A. Gary Dworkin
Professor
- Phone: (713)743-3955
- Email: gdworkin@uh.edu
- Office: 491 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
Anthony Gary Dworkin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, where he has been on the faculty since 1973. He received an A.B. degree in sociology and psychology from Occidental College (Los Angeles, 1964), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Northwestern University (1966 and 1970, respectively).
Dworkin’s teaching and research have been in the areas of the sociology of education and race/ethnic relations, as well as sociological theory and quantitative research methods. He is a co-founder of the Sociology of Education Research Group (SERG), which conducts analyses of the factors that affect standardized test performance of public school students in Texas and assesses school climate factors for school districts. Dworkin and his colleagues at SERG have received grants and contracts from the U.S. Department of Education, the Texas Education Agency, the Houston Endowment, and several school districts in the Houston metropolitan area. The SERG team has presented their work on public school grade retention to the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., which published two of the studies conducted by the team. In 2001, Dworkin was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, conducting research on a national survey of Australians and an assessment of teacher burnout. He returns to the Australian National University as a Visiting Fellow on several occasions. Dworkin currently serves as Secretary of the Research Committee 04 of the International Sociological Association. He is Program Chair of the 2008 RC04 Midterm Conference in Barcelona, Spain and serves on the scientific committees of all RC04 conferences around the world.
A majority of Dworkin’s publications have also been in the areas of the sociology of education and race, ethnic, and gender relations. Dworkin has published some 90 articles and chapters, as well as several state-of-the-field articles on teacher burnout that have appeared in international encyclopedia and handbooks. Recent articles have addressed high stakes testing and public school accountability systems in the U.S. and elsewhere. Among Dworkin’s books are Giving Up on School (Corwin/Sage, 1991, with Margaret D. LeCompte) and a third edition of his race, ethnic, and gender relations’ text, The Minority Report (Wadsworth-Harcourt Brace, with Rosalind J. Dworkin) published in 1999. Dworkin and Laurence J. Saha (Australian National University) are writing and editing The Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching (Springer Publishers, The Netherlands, forthcoming). Dworkin currently serves as editor of a book series entitled "The New Inequalities," published by the State University of New York Press.
Education
- Ph.D.,Northwestern University, 1970
- M.A., Northwestern University, 1966
- A.B., (magna cum laude) Occidental College, 1964
