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Julie Posselt is Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, Associate Dean of the USC Graduate School, Executive Director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice (CERPP), and President of the Sociology of Education Association. Her research examines institutionalized inequities in higher education and organizational efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is an internationally recognized expert on admissions in selective sectors of higher education — elite universities, graduate education, and STEM fields — where longstanding practices and cultural norms are being negotiated to identify talent and educate students in a changing society.

Posselt is an author of more than 75 publications and three books, most recently Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford University Press). She is a six-time NSF Principal Investigator and currently directs two research-practice partnerships: the Sloan Foundation-funded Equity in Graduate Education Consortium and the NSF-INCLUDES Inclusive Graduate Education Network Research Hub. Posselt received the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award as well as the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Promising Scholar/ Early Career Award. She held a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation, and earned her PhD from the University of Michigan.