
Education and Social Policy: Faculty and Staff
The education and social policy Ph.D. program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort between the University of Delaware's College of Education and Human Development and the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration. Faculty members involved with the program are listed below.
Sarah Bruch
Program Director
Sarah K. Bruch is an associate professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.
Her research focuses broadly on social stratification and public policy. In particular, she focuses on integrating theoretical insights from relational and social theorists into the empirical study of inequalities. She brings this approach to the study of social policy, education, race, politics, and citizenship.
Name/Profile | Research Focus | |
Sarah Bruch | skbruch@udel.edu | Social stratification and inequality; race and ethnicity; social policy and politics; sociology of education; education policy; quantitative methods; political sociology. |
Amy Schwartz | aeschwar@udel.edu | Education policy and urban economics, focusing on the nexus of schools, neighborhoods and public services and the causes and consequences of children’s academic, social and health outcomes. |
Joseph Trainor | jtrainor@udel.edu | Risk, Risk Perception, and Warnings; Organizational management; Justice and Equity; Infrastructure; Community Engagement and Civil Society; Disaster Science; Emergency Management; Quantitative Research; Survey Research; Qualitative research; Mixed methods; Interdisciplinarity, Research and Practice Integration |