Julie Renee Posselt

Julie Posselt is Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Southern California; Professor in the USC Rossier School of Education; Executive Director of the Center for Enrollment, Research, Policy, and Practice; and President of the Sociology of Education Association. Her research examines institutionalized inequities in higher education and organizational efforts to advance inclusion, equity and wellbeing, with a focus on STEM disciplines. Internationally recognized for her scholarship on admissions and systemic change, she is the author of more than 65 articles and three books, most recently Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education (Stanford University Press). She directs two research-practice partnerships: the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium and the NSF-INCLUDES Inclusive Graduate Education Network Research Hub. Posselt is a member of several national and international advisory boards, including the NSF Directorate for STEM Education Advisory Committee. She 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. Posselt held a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation, and earned her PhD from the University of Michigan.