Iwona Franczak

Iwona is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department. She is affiliated with the Center for Policy Research and the Program on Educational Equity and Policy. Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree, she worked for over a decade in a legal field and taught at different educational settings. 

Iwona’s research interests include educational inequalities, immigration, race and ethnicity, and evaluation research with a particular focus on the effectiveness of educational systems in reducing social inequalities. She is currently working on projects examining educational experiences of refugees and immigrants in schools and in the military. 

Educational inequality, stratification, immigration, race and ethnicity, evaluation research