Abby Larson

Abby Larson is SSRC Research Associate for Knowledge Institutions.  In this capacity, Larson has co-organized with Richard Arum the planning and implementation of the Research Alliance for New York Schools, a new public good to facilitate independent empirically-driven research on public education.  Larson comes to SSRC and to the consortium project from an international background.  Her research has been sponsored in Argentina, France, Germany, England and the Balkans, where she has consulted organizations including the International Center for Transitional Justice, the European Union, and the Berlin Senate.  Larson studied at Oxford University and Stanford University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and a master's degree in the sociology of organizations (2000).  She is currently affiliated with New York University.