Professor Elizabeth A Armstrong, PhD

I am a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. I joined the U-M faculty in 2009, returning to my undergraduate alma mater. I graduated from Michigan with a double major in sociology and computer science in 1988. I received my Ph.D. from the UC-Berkeley Department of Sociology and taught at Indiana University-Bloomington from 2000-09. I spent 2007-08 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and 2018-19 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. My research focuses on the reproduction of gender, class, and race inequalities. I examine these processes in the domain of sexuality and within the organizational context of the university. I am co-author, with Laura T. Hamilton, of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality (2013 Harvard University Press). I am currently working with Sandra Levitsky and Kamaria Porter on how colleges respond to sexual violence. We have a 2020 Washington Post OpEd on the new Department of Education Title IX regulations.

Sub-specialities:
-sexual violence in higher education
-university responses to sexual violence
-Title IX
-class inequality in higher education