Professor Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at New York University. His areas of interest include education, legal and institutional environments of schools, social stratification, student achievement and socialization, formal organizations and self-employment. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Selected works include: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Richard Arum and Melissa Velez, eds. Improving Learning Environments in Schools: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2012). Yossi Shavit, Richard Arum and Adam Gamoran, eds. Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007). Richard Arum and Walter Mueller, eds. The Reemergence of Self-Employment : A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2004). Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003) with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson and Sandra Way. The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education, 2nd edition (Pine Forge-Sage, 2010), coedited with Irenee Beattie and Karly Ford.