foundation’s
“Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools” Working Conference. New York, NY
(February 14-15).
2012
Moderator. “Interrogating the Normal: LGBT Representations in TV” panel.
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY Graduate Center’s
“Radically Gay: The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay” Conference. New
York, NY (September 27-30).
2012
Symposium Co-organizer (with Sharon L. Weinberg). “Economic and Racial
Diversity in American Higher Education: A Current and Future Perspective
under Obama and the Supreme Court.” Sponsored by the Steinhardt Institute
for Higher Education Policy; co-sponsored by the Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences and the NYU Steinhardt Dean’s Office. New York, NY
(March 30).
2011
Session Co-chair (with Sharon L. Weinberg). “Diversity in American Higher
Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach” panel. Annual Meeting of
the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, LA (April 8-12).
2009
Session Chair. “Black, White, and Brown: Desegregation and its Dilemmas”
panel. Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society. Philadelphia, PA
(October 22-25).
2009
Respondent. “Educational Ethnography: Why, How, and For Whom?” panel.
Annual Conference of the Network for Research in Jewish Education. New
York, NY (June 7-9).
2005
Session Co-organizer (with Eric Rofes). “Towards a New Sociology of School
Choice” panel. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Philadelphia, PA (August 13-16).
2005
Session Co-organizer (with Eric Rofes). “The Sociology of School Choice: Public
Policy and Public Debate” panel. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological
Association. Portland, OR (April 7-10).
2005
Session Co-organizer (with Eric Rofes). “Urban Education, Communities of
Color, and a Progressive Politics of School Choice” panel. Sociology of
Education Association Meeting. Pacific Grove, CA (February 18-20).
2004
Session Co-organizer (with Eric Rofes). “Toward a Progressive Politics of School
Choice” panel. Phi Delta Kappa International Conference and Exhibit. Las
Vegas, NV (October 21-24).
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2003
Discussant. “Race and Education” panel. Annual Meeting of the American
Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA (August 16-19).
2001
Session Co-organizer (with Shawn Ginwright). “Schooling and Social
Movements” panel. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. San
Francisco, CA (March 29-April 1).
2000
Session Co-organizer (with Eric Rofes). “The Sociology of School Choice” panel.
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC
(August 12-16).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board Member: Sociology of Education (January 2011 – January 2014)
Article Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, Educational Policy, Social Problems, Sociological Focus,
Sociology of Education
Manuscript Reviewer: Indiana University Press, Oxford University Press, Polity,
Teachers College Press, University of Chicago Press
Grant Proposal Reviewer: City University of New York Research Award Program,
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2015-,
2008-10
Faculty Council and School Senate, NYU Steinhardt
2015
Faculty Search Committee Member, Special Education, NYU Steinhardt
2013
Co-Chair/Member, Strategic Priorities Group, NYU Steinhardt
2013
Doctoral Dissertation Challenge Grants Review Panel, NYU Steinhardt
2012
Undergraduate and Master’s Student Research/Creative Project Awards Review
Panel, NYU Steinhardt
2011-12
Faculty Search Committee Member; Media, Culture, and Communication; NYU
Steinhardt
2009-10
Chair, Faculty Academic Affairs Committee, NYU Steinhardt
2008-10
Ad Hoc Qualitative Methods Committee, NYU Steinhardt
2008-09
Faculty Search Committee Member, Childhood Education, NYU Steinhardt
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2008-09
Faculty Affairs Committee, NYU Steinhardt
2007-10
Faculty Fellow-in-Residence, Water Street and Founders Residence Halls,
New York University
2007,
Fulbright Committee, New York University
2009, 2011
2007-08
Coordinator, Education Policy Breakfast Series on Gender and Education,
NYU Steinhardt
2007,
2008
Steinhardt Faculty Challenge Grant Review Panels, NYU Steinhardt
2007
Mitchell Leaska Dissertation Research Award Review Committee,
NYU Steinhardt
2005-09
Dean’s Grants for Student Research Selection Committee, NYU Steinhardt
2004-05
Faculty Search Committee, Multilingual Multicultural Studies, NYU Steinhardt
2002-09
Commission on Gender, Race, and Social Justice, Steering Committee,
NYU Steinhardt
2002-08
Doctoral Affairs Committee, NYU Steinhardt
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2009present
Director, Sociology of Education Program, Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences in the Professions, NYU Steinhardt (on leave for sabbatical, fall 2010
- spring 2011)
2008present
Co-director (for Qualitative Methods), Interdepartmental Research Studies
Program, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions,
NYU Steinhardt (on leave for sabbatical, fall 2010 - spring 2011)
2012-13
Faculty Search Committee Chair, Sociology of Education, NYU Steinhardt
2002-03,
2004-05
Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences in the Professions, NYU Steinhardt
COMMUNITY SERVICE
1996-05
West Oakland Community School
Member of founding team and board member of public charter middle school