The Department of Education, Culture, and Society is composed of a group of professors and students committed to the study and pursuit of social justice in education. Drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology, social psychology, and cultural studies, the department offers an interdisciplinary framework for addressing questions about class, race, ethnicity, and gender in contemporary educational policy and practice in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary settings.

We offer Ph.D, M.S., and M.ED. programs. Our students can specialize in curriculum theory, anthropology, sociology, history, or philosophy of education. We believe that the ECS Department is an attractive place to work and study because it harbors a vigorous intellectual community in which there is a good deal of collaborative work and a sense of shared intellectual projects. Upon finishing their degree programs, students are highly employable and have the opportunity to take positions in research and teaching universities across the country.