Assistant Professor, Sociology
Director of Educational Pathways and Faculty Development, Honors College
Contact Information
Biography
Blake R. Silver is Director of Educational Pathways & Faculty Development in the鈥疕onors College and Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He also serves as the Director of the鈥疎ducation & Health Research Hub鈥痠n the Center for Social Science Research.
Dr. Silver received a PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Fellow. His research focuses on culture, social stratification, and higher education, addressing questions about the role of colleges and universities in contesting and reproducing inequality.
His current projects examine college students' educational pathways, the senior-year transitions of second-generation immigrant students, and campus art and architecture. His research has been supported by the American Sociological Association, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, ACPA-College Student Educators International, the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, and the NASPA Foundation.
Dr. Silver's first book,鈥鈥(University of Chicago Press), explores how inequalities are reproduced as students pursue social inclusion on campus.
His forthcoming co-edited volume with Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron,鈥鈥(Cambridge University Press),鈥痺ill be published in spring 2024.
Dr. Silver's second book,鈥鈥(University of Chicago Press), is forthcoming in summer 2024. This book argues that students at public colleges and universities today confront rampant insecurity, amplified by common policies and practices employed by those institutions. Students encounter and manage this insecurity in very different ways, intensifying inequality at the intersections of socioeconomic status, race, gender, and other sociodemographic dimensions.
Selected Publications (Recent Articles and Book Chapters)
Silver, Blake R. 2024. 鈥.鈥浓赌Social Currents,鈥11(1), 61-79.
Farago, Fanni, and Blake R. Silver. 2023. 鈥.鈥 In Teniell Trolian and Eugene Parker, Eds.鈥Fostering Sustained Student-Faculty Engagement in Undergraduate Education, p. 128-145. New York: Routledge.
Silver, Blake R. 2023. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of First-generation Student Success,鈥3(2), 106-123.
Silver, Blake R., and Lily Krietzberg. 2023. 鈥.鈥浓赌Sociological Focus,鈥56(1), 1-19.
Silver, Blake R., Freddy Lopez, Fanni Farago, and Tharuna Kalaivanan. 2022. 鈥.鈥浓赌Qualitative Sociology, 45(1), 123-147.
Roksa, Josipa, Blake R. Silver, and Yapeng Wang. 2022. 鈥.鈥 In Nicholas Bowman, Ed.鈥How College Students Succeed: Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives, p. 179-207. Stylus.
Kalaivanan, Tharuna, Lily Krietzberg, Blake R. Silver, and Bianca Kwan. 2022. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 15(1), 21-40.
Roksa, Josipa, and Blake R. Silver. 2021. 鈥.鈥 In Kimberley Kinsley and Robert Rycroft, Eds.鈥Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, p. 95-106. Greenwood, ABC-CLIO.
Silver, Blake R., Lily Krietzberg, and Tharuna Kalaivanan. 2021. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 33(2), 9-27.
Silver, Blake R., Freddy Lopez, Tharuna Kalaivanan, and Lily Krietzberg. 2021. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 58(4), 388-400.
Silver, Blake R. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Sociological Forum, 35(4), 1290-1314.
Silver, Blake R. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 13(3), 233-250.
Henderson, Lora, Blake R. Silver, Leslie Booren, Sara Rimm-Kaufman, and James Wyckoff. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of College Student Development, 61(5) 663-666.
Silver, Blake R., Tharuna Kalaivanan, Lily Krietzberg, and Jordan Hawkins. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of College Student Development, 61(5) 558-573.
Roksa, Josipa, Blake R. Silver, Denise Deutschlander, and Sarah Whitley. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Sociological Forum, 35(3) 565-586.
Silver, Blake R. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 49(2): 147-175.
Silver, Blake R. 2020. 鈥.鈥浓赌Sociological Focus,鈥53(2): 190-206.
Roksa, Josipa, and Blake R. Silver. 2019. 鈥.鈥浓赌Review of Higher Education, 42(3): 1051-1071.
Arum, Richard, Josipa Roksa, Jacqueline Cruz, and Blake R. Silver. 2018. "." In Barbara Schneider (Ed.),鈥Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century,鈥痯p. 385-403. Springer.
Silver, Blake R. and Josipa Roksa. 2017. "."鈥Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 54(3): 248-260.
Grants and Fellowships
ACPA Foundation Research Grant. 鈥淟ayered Transitions: First-Generation College Seniors from Immigrant Families.鈥 PI: Blake Silver; Key Personnel: Tharuna Kalaivanan, Fanni Farago, and Kellie Wilkerson (09/2022-08/2023).鈥
American Sociological Association. Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant. 鈥淟abor Market Precarity and Higher Education.鈥 PI: Blake Silver (11/2020-03/2022).
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Paul P. Fidler Research Grant. "Transitioning OUT: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students鈥 Experiences in the Senior Year." PI: Blake Silver (10/2019-10/2021).
NASPA Region III, Research Grant. "Gender, First-Generation American Students, and the Senior-Year Transition." PI: Blake Silver (08/2018-12/2019).
The NASPA Foundation, Channing Briggs Small Research Grant. 鈥淣avigating the Senior Year Transition: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of First-Generation American Students.鈥 PI: Blake Silver (10/2015-10/2016).
Courses Taught
The Individual and Society
Culture and Social Inequality
Higher Education and Society
Research Methods
Social Inequality and the Self
The Transition to Adulthood
Ethnography, Place, and Community
Education in Contemporary Society
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Virginia
MA, Sociology, University of Virginia
MA, Higher Education, George Washington University
BA, English, 麻豆视频