{"id":70135,"date":"2023-08-06T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T04:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&p=70135"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:06:20","slug":"anthony-abraham-jack","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/anthony-abraham-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Abraham Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and professor of higher education leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His scholarship appears in the Common Reader<\/em>, Du Bois Review<\/em>, Social Problems<\/em>, Sociological Forum<\/em>, and Sociology of Education<\/em> and has earned awards from the American Educational Studies Association, American Sociological Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Eastern Sociological Society, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Society of Professors of Education.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jack held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was a National Academy of Education\/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an Emerging Diversity Scholar. In 2020, Muhlenberg College awarded him an honorary doctorate and the National Head Start Association named him a BOLD Alumni Leader for his work in transforming higher education.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em>, the Boston Globe<\/em>, the Atlantic<\/em>, the New Yorker<\/em>, the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, the Nation<\/em>, American Conservative Magazine<\/em>, the National Review<\/em>, Teen Vouge<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em>, Vice, Vox, and NPR have featured Dr. Jack’s research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jack’s first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students<\/em><\/a>, was awarded the 2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, the 2019 CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship, and the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize and was also named a finalist for the 2019 C. Wright Mills Award and a NPR Book\u2019s Best Book of 2019. His second book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price<\/em><\/a>, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews;<\/em> was named a finalist for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Education from Foreword Reviews<\/em>; was longlisted for the 2025 Massachusetts Book of the Year by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; and was awarded the 2025 PROSE Award for Education Theory and Practice by the Association of American Publishers, the 2025 Critics\u2019 Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association, a 2026 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award, and a Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award.<\/p>\n

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