Joseph L. Boselovic

Profile

Joseph L. Boselovic is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Institute for the Study of Education, Democracy & Justice. Dr. Boselovic is a qualitative sociologist whose research examines the enduring nature of economic and racial segregation in American schooling with a specific focus on understanding the social contexts in which families choose schools.

He is currently pursuing two related strands of research. In the first, he studies how parents navigate the school choice process and how factors related to schooling, housing and parenting shape these choices in consequential ways. In other work, he explores how families of different socioeconomic and racialized backgrounds experience integrated schools and assess what makes a “good” school as well as the mechanisms through which these school contexts might alleviate or exacerbate social inequality.

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
M.S.Ed. in Education, Culture, and Society, University of Pennsylvania
B.A. in English, William & Mary

Activities and Honors

George Peabody Scholar in Sociology of Education, Johns Hopkins University, 2024

Peer Co-Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2024

Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2022

Selected Publications

DeLuca, S., Papageorge, N.W., & Boselovic, J.L. (2024). Exploring the trade-off between surviving and thriving: Heterogeneous responses to adversity and disruptive events among disadvantaged Black youth. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 10(1), 103-131. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.05.

DeLuca, S., Papageorge, N.W., Boselovic, J.L., Gershenson, S., Gray, A., Nerenberg, K.M., Sausedo, J., & Young, A. (2021). “When anything can happen”: Anticipated adversity and postsecondary decision-making. National Bureau of Economic Research, WP 29472. 

Mirón, L., Beabout, B.R., & Boselovic, J.L. (Eds.) (2015). Only in New Orleans: School Choice and Equity Post-Hurricane Katrina. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.