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Prudence Carter is an American sociologist. She is a Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University.^[1] She has been elected president of the American Sociological Association with effect from 2023.^[2]

Carter previously served as dean of the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded The Berkeley Citation in 2021.^[3][1] She is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, an elected member of the National Academy of Education,^[4][5] and is currently Sarah and Joseph, Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University.^[6]

Education

Carter has a bachelor's degree in economics and applied mathematics from Brown University, an MA in education and sociology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MPhil and PhD in sociology from Columbia University.^[7]

Career

Carter was an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Harvard University.^[8] She served on the faculty at Stanford University from 2007 to 2016.^[9] Carter also served as the Faculty Director of John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities,^[10][11] and the Director of the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.^[12] From 2016 to 2021, she was Dean of the Graduate School of Education and E.H. and Mary E. Pardee Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.^[13] Before stepping down as the UC Berkeley GSE dean on July 31, 2021, she was awarded The Berkeley Citation.^[14][15]

Books

• Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (2005) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19532-523-2
• Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. & South African Schools (2012) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19989-965-4
• Co-editor with Kevin G. Welner of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance (2013) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19998-299-8

References

External links

• Prudence Carter publications indexed by Google Scholar