Lisa M. Stulberg

Lisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education, affirmative action in higher education, school choice policy and politics, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the author of Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press, 2008), LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity, 2018), and the upcoming How to Win a Culture War:

LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture (The University of Chicago Press, 2026). She is the co-editor (with Eric Rofes) of The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice(SUNY Press, 2004) and the co-editor (with Sharon Lawner Weinberg) of Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach (Routledge, 2011). She is a frequent speaker and editorial writer on schooling, pop culture, and politics. She received an A.B. from Harvard College, a Master of Social Science (M.Soc.Sci.) in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham in the U.K., and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley.