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Erin McNamara Horvat, Associate Professor of Urban Education
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Ritter Hall 246
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091


phone: (215) 204-6178 erin.mcnamara.horvat@temple.edu

Education

1996 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Education
1992 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Education
1987 B.A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Psychology

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Sociology of Education
  • Access and Equity
  • Race and Class and Education
  • African American Students
  • Urban Schools
  • The Achievement Gap

    My general interests are in the sociology of education, higher education, access and equity in education, social capital and qualitative methods. I am particularly interested in applying and extending the work of Pierre Bourdieu and addressing issues of access and equity in educational settings. I am currently working on an edited book that explores new approaches to the achievement gap in education and a project on the power and limits of parental social capital in schools.

Recent Scholarship

Horvat, Erin McNamara & Carla O'Connor, Eds. 2006. Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement.  Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Horvat, Erin McNamara & Kristine Lewis. (2003) Reassessing the "Burden of Acting White:" The Importance of Black Peer Groups in Managing Academic Success. Sociology of Education v. 76 (October) pp. 265-280.

Horvat, Erin McNamara, Elliot Weininger & Annette Lareau. (2003). From Social Ties to Social Capital: Class Differences in the Relation Between School and Parent Networks. American Educational Research Journal 40:2 pp. 319-351.

Horvat, Erin McNamara, (2003). The Interactive Effects of Race and Class in Educational Research: Theoretical Insights from the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. Perspectives on Urban Education. http://www.urbanedjournal.org/

Horvat, Erin McNamara. (2001). Rebuilding the Lives of Hight School Dropouts: Lessons from a Successful Program. Journal of Research in Education 11:1 88-95.

Horvat, Erin McNamara, (2001). Understanding Equity and Access in Higher Education: The Potential Contribution of Pierre Bordieu. In Higher Education Handbook Of Theory and Research, William G. Tierney, Ed. New York: Agathon Press pp. 195-238.

Lareau, Annette & Horvat, Erin McNamara, (1999). Moments of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Race, Class and Cultural Capital in Family-School Relationships. Sociology of Education 72:1 37-53.

Reprinted in: Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education, (Edited by J.H. Ballantine and J. Spade), Wadsworth, 2000.

Horvat, Erin McNamara & Antonio, Anthony L., (1999). "Hey Those Shoes Are Out of Uniform": African-American Girls in an Elite High School and the Importance of Habitus. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 30(3):317-342.