Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides

She received her Ph.D. from New York University in Sociology of Education. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and it spans the fields of special education, disability studies, sociology, educational leadership, and policy and law. She is focused on understanding how schools are both sites of educational opportunity and marginalization for non-dominant students, specifically examining how notions of equity, access, and opportunity are constructed in policy and law; how educational policies and laws impact long standing educational inequities; and how the social, historical, and cultural contexts of schools and the teaching and learning process relate to educational equity. She published her first book with Teachers College Press in 2018 in the Disability, Culture, and Equity Series. The book, entitled, Does Compliance Matter in Special Education: IDEA and the Hidden Inequities of Practice won the Outstanding Publication Award in 2020 by the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Her work has been funded by the WIlliam T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association. She also served as the Program Co-Chair for the Disability Studies in Education (DSE) Special Interest Group (SIG) for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for the 2019 and 2020 annual meetings. She currently serves as the Co-Chair (2021-2023) for the Disability Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the Annual Meeting Awards Committee Chair for the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the Program Co-Chair for the 2023 Sociology of Education Association annual meeting.

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