Julia McWilliams

Julia McWilliams is an anthropologist of education and Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program. Her research interests are urban education policy, immigration, and urban ethnography. Her recent book, Compete or Close: Neighborhood Schools under Pressure, and forthcoming book Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Reuse in Philadelphia explore the politics of mass school closures as well as what happens to schools after they close.

She teaches the urban internship seminar, senior seminar, and historically also taught courses in critical writing, qualitative research methods, urban education, environmental justice, and immigration and education prior to coming to Urban Studies.