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Associate Director of SIHER

Anthony Lising Antonio

Dr. Antonio is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Antonio’s work focuses on stratification and postsecondary access, racial diversity and its impact on students and institutions, student friendship networks, and student development. Recent publications include studies of engineering education and higher education federalism in the US. His work has been published in several leading journals including the Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Psychological Science, Review of Higher Education, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Antonio has received grants from Hewlett, Carnegie, Ford, Spencer, Sloan, and Irvine Foundations to support his work. Among his current projects are studies of engineering education and career persistence and college-going culture in schools. He has written several articles and papers on the impact of diversity on college students, work widely cited in amicus briefs written for affirmative action cases for the University of Michigan, and has co-authored the major SIHER report on K–16 policy reform, Betraying the College Dream: How Disconnected K–12 and Postsecondary Education Systems Undermine Student Aspirations.

Dr. Antonio received his Ph.D. and MA in Higher Education from UCLA and holds engineering degrees from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. Most recently, he was selected to the inaugural cohort of the Spencer Foundation Mid-Career Fellows Program, in which he will study network approaches to the study of college student development. With his co-authors, he was awarded the American Educational Research Association (Division J) Publication of the Year Award in 1999 and the Early Career Scholar Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2004.