Julie R. Posselt

Julie Posselt is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. Her research examines organizational behavior affecting access to and wellbeing in selective sectors of higher education, especially graduate education, elite colleges and universities, STEM fields, and the professoriate. Posselt is the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016), an ethnographic comparative study of faculty decision making in doctoral admissions. Her second book is Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2020). A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, she was a National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellow. She received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and the Early Career/Promising Scholar Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Today, Posselt is Director of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network Research Hub and the California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education, and is a member of two National Academies studies. Her research is also published in the American Educational Research Journal, Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Higher Education. Her work has been funded by the US Department of Education, Spencer Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and National Science Foundation. She lives in northeast Los Angeles, and in her free time enjoys playing with her shiba inu, running, hiking, yoga, and following the LA Dodgers and Green Bay Packers.