Kari Phelan Kozlowski is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research specializes in racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality in education.
About
After receiving her BA in Communication from Wittenberg University in 2008, Kari spent a year volunteering with AmeriCorps VISTA. She was placed with a free legal clinic in Indianapolis, which at the time was the only legal clinic in the city to provide free immigration services to those who could not afford them. Because Indianapolis had a…
Teaching
As a sociologist of education, it is important for Kari that she provide the best possible education to undergraduates. In all of her classes, Kari hopes that students: Learn to differentiate evidence-based analyses from assumptions and opinion Use their sociological knowledge of inequality and their status as future college graduates to mitigate, rather than reproduce, inequality…
Research
Kari’s research on race and socioeconomic educational inequality explores how student demographics, schools and interactions within them, communities, and policies affect unequal student outcomes and experiences (academically and otherwise). Kari’s forthcoming book is: The Hidden Academic Curriculum and Inequality in Early Education Kari has written several peer-reviewed published articles, including: A Typology of Retaliation Strategies…
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