
Thomas Espenshade is a Senior Scholar and Professor of Sociology, Emeritus in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He has a broad background in social demography and has worked in the field of education for the past 15 years, first in higher education and more recently in early childhood education. His book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life (co-authored with Alexandria Walton Radford and published by Princeton University Press in 2009) received the Bourdieu Award in 2011 from the American Sociological Association for the best book in the sociology of education. Espenshade received his B.A. (Economics) from The College of Wooster, a Master of Arts in Teaching (Mathematics) from Yale, and a Ph.D. (Economics) from Princeton.