Faculty Directory
Dr. Kate Phillipo
Title/s: Assistant Professor
Specialty Area: Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, International Higher Education
Office #: Lewis Towers 1038, WTC
Phone: 312.915.6910
Email: kphillippo@luc.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Program Areas
- Cultural and Educational Policy Studies
Research Interests
- Student-teacher relationships
- Teachers' relational practices
- Teacher role definition and role boundaries
- Provision of social-emotional support services by schools
- School social work history, practice and fit with public K-12 schools
- Individual and societal responses to competition for admission to public K-12 schools
Professional & Community Affiliations
- American Educational Studies Association
- American Educational Research Association, Sociology of Education Special Interest Group
- American Sociological Association
- Mental Health-Education Integration Consortium
- Society for Social Work and Research
- Sociology of Education Association
Courses Taught
- ELPS 219 American Education
- ELPS 240 Urban Education: Policy and Practice
- ELPS 410 Sociology of Education
- ELPS 412 Sociological Analysis of Urban Education
- ELPS 510 Seminar in the Sociology of Education (Sociology of Teaching, The School as an Organization)
- RMTD 420 Building a Body of Evidence with Qualitative Methods
Awards
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow (2009)
- Spencer Foundation, Small Grant (2013)
- United States Department of Education, Promise Neighborhood Planning Grant, Subcontractor to Adams County, WI Promise Neighborhood Initiative (2013)
