Joanne W. Golann

Joanne W. Golann is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education and an Assistant Professor of Sociology (secondary) at Vanderbilt University. Trained as a sociologist and an ethnographer, she seeks to understand how schools and families transmit cultural skills, behaviors, and habits to children. Her research has been published in Sociology of Education, American Educational Research Journal, and American Behavioral Scientist, and been featured in the New York Times, Education Week, Washington Post, Next City, The Atlantic, HuffPost, EduShyster, and The Guardian. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in English from Amherst College.