Faculty Expert Profile

Julia Burdick-Will is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University.

Her research combines the sociology of education and urban sociology to study the roots of educational inequality and examine the dynamic connections between communities and schools that shape opportunities to learn. She has studied the effects of concentrated neighborhood poverty on cognitive development, the geography of elementary school openings and closings, school segregation dynamics, and the impact of neighborhood and school violence on student test scores and high school enrollment patterns. Her current projects explore the role of exposure to violence, transportation, and neighborhood peers in school enrollment decisions.