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Professional Background
Professor of Sociology and Education
Educational Background
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B.A., University of Virginia, 1979
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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1984
Scholarly Interests
Educational stratification, sociology of the life course, research methodology,
school effects and effectiveness, and social organization of schools.
Selected Publications
Pallas, Aaron M. (2002). “Educational participation across the life course: Do the rich get richer?” Pp. 327-354 in Timothy Owens and Richard Settersten, Jr. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Socialization: Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 7. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science.
Pallas, Aaron M. (2003). “Educational transitions, trajectories, and pathways.” Pp. 165-184 in Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the Life Course. New York: Plenum.
Pallas, Aaron M., Matthew Boulay, & Melinda Mechur Karp. (2003). “On what is learned in school: A Verstehen approach.” Pp. 17-40 In Maureen T. Hallinan, Adam Gamoran, Warren Kubitschek, and Tom Loveless (Eds.), Stability and change in education: Structure, processes and outcomes. New York: Percheron Press.
Neumann, Anna, & Aaron M. Pallas. (2006). “Windows of possibility: Perspectives on the construction of educational researchers.” Pp. 429-449 in Clifton F. Conrad & Ron C. Serlin (Eds.), SAGE Handbook for Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Pallas, Aaron M. (2006). “A subjective approach to schooling and the transition to adulthood.” Pp. 173-197 in Ross Macmillan (Ed.), Constructing adulthood: Agency and subjectivity in adolescence and adulthood. Advances in Life Course Research Volume 11. Elsevier/JAI.
Neumann, Anna, Aaron M. Pallas, & Penelope L. Peterson. (2008). “Exploring the investment: Four universities’ experiences with the Spencer Foundation’s Research Training Grant Program: A retrospective.” Teachers College Record 110:1477-1503.
