Jessica McCrory Calarco

A Sociologist and Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jessica is an award-winning teacher, a leading expert on inequalities in family life and education, and the author of Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net. Her previous books include Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (with Mario Small), Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, and A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. Jessica has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Fortune, and CNN. She also writes the Hidden Curriculum newsletter and is a mom of two young kids.