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Biographical sketch
After growing up in the United States, I moved to the UK in 1999 to complete my undergraduate degree. I worked as a performer, journalist and teacher before returning to university. I completed my PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2014. Following this, I worked at the Open University as a research assistant and for a London grassroots charity as a researcher. In 2015 I was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge where I worked from 2016-2019. My research monograph, Factories for Learning, was published in 2017 by Manchester University Press. It received the Society for Educational Studies Book Prize 2018 and is currently being translated into Japanese. I have also been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the University of Copenhagen
| Since September 2019 | IPODI Fellow, Sociology Department, TU-Berlin. Project New Borders. |
| May 2016-August 2019 | Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. |
| March 2013-March 2014 | Research Associate. Department of Social Policy and Criminology, Open University. |
| October 2013-May 2015 | Associate Lecturer. Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| March 2014 | PhD. ‘Structure Liberates?’: making compliant, consumable bodies in a neoliberal academy. Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| 2009 | MA Social Research. Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| 2002 | BA. Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
| Books |
| (2017) Kulz, C. Factories for Learning: making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy, Manchester: Manchester University Press. |
| Editor |
| (forthcoming 2020) Kulz, C., McGinity, R., and Morrin, K., eds. Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment, Manchester: Manchester University Press. |
| Peer-reviewed Articles |
| (forthcoming, 2020) Kulz, C. ‘Everyday erosions: neoliberal political rationality, democratic decline and the Multi-Academy Trust’ (submitted to Journal of Education Policy, currently in review). |
| (2018) Kulz, C. ‘Mapping folk devils old and new through permanent exclusion from London schools’, Race, Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2018.1497961. |
| (2015) ‘Heroic heads, mobility mythologies and the power of ambiguity’, in British Journal of Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2015.1044071 |
| (2014) “'Structure Liberates?': Mixing for mobility and the cultural transformation of 'urban children' |
| Book Chapter |
| (2015) Kulz, C. “'Structure Liberates?': Mixing for mobility and the cultural transformation of 'urban children' in a London Academy” in James, Malcolm, Helen Kim and Victoria Redclift eds. New racial landscapes, contemporary Britain and the neoliberal conjuncture. London: Routledge. |
| Research reports/ media |
| (2015) Kulz, C. Mapping the Exclusion Process: Inequality, Justice and the Business of Education, (London, Communities Empowerment Network). |
| (2014) Kulz, C. and Rashid, N. Education and the Prevent Agenda: Myth-making and the Limits of Freedom, Discover Society, www.discoversociety.org/2014/08/05/education-and-the-prevent-agenda-mythmaking-and-the-limits-of-freedom/. |
| (2014) Kulz, C. Academies and the neoliberal project: the lessons and costs of the conveyor belt, Open Democracy, www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/christy-kulz/academies-and-neoliberal-project-lessons-and-costs-of-conveyor-belt. |
| (2014) Kulz, C. ‘4,000 down, 20,000 to go’ – the academies drive gathers pace, The Conversation, theconversation.com/4-000-down-20-000-to-go-the-academies-drive-gathers-pace-26028. |
| (2011) Kulz, C. 'New Directions, New Voices: Emerging Research on Race and Ethnicity,’ Runnymede Trust publication. |