Judith Kafka

Judith Kafka is Associate Professor of educational policy and history of education in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, where she is the Faculty Director for the Bachelor of Science in Public Affairs program. Dr. Kafka is also consortial faculty at the Graduate Center in Urban Education.  Her research focuses on urban education and the historical roots of current educational policies and practices. Dr. Kafka is particularly interested in the ways in which public education serves to both interrupt and reinforce social and economic inequalities in the United States. Her current project explores historical structural and spatial dimensions of educational inequality in the borough of Brooklyn.