Erin McNamara Horvat
Erin
McNamara Horvat is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Temple
University in Philadelphia PA. She is also Director of the Temple Young
Scholars Program, a four-year college preparatory program that provides
academic enrichment in math, science and technology as well as programming
aimed at creating a college going culture among North Philadelphia high
school students. Professor Horvat's research agenda has focused on issues
of access and equity in education. Her main fields of interest are urban
education, sociology of education, and higher education. Her work has
explored empirically how race and class shape access throughout the educational
pipeline. She has used the work of Pierre Bourdieu extensively as a theoretical
frame for her work and is interested in applying and extending Bourdieu's
theoretical concepts. Recent work with YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter
School as well as with YouthBuild USA has explored how to move students
who have left school prematurely back into the educational pipeline.