Frontiers in Sociology of Education

Maureen T. Hallinan is William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, Institute for Educational Initiatives, at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include the effects of the formal and informal organization of schools on student's cognitive and social development. She presently is examining sector effects on student achievement. With over 120 articles in professional journals, Professor Hallinan is the author or editor of eight books and has chapters in several edited volumes. She is former editor of Sociology of Education, and is past president of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association and a vice president of the National Academy of Education. She is the recipient of the Willard Waller Award from the American Sociological Association, Notre Dame's Presidential Award and the Award for Excellence in Research on Catholic Education.