Jamie Lew, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Education

Institution: Rutgers University—Newark
Phone: 973-353-3534
Email: jamielew@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Education

PhD, Comparative Education and Sociology, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lew's research focuses on urban education, immigration, race and ethnicity, as well as comparative education and policy. She is particularly interested in education of Asian American children in urban context. She is the author of Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap Among Korean American Youths. (Teachers College Press, 2006). By examining both high- and low-achieving Korean American students, this book examines how stratifying forces of class, race, and schools impact academic achievement among 1.5- and second-generation Asian American youths in urban schools.

She is a faculty member of the PhD American Studies Program as well as the PhD Urban Systems Program-a joint program with Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). She is also a faculty affiliate of Center for Global Change and Governance, Sociology, Urban Studies, Women Studies, as well as the Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and the Institute on Education Law and Policy.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Lew, J. (2006). Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap Among Korean American Youth. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Selected Publications

• Lew, J. (2007). "A Structural Analysis of Success and Failure of Asian Americans: A Case of Korean Americans in Urban Schools," Teachers College Record, Vol. 109 (2), 369-390.
• Lew, J. (2007). "Asian American Identities: Intersection of Class, Race, Schools," In A.R. Sadovnik, The Sociology of Education Reader. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Lew, J. (2006). "Burden of Acting Neither White nor Black: Asian American Identities and Achievement in Urban Schools," The Urban Review, Vol. 38(5), 335-352.
• Lew, J. (2004). "The 'Other' Story of Model Minorities: Korean American High School Dropouts in an Urban Context," Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Vol. 35 (3), 297- 311.
• Lew, J. (2003). "Korean American High School Dropouts: A Case Study of Their Experiences and Negotiations of Schooling, Family, and Communities," In Sue Books, (Ed.), Invisible Children in the Society and its Schools, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 53-66.
• Lew, J. (2003). "(Re) Construction of Second-Generation Ethnic Networks: Structuring Academic Success of Korean American High School Students," In C. C. Parks, S. J. Lee and A. L. Goodwin (Eds.), Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans, Vol. II. Information Age Publishing, pp. 157-176.
• Johnson H. & Lew, J. (2005). "Learning to Talk: Reflections on the First-Year Faculty Seminar," In M. F. Holzer and S. Noppe-Brandon (Eds.), Community in the Making: Lincoln Center Institute, the Arts, and Teacher Education, Teachers College Press, pp. 77-86.

COURSES TAUGHT AT RUTGERS

Graduate Courses

• Sociology of Urban Education
• Urban Systems III: Globalization, Migration, and Contemporary Cities

Undergraduate Courses

• Issues in Urban Education
• Teaching in Urban Schools
• Topics in Education
• Honors College Seminar: Asian American Studies
• Topical Issues in Sociology: Asian American Studies
• Topical Issues in Sociology: Contemporary Asian American Populations and Communities

Revised June 20, 2007