William Carbonaro

Professor

Research Interests

Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Research Methods and Statistics

Subfields

Quantitative Methods, Sociology of Education, Stratification and Inequality

Profile

William Carbonaro is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in educational inequality. His research examines how learning opportunities are distributed across and within schools, how those opportunities shape student outcomes, and how education and cognitive skills translate into labor market rewards. His recent work focuses on how school racial segregation influences ability grouping and math course-taking in middle and high schools.

Professor Carbonaro’s research is published in top journals, including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociology of Education, and the American Educational Research Journal. He currently co-edits Sociology of Education with Anna Haskins and is a faculty affiliate at Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and the Center for Population Analytics. He has expertise in quantitative methods and teaches a graduate-level course on causal inference.