Bonnie Siegler

Bonnie Siegler is a sociologist and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) in the department of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.

Her research focuses on how educational organizations and policies attempt to solve social problems, particularly problems related to race/ethnicity. She investigates how stakeholders think, talk, and make decisions about issues like inequality and segregation in education, and what these findings can tell us about broader trends in institutions, culture, and ideology. She is interested in school choice and parent school preferences, organizational equity commitments, and the relationship between political forces and organizational priorities in K-12 schools.

Her work has been published in Sociology of Education and Socius, as well as the Book Reviews sections of Social Forces and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Bonnie received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Sociology at Princeton University and a master's degree in teaching at Relay Graduate School of Education, focusing on secondary math. Bonnie is passionate about educational opportunity and worked as a classroom teacher prior to graduate school.