Department of Sociology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: NONE GIVEN
karabel@socrates.berkeley.edu
Jerome Karabel is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and Co-director of the Berkeley Project on Equal Opportunity. The author of numerous articles on higher education and social inequality, he is the co-author of The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985, which won the Outstanding Book of the Year Award of the American Educational Research Association. In fall 2005, his book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, will be published by Houghton Mifflin.
Since the 1970s, Professor Karabel has had a special interest in the social consequences of policies of university admissions. In 1989, he chaired the Admissions and Enrollment Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of California at Berkeley and wrote the report, Freshman Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond. His research on college and university admissions has appeared in such journals as The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Educational Record, Harvard Educational Review, and Theory and Society.
Professor Karabel is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Institute of Education, and in 1993-1994 he was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He writes frequently for non-academic audiences in such publications as The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The American Prospect, The Nation, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on such television and radio shows as Nightline, Today, and All Things Considered.
