Dr. Kathryn Borman is Professor of Anthropology and is affiliated with the Alliance for Applied Research in Education and Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She received her doctorate in the Sociology of Education from the University of Minnesota in 1976, and has extensive experience in educational reform and policy as well as evaluation studies. She served as Principal Investigator of the NSF Project, Assessing the Impact of the National Science Foundation Urban Systemic Initiative, in which researchers assessed the systemic educational reform model in four cities. This study resulted in the authored SUNY Press book, Meaningful Urban Education Reform: Confronting the Learning Crisis in Mathematics and Science in 2005.

Most recently Dr. Borman and her colleagues are engaged in two projects: the US Department of Education-supported National Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform project (with American Institutes for Research and NORC) and an NSF-supported project investigating careers outcomes for youth entitled Understanding Factors that Sustain Science. Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Career Pathways.

Members of the Alliance lead by Dr. Borman are embarked upon a new four year US DOE-funded project entitled Replication and Outcomes of the Teaching SMART® Program in Elementary Science Classrooms involving a number of schools in a randomized experimental design with controls to assess the efficacy of the Teaching SMART® Program. Other recent projects include: consultant to the U. S. Department of Education and National School to Work Office, and Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF project, Addressing National Needs for Skilled Technical Graduates.

Dr. Borman has authored or edited more than 20 books, book chapters and series in areas involving educational policy and reform, and enjoys traveling extensively giving presentations on those topics. She has been a past editor of several journals over the last two decades including the American Educational Research Association journal, Review of Educational Research and she is the founding editor of both Educational Foundations and the International Journal of Educational Policy Research and Practice as well as a member of several editorial boards. Additionally, she has been involved in training graduate students for research and has taught a variety of courses including anthropology and education, and methods in qualitative analysis. Dr. Borman's curriculum vitae is available as a PDF file, here.

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